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Europe Day Fair kicks off in Vilnius

A traditional restaurant fair is kicking off in Vilnius on Friday as part of this week’s Europe Day events. […]

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Lithuanian state security body: journalist was involved in blackmail for MG Baltic

Journalist Tomas Dapkus, as a middleman for the top executives of MG Baltic, one of Lithuania’s biggest business groups, was allegedly involved in activities bearing the signs of blackmail, the State Security Department (VSD) said in a document. […]

Linas M. Zaikauskas
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Ex-head of Lithuania’s Miltinis Theater gets 44 days in custody for sexual harassment

A court on Friday found Linas Marijus Zaikauskas, a former head of the Juozas Miltinis Theater in Panevėžys, guilty of sexual harassment and sentenced him to 44 days in custody. […]

Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects Lost Shtetl museum render
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Ground-breaking ceremony for “The Lost Shtetl,” a unique museum and memorial complex in Lithuania designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects

On Friday 4th May the ground-breaking ceremony will take place in Šeduva, Lithuania, for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects. The ceremony will mark the official start of on-site preparations for the construction of the 3000m2 museum, which will stand to remember and teach about life in what was a predominantly Jewish area – before local populations were decimated by the Holocaust, according to a press release from Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects. […]

2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Brian Kobilka
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Nobel Prize winner to speak at Life Sciences Baltics 2018 in Vilnius

Brian K. Kobilka, MD, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Hélène Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on G-protein-coupled receptors, will be the keynote speaker at the Life Sciences Baltics conference to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on September 26-27, 2018, a press release from Enterprise Lithuania states. […]