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Culture

New time-lapses fascinate with the change of nature colors through different seasons

Project “Lietuva tavo delne” (Lithuania in your palm) cameras captured how seasons change and nature turns white in various parts of Lithuania. All locations featured in this projected got new time lapses and photos that let visitors see how colourful autumn replaces green summer and how it is then overcome by white winter; how spectacular Christmas trees glitter and how storms rage in the seaside. […]

Lauri Koponen
Economy

KTU Executive School: Tailor-made competences for business

Every businessperson in his of her life has encountered a situation when they need to upgrade their competence package. However, usually there is no time for proper studies, and the quality of available lectures by individual speakers is often compromised. Lauri Koponen, Head of KTU Executive School says that business breakfast, popular in Scandinavian countries, is a good solution for this problem. […]

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Defence

Lithuania hands over command of NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group ONE to Netherlands

Lithuania officially ended over six-month long period of command of NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group ONE (SNMCMG1). On January 22, Commander Giedrius Premeneckas (Lithuanian Navy) handed over command of SNMCMG1 to Commander Peter A.J. Bergen Henegouwen (Royal Netherlands Navy) at Den Helder naval base of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s speech in Vilnius in full

Mikhail Khodorkovsky‘s speech in Vilnius last week drew considerable controversy, with some saying his suggestions of easing economic sanctions on Russia played right into Vladimir Putin‘s interests, while others noting Khodorkovsky’s sober and measured reasoning. The following is a full transcript of Khodorkovsky’s address, translated from Russian by Katerina Sinkevičienė. […]

Seimas of Lithuania
Foreign affairs

Lithuania calls for further suspension of Russian delegations rights at Council of Europe PA

The plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to be held in Strasbourg on 26–30 January will address the question of whether to approve the credentials of the Russian delegation to be renewed in 2015 at the expiry of the sanctions applied by the PACE against the Russian delegation because of the annexation of Crimea and the escalation of military tensions in eastern Ukraine. […]

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Economy

British rail companies interested in Rail Baltica project

UK rail companies working in international projects and providing rail infrastructure services such as planning, construction and management of innovative and sustainable railways met the representatives of the Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications. During the meeting, the companies had the possibility to learn more about Lithuania’s strategic project Rail Baltica 2 and other rail projects implemented in the country, the Ministry of Transport and Communication said. […]

São Paulo
Foreign affairs

Lithuania’s deputy foreign minister discussed cooperation opportunities with Brazil

On 19 January, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius met with Under Secretary General for Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Carlos Antonio da Rocha Paranhos, Oswaldo Biato, Director of the Europe Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other officials. The officials discussed bilateral relations and opportunities for economic cooperation, the MFA said. […]

Algirdas Vaclovas Patackas
Society

Lithuanian MP voices threat against LGBT* rights organization

Member of the Lithuanian Parliament Algirdas Vaclovas Patackas has publicly warned the leader of LGL, a Lithuanian LGBT* rights NGO, that the organization is “playing with fire” and that its activities might result in a “black, repulsive and totally unacceptable response” similar to that which “happened in Paris.” The statement by the MP was issued as a response to the organization’s humourous suggestion to use 10-litas notes, that have been taken out of circulation, as LGBT* souvenirs. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Foreign affairs

President Grybauskaitė discusses key tasks for the year with foreign ambassadors

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with foreign ambassadors accredited to Lithuania. At the meeting, the president reviewed the main tasks and events of the last year, thanked the ambassadors for cooperation, and discussed the introduction of the euro and Lithuania’s key objectives for the year, the presidential press service said. […]