Sworn Apple aficionados often spend hours queuing at Apple stores before the launch of a new product. The new iPhone 6s, which hit the shelves on Friday, had buyers crowd all night to be the first ones to leave with the new gadget. The lucky first customer at the Apple store in Manhattan was a girl from Vilnius. […]
Current times in Eastern Europe can hardly be seen as a blessing. With the region more destabilized than ever, not only the economies of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the surrounding countries suffer, but also the image of Eastern Europe has been in downfall lately. However, for someone these problems in the region might be coming at a perfect time. […]
Lithuania’s defence budget should expand by more than a third in 2016, according to the budget draft published on Monday. […]
Constructions of military infrastructure necessary for installation of new long-range radars and contracted for by the Lithuanian Armed Forces begins in the 1st (Antaversis village, Prienai district) and the 3rd (Degučiai village, Šilutė district) radiolocation posts of the Lithuanian Air Force, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
In light of the situation in Ukraine, it is “very hard” the believe the sincerity of Russia‘s statements about peace initiatives in the Middle East, says Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė attending events of the United Nations (UN) in New York. […]
On Sunday, millions of people at the Papal Mass in Philadelphia and around the world heard a new composition by Julian Darius Revie, a Canadian Lithuanian. The piece was heard as Pope Francis received Communion. Revie’s “The Love of God” was performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra and the 350-voice children’s chorus and massed choir. This performance follows Revie’s recent premiere of another original composition, “Mass of the Divine Shepherd,” at Carnegie Hall this past June. […]
On 24 September, representatives of the British, Jewish and Lithuanian communities in the United Kingdom as well as members of parliament and foreign diplomats residing in London gathered at the Embassy to commemorate the victims of the Shoah in Lithuania, the Embassy reports. […]
Lithuanian airports announced a public tender regarding the advisory services for the concession project. The consultant is expected to advice on all financial, tax, legal and technical issues arising in the drafting of the concession project. It is planned that Lithuanian airports will commence work with the selected consultant from Lithuania or abroad starting with January next year, Vilnius Airport reports. […]
Lithuania has not passed any amendments to worsen the conditions for ethnic minorities to study in their native language, Lithuania’s Education and Science Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė has said in a letter to her Polish counterpart. […]
Lithuania’s Tourism Department has suspended operations of a tour operator, making it the second tourism agency to lose license this year. […]
After a successful experiment at the first session it was decided that each week’s session would start with an intriguing article from a different prewar Vilna Yiddish newspaper. In addition to reading from the photocopies provided, participants will be able to view the original newspaper. The session, which lasts an hour-and-a-half total, will then move on to the literary text being read. This Sunday the circle will start reading a humorous text by Der Túnkeler, “The Dark One,” pseudonym of Joseph Tunkel (1881 – 1949), a Litvak Yiddish humorist born in Bobruisk, now in Belarus. […]
TechCrunch, one of the most popular technology portals, has named 30 women who have conquered the technology industry. Among them is Alisa Matsanyuk, the founder of leading mobile game developer Game Insight and recently opened maker space Green Garage. […]
Lithuanian political parties received EUR 8.4 million in funds last year, according to the country’s statistics department, Statistics Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian Environment Ministry has started a probe to find out how many Volkswagen cars equipped with software designed to cheat emissions tests there are in the country and what sanctions could be imposed on the German carmaker. […]
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