Paper mills, their key characteristic being the use of water energy, were an important element of the technology revolution. The production of paper, which replaced parchment, encouraged the spread of literacy and book reading, because the price of paper could sometimes account to as much as half of all costs of printed materials. […]
One out of three members of the Seimas made public information about their meetings with organizations and registered lobbyists during the Lithuanian parliament’s past spring session, Transparency International Lithuania said on Wednesday after analyzing parliamentarians’ official calendars and personal websites. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee will Wednesday hear information about the regional security information from the State Security Department and the Second Investigations Department ahead of the Russian-Belarusian Zapad 2017 exercise due to kick off next week. […]
Remaining and underground remains of the Vilnius Great Synagogue have been listed in the register of cultural values, Lithuania’s Cultural Heritage Department said on Tuesday. […]
Moscow denied on Tuesday that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had in 2010 submitted a list of demands to Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he has secured firm Polish support to synchronization of electricity grid with Western Europe via the existing power link, however, the remaining two Baltic states are still doubtful about the possibility. […]
Panevėžio Statybos Trestas (PST), one of Lithuania’s largest construction companies, will renovate the Lithuanian Embassy to Moscow. […]
Poland‘s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has pledged to take into consideration Lithuania’s objections before the government decides on illustration of Polish passports with images of the Vilnius Gate of Dawn. […]
“I honestly have to say that I also feel sorry for those trees. When I was a child I would gather chestnuts here on my way to school,” Kaunas mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis says, commenting about […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, currently on a visit in Poland, says he sees a good possibility to improve the bilateral relations, which are, in his opinion, marred by the wrong stereotypes over the situation of national minorities. […]
The Farmer and Greens have been composing a political plotline which has been competing for the viewers’ attention for almost a year now. Intrigue, love, comedy and tear-jerking situations were featured. Unfortunately despite the tense […]
A task force set up by the Lithuanian minister of health has prepared a draft to legalize outdoor daycare centers, submitting the draft to other relevant institutions for further discussions. […]
The governmental Extreme Situations Commission decided after a meeting at the Interior Ministry on Tuesday that institutions in charge of civil safety would work under a usual regime during the upcoming Russian-Belarusian Zapad 2017 training. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, currently on a visit in Poland, says he sees possibilities for a Polish retail chain to come to the Baltic state. […]
Pre-Christian Lithuania was a land of oral culture. Peter of Dusburg, the chronicler of the German Order, retold an ironic joke in the early 14th century about the pagans gazing at written characters for the first time: “[Prussians] did not use writing /…/ They were completely amazed to find out that a human was able to convey his wishes to another person, who was not here, through writing.” If we leave the theories about “Lithuanian runes” aside as legends, we can safely assume that Lithuanians did not use writing for communication between themselves until the late 14th century. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis met with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party, in Warsaw on Monday night. […]
Plans to perform the Belarusian-produced ballet Vytautas (Vitaut) in Vilnius next January and link it to the official program for celebrations of the centenary of the restoration of Lithuania’s statehood is a demonstration of soft power and provocation, Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson said. […]
The Lithuanian government signed on Monday the first cooperation agreement with the Order of Malta, which has been carrying out charitable activities in the country for more that two decades now. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that strategic state-owned enterprises will not be privatized, but adds that some problem companies could be partially privatized by listing their shares on the stock market. […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accepted an invitation from Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius to visit Lithuania, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said. […]
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