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Culture

Gems of Lithuanian cinema to screen in Wrocław Film Festival

The 15th T-Mobile New Horizons film festival opens in Wrocław on July 23. Among other films it will feature the most distinct Lithuanian films created from 1959 to 2015. The special film programme Focus on Lithuania includes a record number of 30 features tracing the complex history and culture of the country during the Soviet period, the path to independence, and the decades of sovereignty. […]

Society

Hundreds mark anniversary of Welles Declaration in Vilnius

About 300 people celebrated the 75-year anniversary of the US declaration that condemned the half-century occupation of the Baltic states. […]

Laurynas Grigelis
Sports

Grigelis advances to semifinals of President’s Cup

Lithuanian tennis player Laurynas Grigelis already in the quarterfinals of the international ITF tournament in Vilnius, the President’s Cup. He is he only Lithuanian to stay in the singles tournament. Two Lithuanian pairs will fight for the tickets to the finals. […]

John Kerry
Foreign affairs

John Kerry: American people greet Baltic friends

The United States remembers the 75-year-old Welles Declaration as “an indelible sign of our shared commitment to freedom, sovereignty, and territorial integrity”, United States Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday. […]

Projektas „Because it's Panevežys, dude“
Economy

Danish robotics company looking into setting up excellence centre in Panevėžys

On 15 July, John Erland Østergaard, the founder and director of the Danish company Blue Ocean Robotics, and Thomas Solupajev-Ronlev, partner in the company’s Lithuanian subsidiary, paid their third visit to Panevėžys. During their previous visits the businessmen visited the robotics laboratory of the Panevėžys Faculty of Kaunas University of Technology, Panevėžys Mechatronics Centre, and introduced their company to the city’s mayor and other politicians. […]

Sigutė Jakštonytė
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian president hands credentials to first ambassador to South Africa

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday handed letters of credence to Sigutė Jakštonytė, the country’s first ambassador to the Republic of South Africa. […]