On 23 June, the Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Raimonda Murmokaitė took part in the Extraordinary Virtual Ministerial Pledging Conference on UNRWA hosted by the governments of Sweden and Jordan. The event in support of Palestine refugees and UNRWA was co-chaired by Sweden’s Minister for International Development Cooperation and the Foreign Minister of Jordan. The conference aimed to ensure that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) bridged the financial gap and received sufficient resources to continue delivering on its mandate.

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Researchers at KTU Centre of Packing Innovations and Research, Lithuania have found a solution, which will help beverage makers to pour the liquid through a 120-micrometre filter from a bottle with solid walls. The invention, commissioned by MV GROUP Production, has already been patented. It will improve the quality of beverages and is suited for mass production.

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COVID-19 has made one thing inevitable: leisure venues are not going back to business as usual for the foreseeable future. Concepts such as social distancing and the 1.5-meter economy will redefine social interaction and, ultimately, shape many aspects of how people and venues behave in the future.

With the use of predictive analytics and Artificial Intelligence, ​Crowd Control introduces features such as a Reservation Tool for new and pre-sold Tickets &  Season passes, Visitor Spread Management, Online Check-In, Crowd Prediction, Crowd Insights, and Contactless Payments to ensure safety and control by preventing overcrowding at all times.

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J.D. Salinger, the American writer best known for his 1951 novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” was honored with a sculpture featuring a rye field near the Lithuanian village where his ancestors lived.

The writer, whose book was popular among the post-World War II generation of college students in the United States but also was banned for decades there, joined other another figure with a statue there: singer Leonard Cohen, whose mother was born in Lithuania.

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While colonial-era statues are being torn down in the UK and Belgium, some Eastern European countries have already banished communist-era monuments to isolated parks, like Grūtas in Lithuania. Are there better ways to deal with canceled “heroes”, asks Deutsche Welle.

The fall of a monument is a historical act. There is something irreversible about it. It stands for a victory against the old order, the dawn of a new era. It's no wonder, then, that in the wake of the current anti-racism protests, slave owners and colonial masters of the past are being swept off their pedestals. Their glorified legacy, which has survived to this day in the form of racism, is finally being reevaluated.

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