Riga Conference 2017
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The Rīga Conference 2017 Live Stream

On 29–30 September, the National Library of Latvia in Rīga is hosting an annual international forum called The Rīga Conference 2017, which is dedicated to foreign policy and security matters. The conference is organised by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence. […]

Proud of Lithuania: A Fairy Tale by Sweet Root
Freetime

Sweet Root book will make you proud of Lithuania’s gastronomic history

Proud of Lithuania: A Fairy Tale by Sweet Root is a new book that encourages readers to take pride in Lithuania through its ancient gastronomy. “This story that begins at the dinner table, on a plate full of magical flavors, tastes, emotions, and memories, in the rough woods of our little country, called Lithuania. In its bright fields and cold blue rivers. In its soil and lakes. From the soil up to the sky. At a time when our life narrative was formed by a chain of connected happenings: birth, maturation, death, and rebirth of nature.” So begins the new book Proud of Lithuania: A Fairy Tale by Sweet Root. […]

Gintarė Narkevičiūtė at the IFS Conference in 2016
Economy

Lithuanian business woman becomes a member of Istanbul Finance Summit board

How our future finances will look like? The 8th Istanbul Finance Summit will be held at Hilton Bomonti Hotel—Istanbul, between 27 – 28 September 2017, and will answer any concerning questions by offering great insights of what’s coming. Lithuanian business woman, CEO and Co-founder of Nexus Operations, Ltd., Gintarė Narkevičiūtė is invited to take a part for the second time. […]

Project Path of Yarn
Culture

Linen and wool revival has been a success!

The international Lithuanian-Norwegian project Making and Growing – Traditions between Fibre & Fabric has reached its goal of breathing new life into the old crafts. “We’ve helped the modern human to reconnect with the undeservingly forgotten craft of processing linen and wool which provided food and warmth for our ancestors. Weaving is encoded in the genes of Lithuanians; I was assured of this when I saw how remarkably modern fellow-countrymen were using a spinning wheel at the live exhibition, even though it was the first attempt in their lives,” cheers the project’s implementer and President of the Fine Crafts Association of Vilnius Indrė Rutkauskaitė. […]