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EU ambassador to Russia warns against supplying arms to Ukraine

The European Union‘s (EU) Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas says that supplying arms to Ukraine would be a risky step, given the possible response on the Russian part. […]

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Opinion

Opinion: Is America losing the information war?

It would be hard to imagine Athenian generals worrying about the reporting of Spartan news or even, twenty-four centuries later, Douglas MacArthur caring much about media broadcasts from the land of the rising sun. But when General Philip Breedlove, the Supreme Commander of NATO, recently called on the West to make a greater effort to counter Russia’s toxic war of disinformation against Ukraine and its western allies, his concern made perfect military sense. In a world in which the dissemination of information is a key tactical element in violent conflicts, the West and America have remained far too passive in confronting both the insidious campaign of lies on Russian state-controlled media and the notoriously effective internet recruitment efforts of terrorist groups. […]

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Society

KTU M-Lab: interaction between science, technology and art

To create something that does not exist yet. To foresee future problems and to find solutions to them today. This ambitious goal is a main motivator behind the concept of unique in Europe media lab which is being developed by Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) together with partners. KTU’s M-Lab will focus on research on human and nature interactions. […]

Economy

Lithuanians discovering tourism in their own country

Last year, almost each Lithuanian at least once was touring in Lithuania – during 2014 a total of 2.6 million travels of Lithuanians in the country was counted, by 2.3 percent more than in 2013, the State Tourism Department (VTD) said. […]