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A new War and Peace tourist trail will be launched in Vilnius today taking tourists on a tour of where the BBC's War and Peace series was filmed in Lithuania’s capital.

Vilnius University professor Virginijus Šikšnys who has patented a gene editing technology and won an international science prize for the technology recently, stands a good chance of being awarded the Nobel Prize, according to the university's rector, Professor Artūras Žukauskas.

Five scientists including Vilnius University Biotechnology Institute Professor Virginijus Šikšnys, have shared the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for significant contributions to the bacteria CRISPR anti-virus protection system knowledge. This is a revolutionary discovery because it can be applied t...

Trakai, a town in southern Lithuania, is hosting a forum of several dozen Russian intellectuals, journalists, public figures and politicians who will discuss Russia and its relations with the West. The speakers include world chess champion Gary Kasparov, journalist Masha Gessen and a member of Pussy...

Image navigation system has been used for the first time in surgery in the Baltics at a newly opened hybrid cardiac radiosurgery operating room at Vilnius University Santariškės Hospital on February 25-26.

Lithuania is currently undergoing a “medium-sized” political crisis, according to Lithuanian political scientists and analysts, but one that should not threaten the current Government's and ruling coalition's composition.

The scope of wiretapping of telephone conversations in Lithuania has fallen in the last year but critics maintain that court control of the practice remains too weak as Lithuanian judges approve more than 96% of requests from prosecutors.

Lithuania’s new Joint Life (JGMC) and National Physical Sciences and Technology (NFTMC) centres will open on March 15 and Lithuanian scientists hope that modern technology and the knowledge acquired by the centre staff will lay the foundation for the first Lithuanian Nobel Prize.

Institute of Biochemistry scientists at Vilnius University together with the company Sentiero Baltic and Ukrainian partners are developing a unique technology for the diagnosis of kidney diseases.

Prominent Lithuanian journalist Romas Sakadolskis, who had a lengthy career at the US radio station Voice of America, passed away at 68.

Vilnius University's A. J. Greimas Semiotics and Literary Theory Centre has launched an electronic dictionary of literary terms, a cooperation of faculty and doctoral students.

Icelandic policy economist and diplomat Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Michael Shure have received Vilnius University honorary doctorates.

It took almost 10 years for a court's decision regarding the Labour Party's fraudulent bookkeeping in 2004-2006 to come into effect. However, the Vilnius circuit court's altered decision regarding the sentence for Viktor Uspaskich, the party's disgraced founder, raised a storm of commentary. Few see...

Lithuania is doing better in ensuring civil and political liberties than Latvia but lags behind neighbours Poland and Estonia, according to the World Freedom Index published on Wednesday.

An interactive musical park bench has been given to Vilnius by the Polish Embassy to commerorate the closing of the year dedicated to the composer, politician and diplomat Mykolas Kleopas Oginskis (Michał Kleofas Ogiński).

Rotten WiFi, a Lithuanian WiFi watchdog startup in the UK, tested the WiFi connections of more than 350 universities around the world and found that Lithuanian universities dominated the top 10 in their rankings. Five of the top 10 positions belong to Lithuanian universities, and these also occupy t...

President Dalia Grybauskaitė annual press conference appeared more like a speech from an administrator rather than a politician, with a focus on administrative issues like control, inspection and better enforcement, Vilnius University professor Romas Lazutka told LRT Radijas.

The results of Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016 were announced on 2 December. Vilnius University (VU) made its début in the ranking with the 116th spot, making into the list of top 200 higher education institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and 30 other...

During the Lithuanian-Chinese business forum on Monday in Beijing, cooperation agreements were signed between the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei and Vilnius University (VU), Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) and Kaunas University of Technology (KTU).