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Economy

Israel’s Simplex Payment Services to develop payment platform in Lithuania

Simplex, an Israeli financial technology (fintech) and cybersecurity start-up, has chosen Lithuania ahead of the likes of Luxembourg, Cyprus and the UK as the location for its new global supervision and sales team. The company plans to employ around 20 experts in sales, support, Fraud analysis, marketing, information technologies, data analytics, quality supervision and finance in the coming couple of years, Invest Lithuania announced in a press release. […]

Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
Society

Lithuania should strengthen the protection of women, children and disable

“While considerable progress has been achieved in protecting human rights in recent years, the Lithuanian authorities still have to address some remaining shortcomings, in particular as regards the protection of women, children and persons with disabilities” said Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, in a report released today based on a visit to the country carried out in December 2016, the Council of Europe reported in a press release. […]

Baltic Vikings ii
Freetime

Ancient Baltic tribes revived on the shores of the Neris River

Families, youth and all others interested in Baltic Culture are invited to participate in the “Family Day of Ancient Baltic Culture” which will take place on 17th of April from 14:00 – 18:00 on the banks of the Neris River beside the White bridge of Vilnius. Active medieval displays, traditional games, workshops and tasks will be open for discovery especially for children and families. The event is completely free of charge. […]

Labas! Festivalis
Freetime

LABAS! Early years theatre festival for you!

Now in its third year, the Labas! festival is the brainchild of Dalia Mikoliūnaitė from Teatriukas in Vilnius, Lithuania and Cliodhna Noonan from Acting Up! in Dublin, Ireland. The first edition (2015) was small and compact and enjoyed the support of the Irish Embassy, the Croatian and Lithuanian Ministries of Culture and the Austrian Culture Forum in Lithuania. It was a first step in the direction of international collaboration on the idea of presenting new performances to an audience under 6 years old and their carers. Performances were in cultural venues in the city and selected state facilities in the Kūdikių namai (Vilnius residence for infants with developmental delays) and minority communities in Vilnius. […]

Ambassador at Large, H.E. Eitvidas Bajarūnas signs the document in Helsinki
Defence

Lithuania to participate in the establishment of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats

On 11 April in Helsinki, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the establishment of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats was signed by representatives of the U.S., the UK, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Finland, France, Sweden and Germany, Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a press release. […]

The Vilnius Gaon State Jewish Museum
Society

Gaon Jewish Museum astonished over plans of Jewish History Museum in Vilnius

The Vilnius Gaon State Jewish Museum has expressed astonishment over the Lithuanian administration’s plans of founding a new Museum of Jewish History in or next to the reconstructed Vilnius Concert and Sports Palace. […]

Detention of Navalny
CORPORATE

Our Eastern neighbours in their wellies show us how far we’ve come

Over the two days of this weekend we got to see how our Eastern neighbours are living and how far we’ve come from them. And we are gaining distance at a rapid pace. Those participating […]