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2015 In Lithuania
Events in the year 2015 in Lithuania. Incumbents *President of Lithuania, President: Dalia Grybauskaitė *Prime Minister of Lithuania, Prime Minister: Algirdas Butkevičius Events January *1 January - Lithuania adopts the Euro and joins Eurozone. *1 January - first commercial operations in Klaipėda LNG FSRU. *1 January - National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania was established. *1 January - Suicide Prevention Centre of Lithuania was established. *15 January - a big storm left 15,000 people without electricity, mostly in Klaipėda county. *16 January - second honorary consulate of Estonia in Lithuania was opened in the city of Kaunas. *26 January - Israel opened its embassy in Vilnius. February *6 February - honorary consulate of India in Lithuania was opened in the capital city of Vilnius. *9 February - Aistė Diržiūtė becomes the first Lithuanian actress to win Shooting Stars Award. *28 February - Lithuania signs a trade agreement to buy liquefied natural gas from the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania shares land borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Russia to the southwest. It has a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west on the Baltic Sea. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.8 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian, one of only a few living Baltic languages. For millennia the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, Monarchy of Lithuania, becoming king and founding the Kingdom of Lithuania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |