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“In the year 1009, St Bruno, also known as Boniface, archbishop and monk, during his eleventh year after having become a monk, was killed by pagans at the border of Rus’ and Lithuania on the 9th of March with 18 of his brethren, all of whom went to heaven.” – Quedlinburg Annals, St Servatius Monastery, Germany
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- Lithuanians won the 20th Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships
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GEO n°371 - Janvier 2010
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Lituanie. La longue route vers la liberté.
En 1991, la Lituanie se séparait de l’URSS. Comment y a-t-on vécu l’autonomie retrouvée ? Rencontre avec cinq femmes légèrement désenchantées.
Retrouvez les photos de Lituanie sur GEO.fr.
Feb
4
Lithuanian Prime Minister opened the NASDAQ Stock Market morning trading session in New York
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On Wednesday, continuing his visit in the United States, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius opened the NASDAQ Stock Market morning trading session in New York. Prime Minister Kubilius delivered a short address during the morning bell-ringing ceremony, which had been hosted by a number of famous people from around the world; the Prime Minister noted that a branch of the NASDAQ OMX Group has been operating in Lithuania as Vilnius Stock Exchange.
“Be farsighted, invest in Lithuania. Lithuania is a dynamic and courageous country that likes winning and knows how to do it. By investing into Lithuania, we shall win together!” said Prime Minister Kubilius during the opening of the NASDAQ Stock Market morning trading session.
NASDAQ opening and closing bell ceremonies have been hosted by different high-ranking state officials such as U.S. President Barack Obama or U.S. Secretary of State Ms. Clinton and other well-known figures. It is here that corporate highlight events are marked by best-known companies, listed at NASDAQ OMX, such as Microsoft, Google, Starbucks, Cisco, and many others.
AB Nasdaq OMX Vilnius is a new name to AB Vilnius Stock Exchange. Name changing was another step towards integration into the world’s largest stock exchange operator NASDAQ OMX.
Lithuania is ready to receive business investors. There is many hotels, conference centers we can offer for business travelers.
More about future conference in Lithuania please follow the link http://www.conferencelithuania.eu/
Feb
4
Exhibition “Imprisoned in Amber”
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Date: from 2009-12-29 to 2010-03-01
Venue: Museum of Applied Art (Arsenalo St. 3 A, Vilnius)
The visitors of the exhibition have a unique opportunity to see the collection of natural beauty from the Lithuanian Art Museum funds. This is an example of the connection between the culture and natural sciences. The scientifically valuable Baltic amber inclusion collection is among the world’s largest and foremost. Animals and plants hermetically sealed in amber are documents of nature that have been preserved over millions of years. The visitors will see even 214 inclusions from the Palanga Amber Museum, with different insect groups and motifs of plants.
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I – ; II 11:00 - 18:00; III 11:00 - 18:00; IV 11:00 - 18:00 ; V 11:00 - 18:00; VI 11:00 - 18:00; VII 11:00 - 16:00
Feb
4
Traditional republican horseracing in Dusetos hippodrome - Sartai 2010
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Date: February 6, 2010
Venue: Dusetos hippodrome, Lithuania
The beginning of the Fair - 10.00 am
The beginning of the Race – 12.00 pm.
The opening of the exhibition “Horse in Photography ” at the Dusetos Art Gallery (K. Būga street 31a, Dusetos) – 4.30 pm.
Entrance fee by car - 10 Lt,
Entrance fee by minibus - 20 Lt,
Entrance fee by bus - 30 Lt.
You can buy tickets at the supermarkets “Maxima”, Shopping center “Sava” and the bookstores “Vaga”.
Travel agency “Visit Lithuania” offers day trip to Sartai!!!
Believe, it is necessary to come to Zarasai land in midwinter - on the first Saturday of February - as there are several reasons for that: if you wish to meet nearly half of Lithuania and you are yearning for the only in Lithuania such joyful gathering, for the residents of Dusetos so truly preparing for the horserace and for Dusetos township, which becomes an oasis of festive din – make preparations for your journey! Escapades of nature, changeable weather and other unexpectedness may not become an obstacle – you must be in Dusetos as it becomes a spotlight of the whole Lithuania on that day. The residents of this township can pride themselves: traditional republican harness horserace has exceeded the limits of Zarasai region many years ago - it became one of the most impressive events in Lithuania that is known even abroad: more and more journalists interested in it come from abroad to watch the races as well as the process of preparation for them.
The organizers of the festival understand their responsibility – the horserace held this year counts the 210th anniversary, 140 years of regular organization and even the 100 years from the date of declaration of the race as traditional. So deep history of the races is marked with legends, stories and vivid heroes. Since the old days the main place for the fight of racers has always been the beautiful Lake Sartai. It is disappointing but changeable winters often trips the organizers up – ice of the lake becomes dangerous. But inventive organizers have found the way out – they arrange the races quite near - in the hippodrome under the side of the lake and they will never connive at the capricious winter and at unpredictable nature of it.
Feb
3
Flea market in Vilnius!
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Already this weekend, on the 7th of February, in the center of Vilnius “Blusturgis”(Flea market) will buzz again. Every Sunday from 12.00 to 16.00 pm. comfortable and each time different flea market invites you to spend an enjoyable afternoon.
In summer, the flea market was held in Vilnius Teachers’ House Courtyard, at Christmas - shopping mall “G9” terrace. For some time it has been discontinued, but now was decided to revive it. Thus, the traditional flea market revives and moves to the new location – “G9” fourth floor.
“Blusturgis” - this is not just an alternative shopping location. It calls for communication: tell and listen stories of things, negotiate, meet with friends. Organizers plan to prepare workshops to the guests. In addition, now more than ever “Blusturgis” will be environmentally-friendly.
“Blusturgis” distinguished by the fact, that everyone, who wishes, can participate in it. According to organizers, it does not matter whether you have a dinner service, picture, painted by your sister, the original tape collection or a hat - everyone, even the strangest thing, find a new host in this flea market.
Feb
2
Lithuanians won the 20th Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships
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The Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships returned to Breckenridge for the 20th year from Jan. 26-31, 2010. The Sculptures “lived” in the area around the Riverwalk Center grounds at 150 West Adams Avenue, Breckenridge, CO 80424.
Operating for over 18 years, this competition has grown to become one of the largest snow competitions around. Each year, thousands of spectators gather to watch blocks of snow transformed into mind-blowing shapes and sculptures over the course of five days. Each team consists of four people who work over 65 hours to win one of the three awards in Style, Theme, and Technique. There are also Peoples’, Kids’, and Artists’ Choice awards. Depending on the weather, most sculptures are available for viewing up to 5 days.
This year partcipated 12 teams from 6 countries- Canada, China, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Mexico and the United States. Within the United States were teams from Alaska, Breckenridge/Colorado, Loveland/Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The winners of the 20th Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships were announced on Sunday, January 31, 2010:
1st Place and Kids’ Choice- Team Lithuania
2nd Place- Team Canada, Ontario
3rd Place- Team Mexico
People’s Choice- Team USA/Alaska
Artists’ Choice- Team Wisconsin
Feb
2
airBaltic receives ATW’s Phoenix Award
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2010.02.01 at a gala ceremony in Singapore Aaron Karp, Senior Editor of the world’s leading aviation magazine Air Transport World presented ATW’s Phoenix Award to Bertolt Flick, President and CEO of airBaltic. This highly regarded award recognises the fundamental changes that airBaltic has so successfully implemented, despite the exceptional harsh market conditions. ATW’s award ceremony took place at the Swissotel-The Stamford in Singapore.
Bertolt Flick, President and CEO of airBaltic: “We exercised a major business restructuring of airBaltic over the past two years that involved all sides of our business, be it operational or commercial. We are delighted that our achievement has earned global recognition from Air Transport World editors. For us in the airline industry ATW Phoenix Award has the same value as Oscar award for filmmakers.”
ATW Editorial Director Perry Flint: “The Phoenix Award was created to recognize those airlines that have achieved a commercial rebirth through a life-changing business transformation. This perfectly describes airBaltic, which successfully changed its operating model from a point-to-point carrier to a network airline.”
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