European Union leaders asked their foreign ministers on Tuesday to consider possible new sanctions on Russia in response to a rebel offensive in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reports. A final decision to impose them, however, is likely to be left to a summit next month. […]
On 22 January, Telecommunications Research Centre M2M (machine-to-machine) laboratory was opened officially at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University. […]
On 26 January, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius met with UK Minister for Europe David Lidington in London and discussed possible results of the forthcoming EU’s Foreign Affairs Council. […]
Lithuania continues to rise in the consciousness of Scandinavians and Western Europeans as a proffered destination for elective dental health treatments. Vilnius dental clinic Odontika, the Baltic’s leading dental clinic for patients from abroad, has been active in promoting Lithuania to the Scandinavian market this winter. […]
On 25 January, during an official visit to Tbilisi, Georgia, Prime Minster Algirdas Butkevičius met with Lithuanian businesspeople and citizens working in international organisations in Georgia. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Mobile applications performance service App Annie recently announced results for last years’ November in which Lithuanian game Cooking Fever reached top 10 in Apple iOS games charts. Nordcurrent studios’ game squeezed between such industry heavyweights as Candy Crush, Madden NFL, Game of War and others. […]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania strongly condemns increased Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. […]
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. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė offered the condolences of the Lithuanian people and her personal sympathy to Saudi Arabia‘s King Salman bin Abdulaziz on the passing of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the presidential press service said. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
The United States and its allies should deploy troops to Baltic states to deter Russia from staging a possible incursion in those countries, former presidential national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, told lawmakers Wednesday, AFP reports. […]
On 21 January, in Riga, the Informal Meeting of European Union Defence Policy Directors agreed that the European Union and NATO had to cooperate in providing response to threats of hybrid warfare, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
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. […]
On 20 January, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with Canadian Defence Minister Robert Nicholson at Canada‘s National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. Both ministers addressed a number of common security and defence issues, including joint efforts to support Ukraine. […]
QS World University Rankings has published a list of the best universities in the region of emerging Europe and central Asia. Vilnius University (VU) made it to the top 50, ranking in the 32nd place. One more Lithuanian institution, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, ranks slightly lower, in the 47th spot, VU reports. […]
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. […]
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