Virginijus Šmigelskas
Society

Lithuania’s Lietuvos Žinios daily gets new CEO

Virginijus Smigelskas on Thursday took post as chief executive officer of the company publishing the Lithuanian daily Lietuvos Žinios, Achemos Grupė (Achema Group) that operates the company said. […]

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History

Toys and games in medieval Lithuania

Even in the times of gravest calamities and shortage, people did find time for games and other ways of making their everyday lives brighter, regardless of whether it was a ducal palace of a hut of a peasant family. In the 19th century, even the poorest peasants had simple wood-carved toys for their children. […]

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History

The family and the patriarchate in ancient Baltic societies

The family in the 13th and 14th century Lithuania represented a unit in many senses, from economical and productive to social, organisational, and legal. The average family consisted of five or six people. The remains of a 14th century house in the lower town of Kernavė feature a plank-bed, made of several benches, up to three by 1.7 metres. Since the average human of the time was about 1.65 metres tall, the bed could accommodate the entire family of five to six people. On the other hand, the family also had a broader meaning, the one that covered two or three generations of relatives, such as fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, as well as unmarried brothers and sisters. […]

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Society

Lithuania’s Internet suppliers to appeal against court ruling to block linkomanija.net

Following an obligation to block access to file sharing website linkomanija.net, Lithuania’s largest Internet suppliers intend to file an appeal against the court ruling to avoid a precedent of blocking the spread of information online. […]

Commemorating the German People's Day of Mourning
Foreign affairs

Tribute to WWI, WWII victims paid in Vilnius

The German National Day of Mourning was marked in the cemetery of German soldiers in Vingio Park in the Lithuanian capital on Sunday. […]

Šlyninkos watermill in Zarasai region
History

Lithuanian watermills in the 15th and 16th century: a slow technological revolution

Ancient civilisations already knew how to use the energy of running water, but it was the Western European civilisation that developed a vast network of watermills during the Middle Ages. The abundance of swift-running rivers and constant increase of crop areas in Europe were the two important factors behind the spread of watermills that eventually got involved in various technological processes, including smithing, papermaking, wood processing and groundwater regulation. In technical sense, history of Western watermills apparently developed independently from the experience of other civilisations, although the initial impulses might have arrived from elsewhere. […]

VU student team Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM
Society

Vilnius university team wins the Grand Prize in iGEM competition

“Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM” team won the largest, most prestigious, international Synthetic Biology competition iGEM. Vilnius University students bested more than 300 teams from leading world universities. The team won the Grand Prize and received a gold medal as well as three special awards: for Best New Basic Part, Best New Composite Part and Best Part Collection, a press release from Vilnius University states. […]

Šarūnas Bartas
Society

Lithuanian film director dismisses sexual misconduct charges, gives up municipal premises

Lithuanian film director Šarūnas Bartas on Tuesday said he disagreed with the sexual misconduct accusations leveled against him by two female artists, adding he would move out of the premises leased by the municipality for his Kinema studio on preferential terms. […]