Efraim Zuroff, Rūta Vanagaitė
Opinion

Vanagaitė confesses about her new relationship: her new significant other is the well-known Nazi hunter E. Zuroff

Rūta Vanagaitė was accompanied by Efraim Zuroff to the signing of her autobiography Višta Strimelės Galva on Thursday evening in Vilnius. R. Vanagaitė admitted to DELFI her one year long relationship with the Simon Wiesenthal centre’s director and so-called angriest nazi hunter E. Zuroff. […]

Brain tomography
Society

CNS awards Lithuanian Professor for paradigm shift in neurology

The paper based on the study undertaken by the team of Lithuanian researchers was bestowed Paper of the Year award by The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), USA. The paper “Association of Severe TBI Patients’ Outcomes with Duration of Cerebrovascular Autoregulation Impairment Events” was awarded in Neurotrauma & Critical Care section. Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Professor Arminas Ragauskas was granted the award during the annual meeting of the Congress in Boston. […]

Road Safety Seminar in Vilnius   Photo © Ludo Segers @ The Lithuania Tribune
Society

The Zero Road Fatalities challenge for Lithuania

Lithuania has come a long way from being one of the most hazardous road environments in the EU. Road fatalities have decreased substantially over the last 10 years. However, there is still a lot of room for improvement. Education and enforcement contribute to overall safety. The main factors to achieve safe roads are road design and reshaping human behaviour. Particularly speed, alcohol and risky driving styles contribute to road fatalities, no surprises. […]

Darius Jauniškis
Defence

Lithuanian security chief: We must avoid hysteria when discussing threats

Darius Jauniškis, the director of the Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD), says that intelligence agencies are increasingly open to communication with the public as they cannot remain invisible services in this information age. […]

Beer
Economy

Producers, media searching for solutions over alcohol ad ban

After en forcement of full ban on alcohol advertisement in Lithuania starting next year, producers intend to search for new ways of presenting their production to consumers, while local media, which generates a large share of income from such advertisement, has reconciled with the loss. […]

Lithuanian charity ball in London in 2016
Global LT

Lithuanian business community of Britain to organise annual Charity Ball in London

The Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom (LCCUK) is continuing its tradition of supporting vulnerable social groups and on 17 November 2017, together with the Embassy of Lithuania in the UK, is inviting Lithuanian and foreign guests to a Charity Ball supported by the former Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus. The event, hosted in the Lancaster Ballroom of the Savoy Hotel, one of London’s grandest and most glamorous settings, overlooking the river Thames, will be raising money for the Charitable Foundation of Vilnius University Children’s Hospital. […]

Computers
Economy

Luxembourg wants to cooperate with Lithuania in telecoms, finance, IT

Luxembourg wants to cooperate with Lithuania in the areas of telecommunications, information and finance technologies, satellites and logistics, Grand Duke Henri said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]