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Lithuanian Deputy Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas summoned Russian Ambassador Yuri Zubakov on 17 August to voice concern over violations in military transit procedures to and from Kaliningrad.
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The Submarine Crew Has Enough Oxygen For 8 Days
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In the world Internet television and radio is not news; but new digital television and radio technologies have arrived to Lithuania not so long ago. Last year JSC“Skyneta” began implementation of the project: connection to Internet using optical cable network “Skynet”.
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Medals at the Sydney Olympics might come with a little something extra -- a tax bill.
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A high-level reorganization has left Microsoft headquarters directly in charge of WebTV's most promising businesses.
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On Aug. 17, the European Commission (EC) and the European Union (EU) member states ambassadors' meeting will take place at the Latvian Interior Ministry (IM) during which justice and home affairs will be discussed.
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Up to now tourism possibilities in Lithuania were not properly evaluated. J.Ignatonis, the director of The Tourism association of Lithuania, says rural tourism is very perspective branch the opportunities of which are not totally realized by countrymen. Though number of examples of an entrepreneurial ingenuity grows.
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Liutauras Varanauskas, the chairman of board of Ûkio bankas, is convinced that in the nearest future investors from the different parts of the world will come there, from Germany, Austria and Russia in particular.
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search.lt presents newest links
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Saudi authorities have blocked access to a site on Yahoo's Web portal that contains pornographic and other offensive material, a Saudi official said today.
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Someday you'll be able to download the Bible from the heavens. Well, from the Internet anyway.
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The park of Soviet sculptures is being built in Grûtas forest near resort Druskininkai. It will be a big historical museum with various materials from soviet times. Now tourists and Lithuanians themselves already visit it, but some organizations and politicians are against this park. The questions about legality of this museum are solved in courts and even in Constitutional one.
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Police leaders met in Tallinn two weeks ago to discuss improving discipline on the force after a police officer who was driving drunk and without a license hit and killed a woman, pushing the number of deaths caused by allegedly drunk policemen.
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The International Olympic Committee has essentially blocked Web sites from covering the games in Sydney, Australia.
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A German court ruled on Thursday that people paid to talk dirty in the Internet's swelling number of sex chatrooms should enjoy the same rights as other workers, regardless of whether their job is "immoral."
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Pakistan Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar has said that conflict between India and Pakistan can lead to a full scale War in which nuclear weapons could be used, as both countries ossess such weapons.
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Lithuanian Neo-nazi party is willing to enter politics but the Government refused to register it as a party for the 10th time. Situation is to repeat until they will not refuse drastic statements against sexual and national minorities, immigrants and military ideas. Only a small number of people support them while others think they are simply big mouths and eccentrics, but not a political force, which could get Lithuania out of economical and political crisis.
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A public row broke out in Latvia on 10 August when Interior Minister Mareks Seglins called on the government to extend more support to the police force than the military, BNS reported.
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The goofy DirecTV ad starring Arnold Schwarzenegger has found a new home in a burning orphanage.
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The Lustration Court on 10 August ruled that President Aleksander Kwasniewski did not lie in his lustration statement in declaring that he had not been a communist-era secret service collaborator.
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