Riga
Foreign affairs

The Rīga Conference 2018 – One week countdown

On the 28th and 29th of September at the Latvian National Library in Riga, politicians and world experts on politics and international relations will gather together to discuss the most pressing security and political issues on the regional and global level, a press release from the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation states. […]

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Society

Names of Holocaust victims to be read out in Seimas

Names of the Holocaust victims will be read out in the Lithuanian parliament on Monday to mark the National Memorial Day for the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews and in support of a civic initiative, Names. […]

Pope Francis arrives at the Cathedral Sq in Vilnius to meet tens of thousands of young people
Society

Pope urges young Lithuanians ‘to swim against current of individualism’

Pope Francis on Sunday called on young Lithuanians to have the courage “to swim against the current of individualism” and to reach out to those close to them. […]

Pope Francis and President Grybauskaitė at the Vilnius Airport
Foreign affairs

Pope Francis arrived in Lithuania for historic visit

Pope Francis has landed in Lithuania on Saturday at the start of his four-day Baltic tour during which he will show respect to the three nations’ independence and pay homage to the victims of the Nazi and Soviet regimes. […]

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LIGHT

36 years after the first emoji: five facts you may not know

Exactly 36 years ago today, an American professor and computer scientist Scott Fahlman used a smiley symbol – ‘:-)’ for the first time in an electronic message. He also used another well-known symbol – ‘:-(’. By using these symbols, the professor sought to distinguish which messages were of serious content and which were meant as a joke. Scott Fahlman most probably didn’t realise at the time just how much interest the symbols would later attract. More and more emojis emerged, and today no digital communication can be imagined without them. So, on the occasion of the birthday of the first emoji, Bitės Profai offer an opportunity to see for yourself just how big the emoji world is, and possibly learn some interesting facts you didn’t know before, a press release from Bitė states. […]

Rolandas Paksas
Politics

Prosecutor charges Paksas of agreeing to take bribe for his party

The public prosecutor in the influence peddling trial of Rolandas Paksas and Gedvydas Vainauskas, CEO of the media group Lietuvos Rytas, says that the former Order and Justice leader agreed to accept a bribe not only for his own benefit, but also for the benefit of his party. […]