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Slovenian president to pay official visit to Lithuania
Slovenian President Borut Pahor on Monday is coming to Lithuania for an official visit that will focus on defense and cybersecurity, the Lithuanian president’s office said. […]
Foreign affairs
Foreign minister to take part in Baltic, Nordic and Visegrad Group meeting in Poland
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius on Tuesday is taking part in a meeting of foreign ministers of the Baltic, Nordic and Visegrad Group countries in Poland. […]
Society
Hackers seeking weak spots in Lithuania’s strategic systems
Lithuanian officials say that hackers constantly search for seek spots in systems of strategic importance, therefore, executives of companies and institutions should pay more attention to cyber security, top executives of relevant institutions told BNS in comment of a Reuters report about hacker attempts to penetrate with Baltic electricity networks. […]
Defence
Economy
Lithuania wants to prove it was net contributor, not recipient of Soviet funds
As part of its effort to estimate the damage caused by the Soviet occupation, Lithuania wants to dig up archival documents to calculate the balance of financial flows between Vilnius and Moscow during that period, a method that has already been used by neighbouring Latvia, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reports. […]
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Baltic states ‘scared to death’ of Russia and Trump, Biden tells US voters
United States Vice-President Joe Biden says his recent visit to Latvia has given him the impression that the Baltic states are “scared to death” of Russia and fear the possibility of Donald Trump being elected as the next US president. […]
Economy
History
Charms and superstitions of pagan Lithuanians
Lithuania remained pagan until the late Middle Ages and, as such, was an object of curiosity as well as hostility for Christian Europe. Paganism, wrote thirteenth-century Franciscan scholar Bartholomew the Englishman, was “ritus mirabilis”. Christian scholars who described pagan rituals did not shy away from negative stereotyping, although sometimes their writings give neutral, almost ethnographic descriptions.
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Society
Lithuania commemorating 27th anniversary of the Baltic Way
On August 23, Lithuania is celebrating the 27th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a defining moment in the Baltic countries’ movement for independence from the Soviet Union.
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Economy
Lithuania home to 3 biggest companies in Baltics
Three Lithuanian companies top the list of fifty biggest businesses in the Baltics compiled by the international credit insurer Coface. […]
CORPORATE
Lithuania behind other Baltic states in commercial real estate investment
Over the first half of 2016, 22 investment transactions have been made in the Baltic states involving 423,000 square metres of commercial real estate. Among the Baltic states, Lithuania has attracted the least investment, according […]
Culture
‘I fear for Russia’s future’ – Sokurov in Vilnius
With anti-democratic sentiments growing among the Russian population, Alexander Sokurov, a prominent Russian filmmaker, says he feels great concern about his country’s future.
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CORPORATE
Cargo transportation on the rise in Lithuania
The first six months of 2016 saw growth in transportation of goods. Experts predict that the transport sector’s share in the gross domestic product will be up to two and a half percent higher this […]
CORPORATE
Lithuanians spend more on housing than Latvians and Estonians
A survey shows that Lithuanians tend to spend more on homes than people in the other two Baltic countries. Forty-seven percent of Lithuanians prefer living in flats, 34% would choose to live in a cottage […]
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