SocietyAn administrative building of Lithuania's bankrupt bank Snoras in Tallinn has been sold for 1.377 mln euros to Estonia's real estate investment company EE Estate Berlin Invest. On September 21 a team of military instructors formed mainly by military personnel assigned to the Lithuanian Grand Duke Kęstutis Mechanised Infantry Battalion, Motorised Infantry Brigade Žemaitija, was formally deployed to Ukraine. The troops will continue Lithuania’s participation in the United States-led Joint Multinational Training Group – Ukraine. On September 15, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Municipality of Vilnius signed the first part of a EUR 50 million loan facility to support the city’s investment programme for the coming years. The community of VMU as well as the entire country have been deeply shaken by a great loss: we are mourning for Professor Leonidas Donskis, a respectable and beloved colleague, friend and academic, and one of the most prominent thinkers of Lithuania. Professor Donskis was a philosopher, political theorist, historian of ideas, social analyst, political commentator and defender of human rights and civil liberties. He was a professor of Political Science and Head of VMU Academia Cum Laude at Vytautas Magnus University. Gazprom, which lost most of the Lithuanian market this year, will not hold a second auction of gas sales to the Baltic states, but Lithuania's energy minister and market players say this will not cause any problems to the country, which will continue buying gas from Norway's Statoil and other suppliers, or from the Russian gas giant under direct contracts. The European Commission has approved 150 million euros in support for a 345-million-euro biomass and waste-fired cogeneration plant that the state energy group Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy) is building in Vilnius. Lithuania rose three notches to number fifteen, the highest ranking among the three Baltic countries, in the Fraser Institute's latest Economic Freedom of the World report. Latvia’s airBaltic plane Bombardier Q400 NextGen flying from Riga to Zurich on Saturday was forced to return to the Riga airport and make an emergency landing, said airBaltic spokesman Janis Vanags. The Lithuania state is planning to exercise the jurisdictional immunity it is entitled to under international law in a lawsuit brought against it by Vladimir Antonov, a former majority shareholder of the collapsed Lithuanian bank Snoras, which means that it does not agree to the dispute being heard by a Moscow court. UAB Merko bustas, a company of the listed Estonian construction group AS Merko Ehitus, has entered into a preliminary sales and purchase agreement with UAB Hekon, subsidiary of Orbis S.A., to sell upon completion the Ibis hotel building and parking premises to be built on the land plot owned by UAB Merko bustas in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. |
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