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China has told multinationals to sever ties with Lithuania or face being shut out of the Chinese market, a senior government official and an industry body told reporters, dragging companies into a dispute between the Baltic state and Beijing. China downgraded its diplomatic ties with Lithuania last month after Taiwan opened a representative office in Vilnius. Lithuania’s ruling coalition had agreed in November last year to support what it described as “those fighting for freedom” in Taiwan, putting its relations with China at risk. Earlier last month, a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affair...

Akropolis Group submitted a substantially updated project of the multifunctional culture, entertainment, business and shopping complex Akropolis Vingis to...

Twelve new art installations will appear around the Lithuanian capital this year.

First skyscraper in Vilnius: how modernity desacralised the city skyline 1 Basanavičiaus Street, 1907. / LMA Vrublevskių Library Most contemporary skyscrapers that dominate the skyline of Vilnius are located near the Neris River waterfront. The very first ‘skyscraper’, however, was built over a century ago during the Tsarist era, writes Artūras Savko for the Neakivaizdinis Vilnius magazine.  A huge building in the neoclassicist and neo-baroque styles is located atop the street named after the Lithuanian National Revival activist Jonas Basanavičius. On its roof, a giant sign used to p...

Vilnius celebrates 698th anniversary with light installations – in photos 447 Gediminas Tower lit for the 698th anniversary of Vilnius / J. Stacevičius/LRT This week, the Lithuanian capital is celebrating its birthday with light installations on monuments and bridges. Four bridges across the Neris River, the Gediminas Tower and Vilnius TV tower are among the edifices lit in multiple colours. While earliest settlements in the area date back to the Stone Age, it is customary to date a city from its earliest mention in written sources. Vilnius – or Vilna – was identified as the seat of Gr...