Culture

Scholars offer recommendations for history policy makers of Lithuania and Belarus

Historical memory has a strong impact on the cohesion of political society. The historical memory of any given society is affected by a whole range of factors, such as the methodology and content of history teaching at school, the creation of various memorials and alternative sources of information about the past. Most of these factors depend on the political sphere and are a direct consequence of political or administrative decisions. In short, a consequence of state history policy. […]

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Culture

The Summer of Sangaile included in the main programme of Berlinale Panorama Section

The Summer of Sangaile, a film by Lithuanian director Alantė Kavaitė, will be screened in the main programme of Berlinale Panorama. The film will have its European première in Berlin while its world première is scheduled in a couple of days in Sundance. […]

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Foreign affairs

Linkevičius discusses bilateral and regional cooperation with Latvian, Estonian and Slovakian foreign ministers

On 16 January, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, Foreign Minister of Latvia, and Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, Foreign Minister of Estonia, who are taking part in the Snow Meeting. […]

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Society

Lithuanians’ trust in e-government services growing

A study commissioned by the Information Society Development Committee under the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania on Lithuanian e-government services revealed that electronic declarations and electronic applications were the most popular form of electronic communication between Lithuanian government agencies and citizens in 2014, the ministry said. […]

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Newsweek: Putin makes his first move in race to control the Arctic

In November, the Russian K-550 nuclear ballistic submarine Alexander Nevsky, submerged in the Barents Sea between Russia and the North Pole, successfully launched a missile that travelled its prescribed course to Kamchatka in Russia’s far east. The Alexander Nevsky thus joins two other Russian nuclear submarines, which have, in the course of the autumn, conducted successful ballistic missile tests. […]

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European Union

Russia pans Lithuania’s counter-propaganda initiative in EU

A Russian official has criticized suggestions by several European Union nations, including Lithuania, to form a consistent pan-EU effort to counter Russia’s propaganda campaign. […]

Economy

Klaipėdos Nafta reloaded 640,000 thousand tonnes of oil products in December

State company Klaipėdos Nafta during December 2014 reloaded 640 thousand tonnes of oil products into its storage tanks, greater by 68.4 percent than during December 2013, when 380 thousand tonnes were reloaded. During December 2014 more oil products from the main client of the company Orlen Lietuva as well as from refineries of the Republic of Belarus were reloaded, compared to transhipment during December 2013, also during December 2014 additional heavy oil products from refineries of Russian Federation were reloaded, Klaipėdos Nafta announced. […]