Rusijos fighter MiG-29K
Defence

NATO fighter-jets last week scrambled 3 times from Lithuania over Russian warplanes

NATO air-policing fighter-jets were last week scrambled three times from Lithuania to identify and intercept Russian warplanes flying in the international airspace, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said on Monday. […]

Šarūnas Bartas
Culture

Lithuanian film festival Šeršėliafam excludes movie with Bartas from opening night

Organizers of the film festival Šeršėliafam have decided to exclude the movie featuring Šarūnas Bartas, the film director under the suspicion of sexual harassment, from the opening night, delfi.lt news portal said on Friday. […]

Filming set in Didžiasalis
Culture

Mini series filmed in Lithuania nominated for Emmy

A five-part historical drama Tokyo Trial that has been filmed in Lithuania was nominated for an Emmy award in the category of mini series. […]

Šlyninkos watermill in Zarasai region
History

Lithuanian watermills in the 15th and 16th century: a slow technological revolution

Ancient civilisations already knew how to use the energy of running water, but it was the Western European civilisation that developed a vast network of watermills during the Middle Ages. The abundance of swift-running rivers and constant increase of crop areas in Europe were the two important factors behind the spread of watermills that eventually got involved in various technological processes, including smithing, papermaking, wood processing and groundwater regulation. In technical sense, history of Western watermills apparently developed independently from the experience of other civilisations, although the initial impulses might have arrived from elsewhere. […]