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Your Weekly News from Lithuania | April 30

Apr 30 2021

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Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis visiting the South Caucasus

CULTURE

Kaunas 2022: The Crown Jewel of Europe’s Contemporary Culture

Kaunas – the future European Capital of Culture – has everything to captivate the world’s attention. The city’s history, Fluxus movement, design, and community all went into creating the legend of a new Contemporary Capital that’s set to become a year-long cultural festival, promising more events than there are days in 2022.

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INNOVATION

Lithuanian electric buses “Dancer” has proven their reliability and service routes of public transport operator with highest schedule standards in Europe

April marks exactly one year when the first Lithuanian electric buses “Dancer” started servicing regular public transport routes in Klaipeda and proved their technical reliability. For the newly manufactured “Dancer” buses, it was a huge challenge and responsibility to serve the routes of “Klaipėdos autobusų parkas“, a public transport operator, that is recognized as the best in Europe in terms of compliance with the route schedule standards.

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

“The Lithuanian Forest” inaugurated in Armenia

On 27 April, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis, together with the Acting Minister of Environment of Armenia Romanos Petrosyan, inaugurated a green space “The Lithuanian Forest” in Lori Province, Armenia, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Lithuania and Armenia.

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INVESTMENT

Green light for major investment projects in Lithuania

The Government approved a package of law implementing regulations drafted by the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation, which provides legal basis for launching large-scale investment projects of local and foreign capital in Lithuania.

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Happy International #DanceDay! | Credits: Lithuania.lt

TOURISM

A new Kaunastic Route to Discover the City with a Diplomat

For just over twenty years during the interwar period, Kaunas served as the capital of Lithuania. A time of immense development when thousands of new buildings were erected, many new businesses started, and important higher education and state institutions established. Kaunas became a fast-paced and vibrant city, with large numbers of Lithuanians returning from major cities across Europe, as well as a wide range of different foreign nationalities coming to settle here.

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SCIENCE

Lithuania to become associate member of European Space Agency

Lithuania will become an associate member of the European Space Agency (ESA) after the country's Economy and Innovation Minister Aušrinė Armonaitė signed an association agreement.

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