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Economy

The biggest blockchain conference in Lithuania’s history starts this week

Hundreds of entrepreneurs, business leaders, and cryptocurrency pioneers will arrive at the The Pillar Unconference 2018, the biggest blockchain conference in Lithuania’s history. The conference guests will cover such topics as ICO perspectives, blockchain security, legal regulation, usage, and expansion possibilities, data security, and many others, a press release from the conference organisers states. […]

Robotics Competition Centre at MINTIS Gymnasium
Society

The City of Panevėžys sets up Robotics Competition Centre

“The establishment of the new centre will provide more possibilities for the pupils from the region to acquire the basic knowledge about robotics, to take part in competitions, to develop the skills of creativity, logical thinking, team work, engineering competences, to organise and participate in regional, national and international world standard competitions,” – says the Deputy Mayor Aleksas Varna in a press release from the city municipality. […]

Global LT

Experience of a Lithuanian working in Silicon Valley: what actually happens in the cradle of innovation?

Many people all over the world believe that working in a company based in Silicon Valley is the dream of a lifetime. Giedrė Pociūtė, referring to herself as a citizen of the world, not only dreams the dream but also purposefully pursues her goals. This graduate of Vilnius University Business School leads her life as if no boundaries or rules exist and now openly shares her not-so-easy daily life in the world’s cradle of information technologies, a press release from the business school states. […]

LIGHT

Customers are satisfying their hunger for English books

Interest in books is on the rise, according to sales figures from Lithuanian retail chain “Maxima”. Customers purchased more than 1.2 million books in 2017, and the most intense demand for books in recent years was recorded in the first half of this year. The main reason for this trend is that books written or translated into English are immediately selling out, a press release from the retail chain states. […]

Vytautas Bakas
Politics

Security panel chair expects Seimas to hold hearings on energy in fall

Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), expects the Seimas to hold hearings in the fall on whether the country’s key energy projects are in line with its national security interests. […]

Economy

Lithuania sells grain directly to Saudi Arabia for the first time in history

On July 16, Saudi Arabia‘s state grain buyer, the Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO) bought 115 thousand tons of Lithuanian wheat through an international tender from the Lithuanian grain trade company Agrorodeo. The Lithuanian capital company Agrorodeo is the first in the Baltic States to directly sell grain to Saudi Arabia through an international tender, a press release from the company states. […]

Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
Energy

Lithuania seeks EU funding for dismantling of Ignalina reactors – energy minister

Lithuania is seeking to secure all necessary funding for the dismantling of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant‘s reactors and the government is now asking the European Commission for more funds to ensure that works are not interrupted during the switchover from one EU budget period to another, Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas said on Tuesday. […]