Kumar Anubhav Tiwari from India, who is working as a lecturer at Kaunas University of Technology, says that while Lithuania seems to him a peaceful and welcoming country, a recent attack that he thinks was motivated by racism has shaken his good impression of the country. In a letter, published below, he explains his concerns. […]
On Friday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius participated in the opening ceremony of a new Panemunė bridge in Kaunas. Residents of the city had to wait for three years for the new bridge to be built and were forced to use a bypass at that time. […]
Kaunas Municipality is finishing an application to have parts of the city included into the Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage, the municipality announced on Tuesday. […]
Guests staying in hotels and private apartments in Lithuania’s second-largest city of Kaunas will have to pay a EUR 0.5 “pillow tax” for every night spent as of January 1, 2016. […]
The municipality of Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas is beginning to clean up an old Jewish cemetery in Žaliakalnis, with identification and inventory of the graves planned at the start of the project, the municipality said on Thursday. […]
Refugee integration centres will be opened in Lithuania’s largest cities of Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the Ministry of Welfare and Labour said. […]
A military exercise will be held in and near Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas, with armoured vehicles driving on the city streets, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas will Friday pay tribute to the memory of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who issued visas to rescue thousands of Jews during World War Two. […]
Italian musicologist and semiotician, professor Dario Martinelli says that the most beautiful view in Lithuania is at the confluence of the Nemunas and the Neris rivers at Kaunas Santaka park. […]
Bentley Systems, a global software supplier that opened its first office in Lithuania 10 years ago, is expanding and opening a new office in Kaunas, reports Invest Lithuania, the country’s state investment promotion agency. […]
On Thursday, 39 members of the new Kaunas City Council, including Visvaldas Matijošaitis, the first directly elected mayor of Kaunas, were sworn in. […]
Kaunas Jazz festival, which will take place for the 25th time this year, will visit the Estonian capital Tallinn, in addition to the usual venues in Kaunas and Vilnius. Concerts are also planned in Birštonas and Vilkaviškis, both towns in southern Lithuania. […]
New mayors of Vilnius and Kaunas will have to deal with different challenges. Remigijus Šimašius, new mayor of the Lithuanian capital, will have to address the city’s financial problems and reduce heating bills, while businessman Visvaldas Matijošaitis, the new mayor of Lithuania’s second city, will have to attract more investment, says economist Gitanas Nausėda. […]
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