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  • Society

Kaunas international community concerned after racist attack

Kumar Anubhav Tiwari from India, who is working as a lecturer at Kaunas University of Technology, says that while Lithuania…

9 years ago
  • Society

Vilnius and Kaunas light Christmas trees

Lithuania's two biggest cities, Vilnius and Kaunas, inaugurated their Christmas trees on weekend, each hoping to be recognized as the…

9 years ago
  • Economy

New bridge inaugurated in Kaunas

On Friday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius participated in the opening ceremony of a new Panemunė bridge in Kaunas. Residents of…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Unique Art Deco furniture and design on display in Kaunas

The exhibition "Art Deco Kaunas 1919-1940: Feeling of Home" at Kaunas Garrison Officers Club is dedicated exclusively to the Interwar…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Kaunas works on application to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site

Kaunas Municipality is finishing an application to have parts of the city included into the Tentative List of UNESCO World…

9 years ago
  • Economy

Kaunas to introduce ‘pillow tax’

Guests staying in hotels and private apartments in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas will have to pay a EUR 0.5…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Kaunas undertakes to clean up old Jewish cemetery

The municipality of Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas is beginning to clean up an old Jewish cemetery in Žaliakalnis, with identification…

9 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania planning refugee integration centres in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda

Refugee integration centres will be opened in Lithuania's largest cities of Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the Ministry of Welfare and…

9 years ago
  • Defence

Kaunas to host military exercise

A military exercise will be held in and near Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas, with armoured vehicles driving on the city…

9 years ago
  • Society

Kaunas to commemorate Japanese diplomat Sugihara

Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas will Friday pay tribute to the memory of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who issued visas to…

9 years ago
  • Economy

Kaunas authorities plan pillow tax for tourists

Administration of Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas will discuss in September the so-called pillow tax for tourists visiting the city, the…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Kaunas city and Jewish organization sign deal on cemetery upkeep

The Municipality of Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city, has signed a cooperation agreement with Jewish organization Maceva regarding the Old Jewish…

9 years ago
  • Sports

Kaunas to build Basketball House

The City Council of Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city, on Tuesday backed plans to build a Lithuanian Basketball House in downtown…

9 years ago
  • Economy

Ryanair to open route Kaunas-Copenhagen

Beginning on 15 July, the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will be operating daily flights from Kaunas, Lithuania's second largest city,…

9 years ago
  • Society

Kaunas commemorates brutal WWII Jewish pogrom

The massacre of Jews at the Lietūkis garage 74 years ago was one of the most brutal not only in…

9 years ago
  • Society

Semiotics professor Dario Martinelli: Kaunas is a city with huge potential

Italian musicologist and semiotician, professor Dario Martinelli says that the most beautiful view in Lithuania is at the confluence of…

10 years ago
  • Economy

Bentley Systems to open second office in Lithuania

Bentley Systems, a global software supplier that opened its first office in Lithuania 10 years ago, is expanding and opening…

10 years ago
  • Politics

New Kaunas mayor sworn in

On Thursday, 39 members of the new Kaunas City Council, including Visvaldas Matijošaitis, the first directly elected mayor of Kaunas,…

10 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Kaunas Jazz concerts planned in Tallinn this year

Kaunas Jazz festival, which will take place for the 25th time this year, will visit the Estonian capital Tallinn, in…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Different challenges await new mayors of Lithuania’s biggest cities

New mayors of Vilnius and Kaunas will have to deal with different challenges. Remigijus Šimašius, new mayor of the Lithuanian…

10 years ago