On 20 April, at the 65th session of the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the OPCW, Ambassador Vidmantas Purlys was elected Vice-Chair of the Executive Council of the OPCW to serve in that office for a period of one year.
In her series of paintings “We Are Guests”, Lithuanian artist Eglė Ridikaitė depicts fragments of the Great Vilna Synagogue, which were uncovered during recent archaeological excavations. The excavations took place over several summers, directly beneath the windows of the artist’s studio. Ridikaitė’s works were first exhibited at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius in 2020, which itself was built on the territory of the former Vilnius ghetto.
“Startup Fair: Recharge 2021”, an international and one of the most important startup events in Lithuania, which will take place for the 9th year in a row, announces that the major recharge of the startup ecosystem will take place in Vilnius on 3-4 June, when the networking will be relaunched after a long-time gap, and when the flow of investments to the most promising startups will be increased by another financial “recharge” amounting to EUR 100 000.
The gap in travel freedom is its biggest in decades and disparities in vaccination access between countries could make the situation even worse, says a new report.
The Henley Passport Index, which has been regularly monitoring the world's most travel-friendly passports since 2006, has released its latest rankings and analysis.
The Government approved a package of laws initiated by the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation aimed to facilitate the transfer of companies’ employees and their family members by transferring a company’s activities (or part of activities) from third countries to Lithuania.
Lithuania’s next circulating commemorative €2 coin celebrates a natural place in that country.
The 2021 Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve highlights a place that is part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific Organization (UNESCO) Man and the Biosphere Programme.
The Future Mobility Group was to commence its activity in the Ministry of Transport and Communications last week. The Group is to take on ambitious tasks of promoting the creation and development of innovative solutions in the transport sector and of increasing sector competitiveness and Lithuania’s innovation potential.
Wargaming said it has opened a new office in Vilnius, Lithuania, to strengthen the company’s distributed development model.
The office will employ developers and it will also act as a publishing arm for central and Eastern Europe. The new hub will be located in the city’s modern business district and will focus on current and future projects alike.
Vilnius, Lithuanian capital, considers converting Lukiškės Prison complex, a former prison and one of the shooting locations for Netflix’s Stranger Things, into a multifunctional center to suit cultural, educational, scientific, artistic, and commercial purposes. Private sector investors will be able participate in the complex regeneration project, and present their vision for transforming the non-conventional object.
The Lithuanian Culture Institute and the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius present the first Lithuanian Visual Arts Showcase, which features a selection of prominent Lithuanian artists working in the field of contemporary art today.
Ieva Rojūtė is a Lithuanian artist working with installations, texts and drawings. Rojūtė is interested in a broad range of topics, including social constructions such as family, everyday language and basic human concerns.
