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Foreign affairs

Lithuania will honour the centenaries of Finnish, Estonian, Polish and Latvian independence

November 22, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

At the initiative of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis the cabinet decided to raise the Lithuanian state flag in honour of the centenaries of Estonian, Latvian, Polish and Finnish independences. It was also recommended to raise the flag of the centenarian country on the day of the jubilee next to the Lithuanian state flag at the main state institutions – the Seimas, Presidential Palace and cabinet building. […]

VU student team Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM
Society

Vilnius university team wins the Grand Prize in iGEM competition

November 15, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

“Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM” team won the largest, most prestigious, international Synthetic Biology competition iGEM. Vilnius University students bested more than 300 teams from leading world universities. The team won the Grand Prize and received a gold medal as well as three special awards: for Best New Basic Part, Best New Composite Part and Best Part Collection, a press release from Vilnius University states. […]

Lithuanian passport
Society

Lithuanian parliament proposes total ban on legal gender recognition

November 14, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

On November 10th, 2017 the group of 31 MPs in the Lithuanian Parliament registered a legislative proposal, which aims at banning legal gender recognition (i.e. change of identity documents for transgender persons) and all medical procedures pertaining to gender reassignment treatment. This proposal stands in a sharp contrast with the jurisprudence of the national courts, granting legal gender recognition based on self-identification of a trans individual and corresponding mental diagnosis. If approved, Lithuania would become the only country within the broader region of the Council of Europe with an explicit ban on gender reassignment procedure, a press release from the Lithuanian Gay League states. […]

Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union members
Defence

In the international conference – society’s role in national defence

November 9, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

Continuing the tradition and carrying out one of the main tasks of Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union (LRU) – educating the society on the issues of state defense and national security – LRU will hold the international conference “Society – the Guarantee of National Security?” on the 17th of November, 2017, Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union informed in a press release. […]

Brain tomography
Society

CNS awards Lithuanian Professor for paradigm shift in neurology

October 27, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

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. […]

Lithuanian charity ball in London in 2016
Global LT

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

October 26, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

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. […]

Ant robot
Economy

Genus AI receives $1m Seed investment

October 24, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

Genus AI, the artificial intelligence company that enables businesses to interact with their customers in an emotionally intelligent way announces today it has raised $1 million in its Seed investment round, the company announced in a press release. […]

Arūnas Matelis
Culture

Matelis wins Best Documentary at Warsaw Film Festival

October 24, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

‘Wonderful Losers. A Different World”, from Lithuanian film director Arūnas Matelis, was awarded the Best Documentary Feature at the 33rd edition of the International Warsaw Film Festival (WFF). As the winner at one of the top eight ‘A’ class film festivals (along with Cannes, Venice and Berlin) in Europe, Arūnas Matelis’ documentary will also be eligible in the selection for the European Film Academy Awards, Kino Komunikacija wrote in a press release. […]

A girl with dolls from the Masha and the bear animation
CORPORATE

Lithuanian military representative: the information war is fought for hearts and minds

October 18, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

It has been known since ancient times that the greatest military victories are those achieved without firing a single shot. One of the means to do so is currently also one of the problems seen […]

RAF escorting Raynair jet from Kaunas
Society

RAF jets intercept Ryanair flight from Kaunas

October 4, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

RAF Typhoon jets have intercepted a passenger flight and diverted it to Stansted Airport, BBC news portal reported this as a breaking news. […]