Year: 2018

A. Guoga on CNN's Quest Means Business
Foreign affairs

Millions around the world support initiative urging Amazon to scrap goods with Soviet symbols

November 28, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

The terrible Soviet crimes against occupied Baltic nations and ignorant attitude towards history were discussed and broadcasted to a wide international audience on Thanksgiving. The programme on CNN was about insensitivity showed by Jeff Bezos and his Amazon Inc. to millions upon millions of Soviet crimes victims and their descendants. The #WhyNotSwastika campaign started after the Baltic States’ people discovered that the most popular American retail companies are selling goods with Soviet symbols. Some responded to it but the retail giant Amazon has ignored this plea so far. […]

Rolandas Kvietkauskas, Head of Lithuanian Film Centre
Economy

Lithuanian film tax incentive to be increased to 30%

November 28, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

Yesterday in Tallinn, during a special presentation at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, Rolandas Kvietkauskas, the director of the Lithuanian Film Centre, presented to the international film community the results and future outlook of the government’s tax incentive for film production in Lithuania – the national tax incentive will rise to 30% in 2019. Kvietkauskas and producer Gabija Siurbytė (Dansu Films) discussed cases of successful tax incentive use, the scheme’s future prospects and important details filmmakers should know about the measure. […]

Mindaugas Jurkynas
CORPORATE

Mindaugas Jurkynas. Not waiting for Godot: Lithuania and Poland tomorrow

November 28, 2018 Mindaugas Jurkynas 0

Last month, the seventh Lithuanian and Polish policy and foreign affairs expert meeting was held in Birštonas. […]

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History

Sorcery and witchcraft in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

November 28, 2018 Domininkas Burba 0

Even though there was no Inquisition in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, witch processes and trials were known to be held as a continuous practice. Witch trials were judged by secular courts such as the gentry court (the castle and the land) and the town court (that of the reeve and the magistrate). This process in GDL was undertaken on a significantly smaller scale than in the countries of West Europe. […]

Virginijus Sinkevičius
CORPORATE

“Farmers” bring out their secret weapon in the Vilnius mayor elections

November 28, 2018 Media Briefing 0

Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) deputy chairman, Minister of Economy Virginijus Sinkevičius confirmed to lrt.lt that part of the LVŽS Vilnius city branch has offered him to run for Vilnius mayor in next year’s municipal elections. V. Sinkevičius has not yet revealed whether he would like to participate in the elections, however he assures that the office of minister of finance would not preclude him from being a candidate, lrt.lt writes. […]

Lithuanian ambassador to the EU Jovita Neliupšienė
European Union

Agreement on EU’s next multiannual budget before mid-2019 tough to achieve: Lithuanian diplomat to EU

November 28, 2018 Xinhua 0

The European Union is facing tense negotiations on its next multiannual budget, and the goal to reach the agreement before the next European elections might be challenging to achieve due to various factors including Brexit, Jovita Neliupšienė, Lithuania’s ambassador to the EU, said on Tuesday. […]

Electronic banking
Cyber security

Safe electronic banking: how to protect your account from fraudsters?

November 28, 2018 Tomas Janckus 0

Today, we cannot imagine our lives without being able to pay for goods and services with our card or through electronic banking. Making financial transactions has become much easier and faster. Do these improvements come at a cost of security? Below, Tomas Stamulis, the Information Security Management Team Lead at ATEA, describes the fundamentals of security in electronic banking. […]

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Economy

NKT to grow its IoT team in Kaunas

November 27, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

NKT, a leading global power cable manufacturer, and THINKT, an innovation hub backed by the Danish company, are bringing their joint competencies to Kaunas where they are establishing a digital project development team. The new site will collaborate with the THINKT hub in Berlin to support and develop new projects for the energy industry, a press release from Invest Lithuania states. […]

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Society

No clear statistics on number of cases and form of violence against children

November 27, 2018 Media Briefing 0

With Lithuania continuously shocked by cases of violence against children, there is no accurate statistics on how many children have suffered and from what form of violence. This is because the information is gathered in differing databases and there is no compilation of the data. The Seimas Suicide and Violence Prevention Commission has proposed to start compiling such figures because statistics could help better establish whether current legislation works and the frequency and form of violence, lrt.lt writes. […]

Vilnius Airport
Economy

LOT wins contest for business flights from Vilnius to London

November 27, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

From the spring of the next year, LOT Polish Airlines will be flying passengers from Vilnius to one of the world’s largest financial centres in London City, after winning the international public contest of Lithuanian Airports. The purpose of this unique contest was to remove the geographical barrier between the business communities of Lithuania and the United Kingdom, and help promote investment, a press release from Lithuanian Airports states. […]

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Economy

Will more bitcoins appear on Lithuanians’ Christmas gift list during “Brexit”?

November 27, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

Emigrants living in the UK heavily influence Lithuania’s annual flow of foreign income. However, in the recent years, remittances from Great Britain have been steadily declining. This is largely influenced by the effects of political processes – over the course of three years, the exchange rate of the pound to euro has appreciably depreciated. Lithuanians must look for ways to protect the money they earned – they are increasingly interested in investment opportunities, including bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies, a press release from Luno states. […]

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History

Burning the dead in XIV century Grand Duchy of Lithuania

November 27, 2018 Gintautas Velius 0

Up until the official Christening of Lithuania in 1387, the custom of burning the dead prevailed in the Baltic territory. Cremation was not prevalent merely in the lands accommodated by the Samogitiams and Semigallians. By that time, the Baltic tribes had been living surrounded by the Christian states for more than a century. As a result, urban polyethnic communities of a new type were being established, the views on afterlife of which were to a large extent influenced by the Christian neighbours. […]

Society

About 300 people in Lithuania may not be aware that they are infected with HIV

November 27, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

In Lithuania more than 90% people living with HIV are aware of their HIV status. By this indicator, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Lithuania is among the most advanced in Europe. According to the latest data from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, the average for this indicator in Europe is 80%. According to UNAIDS, the global average is 75%, i.e. a quarter of the people with HIV do not know that they are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, a press release from the Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS states. […]