Lithuanian game developers who participated in AppCampus, Microsoft and Aalto University’s global mobile applications business accelerator programme, have been more successful than their counterparts from the other Baltic States. Ten Lithuanian projects have received funding for further activity since the start of AppCampus in 2012. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday it had allocated EUR 30,000 for a project of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Ukraine. […]
TV rebroadcaster Viasat plans to halt the broadcasting of Russian TV channels if the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania decides to ban rebroadcasting of such channels, the company’s CEO for the Baltic countries and Finland said on Monday. […]
As the saying goes, a pessimist is just a well-informed optimist. Russia‘s president is able to get any kind of information, but this is not enough: it is important how this information is processed and used. One can judge from Vladimir Putin‘s 3 hours and 10 minutes long press conference, where he answered 53 questions, that his mind is protected from reality by a very dense sieve which only lets through information that he anticipates. The rest is rejected or modified in such a way that it becomes unrecognisable. […]
On Monday, 22 December, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius received representatives of the World Lithuanian Youth Association (PLJS). The prime minister together with Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas answered questions of the participants of the meeting and discussed issues like defence funding, the search for new markets and the Lithuanian Innovation Development Programme for 2014-2020. […]
The 16th annual awarding of St. Christopher’s statues took place at Vilnius Town Hall on 18 December. The statutes, which are the highest honour awarded by Vilnius Municipality, were presented to the city’s most deserving people and businesses. At the ceremony, the foreign investment development agency Invest Lithuania was awarded for its professionalism and for attracting foreign investment to Vilnius, the agency said. […]
Ukraine expects that the Lithuanians appointed to its government will help the country implement key reforms, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Lithuania Valery Zhovtenko said on Monday. […]
The news agency Bloomberg has included the Baltic states in the list of places in the world where geopolitical tensions could run high next year. […]
The first shipment of the Polish-made air-defence missile systems GROM have arrived in Lithuania, the Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]
Lithuania’s Interior Ministry has suggested instituting criminal liability for unfair influence on sports results. […]
On 20 December, the Council of the Labour Party confirmed the final list of their candidates in the direct mayoral elections. According to Vytautas Gapšys, head of the party’s electoral staff, the Labour Party will be vying for 56 mayoral posts and expects to win more than 10 of them. […]
Fighter-jets of the NATO air-policing mission guarding the Baltic skies were last week scrambled once to identify and escort an aircraft of the Russian Federation. […]
In an annual press conference held on 18 December, Linas Linkevičius, Lithuanian minister of foreign affairs, summarized his priority activities of 2014. These included deepening of relations with EU Eastern partners, consistent support to Ukraine, active membership of the UN Security Council and economic diplomacy efforts. […]
With just days left before Christmas and everyone feverishly trying to finish up on their end-of-the-year errands, one is sometimes hard-pressed to find reasons to smile. A Lithuanian photographer has come up with an idea to change that. He has decided to dress up as Santa Claus and take snapshots of people eating their lunch in the central street of Vilnius. […]
The Board of the Seimas of Lithuania has canceled a trip of three lawmakers to Taiwan to avoid angering China. The move follows Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius’ recent meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Serbia. […]
Internet usage has become very widespread amongst the EU population, and not only are more and more people using the internet, but they also use it more and more often, with almost two-thirds (65 percent) of individuals aged 16 to 74 in the European Union using the internet daily in 2014, compared with less than a third (31 percent) in 2006. During the same period, the percentage of individuals in the EU that have never used the internet dropped from 43 percent in 2006 to 18 percent in 2014, Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU announced. […]
Statistics Lithuania announced that in the third quarter of 2014, compared with the second quarter of 2014, the price of transportation via pipelines services increased the most, by 22.2 percent, followed by sea and coastal transport services, by 3.1 percent, security and investigation activities, by 2.1 percent. […]
Vilnius University has opened a modern laser complex Naglis at the Laser Research Centre, the university said. […]
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