On October 9, Minister Linas Linkevičius met with the Ukrainain delegation from the region of Dnipropetrovsk, lead by the deputy head of regional administration Volodymyr Yurchenko. Ukrainian troops who are currently undergoing treatment in Lithuania were also present. 

Every year, Lithuania welcomes 50 troops from Ukraine for treatment and rehabilitation. 

During their visit, the delegation expressed their interest in learning from good practices of Lithuania in establishing centers of psychological-social rehabilitation.

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Lithuania has proposed that Dalia Leinartė, professor at Vytautas Magnus University, be re-elected to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

Leinartė was first elected to CEDAW in 2012 and was approved for a second term in 2016. She became the committee's vice-chairwoman in 2015 and served as its chair between 2017 and 2018.

Leinartė is a member of the editorial board of the Gender Studies and Research magazine. She served as director of the Gender Studies Centre at Vilnius University between 2000 and 2017. In 2018, Apolitical, a global network of public servants, named her as one of the 100 most influential people in gender policy around the world.

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Tandem perovskite-CIGS solar cells, produced as a result of the collaboration between Lithuanian and German researchers, have reached an efficiency of 23.26 percent, which currently is a world record value in this type of cells. One reason for the success lies in the cell’s intermediate layer of organic molecules: they self-assemble to cover even rough semiconductor surfaces. The self-assembling materials were synthesised at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania.

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Niko Amirgulašvili was born into a Georgian family in Lithuania and often jokingly calls himself Georgia's ambassador. To celebrate his double heritage, Niko decided to make a journey from Vilnius to Tbilisi – on foot.

“When I'm in Lithuania, everyone asks me about life in Georgia and when I'm there, I'm being asked about life in Lithuania,” Niko tells LRT TV programme ‘Labas rytas, Lietuva’.

As an ambassador of sorts, it's his duty to build bridges, he thought, and why not incorporate his favourite activity, hiking? And so Niko set out on a 2,500-kilometre journey from Vilnius to Tbilisi, on foot.

Lithuania and Georgia enjoy very close relations and also share a determination to resist Moscow's influence, and Lithuania vocally supported Georgia during the 2008 war with Russia.

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With the mention of primates and those who have dedicated their lives to the study of them, people often think of Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. But neither of these women can be credited with operating the longest continuous study by one principal investigator of any wild mammal in the world.

That honour goes to Biruté Galdikas, a Canadian scientist, conservationist and educator who is surprisingly less known than her fellow Trimates, Goodall and Fossey. She Walks with Apes, a new documentary from The Nature of Things, tells the story of the Trimates and the next generation of women who were inspired to live with the great apes.

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