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Klaipėda–Kuršėnai Pipeline
Klaipėda–Kuršėnai pipeline () is a natural gas pipeline serving as capacity expansion that connects Klaipėda LNG FSRU with northern Lithuania. History Project started in 2013, when Lithuanian parliament agreed to nationalise 550 private territories for project building. In 2014 construction works began. On 2 October 2015 Klaipėda–Kuršėnai pipeline was officially opened for commission. Total cost of the construction was 63.7 million €. In April 2022 President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda announced that Lithuanian national gas transmission operator Amber Grid and Lithuania has completely stopped purchasing the Russian gas and the transmission system has been operating without Russian gas imports since the beginning of April with no intention to receive the Russian gas in the future via Minsk–Kaliningrad Interconnection. Lithuania became the first EU country to end imports of Russian gas following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. As a result, Klaipėda–Kur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian exclave, semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.89 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities include Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians who are the titular nation and form the majority of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian. For millennia, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united for the first time by Mindaugas, who formed the Kingdom of Lithuania on 6 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaipėda
Klaipėda ( ; ) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. It is the List of cities in Lithuania, third-largest city in Lithuania, the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, fifth-largest city in the Baltic States, and the capital of Klaipėda County, as well as the only major seaport in the country – the Port of Klaipėda, which is also the busiest port in the Baltic States. The city has a complex recorded history, partially due to the combined regional importance of the usually ice-free port at the mouth of the river . It was located in Lithuania Minor, and the State of the Teutonic Order and Duchy of Prussia under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, then the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, within which it was the northernmost big city until it was placed under French occupation in 1919. From 1923, the city was part of Lithuania until its annexation by Nazi Germany in 1939, and after World War II it was part of the Lithuanian Soviet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuršėnai
Kuršėnai (; Samogitian dialect, Samogitian: ''Koršienā'') is a city in northwestern Lithuania, Šiauliai County, Šiauliai district municipality. It is the twenty-fifth largest city in Lithuania. According to the 2023 estimate, it had 10,651 residents. Etymology The city's name was first documented in the 16th century. According to historian , its name is derived from the word ''kuršis'' (Curonians, Curonian). However, according to folk etymology, folk legend, the city didn't have a name for a long time. But, one summer day the river Venta (river), Venta flooded and washed all hay bales which were standing at the river banks. People started questioning each other: where is the hay? where is the hay? („Kur šienai? Kur šienai?“). Since then, the city name stayed as Kuršėnai. In other languages the town is referred to as: ''Kurshon''; ; ; . History Early history The town and its surroundings fall within the boundaries of the territory inhabited by the ancient Samogi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber Grid
AB Amber Grid is the main natural gas transmission operator in Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P .... It was established in 2013 by spin-off of gas transmission operations from the gas company Lietuvos Dujos. Amber Grid owns all main List of main natural gas pipelines in Lithuania, pipelines in Lithuania, including natural gas compressor stations and natural gas metering and distribution stations. Amber Grid is a member of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG). In April 2022, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda announced that Lithuanian national gas transmission operator Amber Grid and Lithuania has completely stopped purchasing Russian gas and the transmission system has been operating without Russian gas imports since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaipėda LNG FSRU
Klaipėda ( ; ) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. It is the List of cities in Lithuania, third-largest city in Lithuania, the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, fifth-largest city in the Baltic States, and the capital of Klaipėda County, as well as the only major seaport in the country – the Port of Klaipėda, which is also the busiest port in the Baltic States. The city has a complex recorded history, partially due to the combined regional importance of the usually ice-free port at the mouth of the river . It was located in Lithuania Minor, and the State of the Teutonic Order and Duchy of Prussia under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, then the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, within which it was the northernmost big city until it was placed under French occupation in 1919. From 1923, the city was part of Lithuania until its annexation by Nazi Germany in 1939, and after World War II it was part of the Lithuanian Soviet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verslo žinios
''Verslo žinios'' (English: ''Business news'') is a leading Lithuanian business newspaper and internet portal published in Vilnius since 1995 and online since 2000. Swedish Bonnier Business Press group holds an 80% stake in ''Verslo žinios''. The remaining owner is newspaper's founder and editor-in-chief . The newspaper and websitVZ.ltis published by UAB "Verslo žinios" which also publishes magazine ''Verslo klasė'', since 2003 organizes conferences, of which the best known are "Gazelė", "Password", "Best internet", Baltic Real Estate Forum, Investo's Festival, among others, owns database websiteRekvizitai In 2024, it's ''cv.lt'' was bought by the of |
President Of Lithuania
The president of the Republic of Lithuania () is the head of state of the Republic of Lithuania. The president directs and appoints the executive branch of the Government of Lithuania, represents the nation internationally and is the commander-in-chief of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. The president is directly elected by the citizens of Lithuania for a five-year term, with the office holder limited to serving two terms consecutively. The current president is Gitanas Nausėda who assumed office on July 12, 2019. Eligibility To be eligible for election, candidates must be at least 40 years old on the election day and reside in Lithuania for at least three years, in addition to satisfying the eligibility criteria for a member of the parliament. A person who has been removed from office through impeachment for breach of constitution or an oath of office may not be elected as a president. Powers The Lithuanian president has somewhat more executive authority than their counterpart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gitanas Nausėda
Gitanas Nausėda (; ; born 19 May 1964) is a Lithuanian politician, economist, and banker who is serving as the ninth and incumbent president of Lithuania since 2019. Born in Klaipėda, Nausėda graduated from Vilnius University with an economics degree in 1987. He was director of monetary policy at the Bank of Lithuania from 1996 to 2000 and chief economist to the chairman of SEB bankas from 2008 to 2018. Nausėda entered politics in 2019, running as an independent candidate in the 2019 Lithuanian presidential election. In the second round of the election, he defeated the independent (but Homeland Union-endorsed) Ingrida Šimonytė, with 66% of the vote. His success has been attributed to his moderate, "catch-all" profile. As president, Nausėda oversaw Lithuania's response to the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He has had a difficult relationship with the Šimonytė Cabinet, including proposals of impeachment and several political scanda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minsk–Kaliningrad Interconnection
The Minsk–Kaliningrad Interconnection () is a natural gas pipeline interconnection between Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, Lithuania and Belarus. Currently, it is the only pipeline supplying natural gas to Kaliningrad Oblast. Lithuania has a contract with Gazprom on gas transit to Kaliningrad via pipeline until 2025. History The construction of the pipeline was completed in 1988. In 2005, Gazprom built the Krasnoznamenskaya compressor station. In 2009, the second line of the pipeline was finished, which allowed the expanded maximum discharge of up to 2.5 billion cubic metres annually. In 2016, a 25 km gas pipeline branch to Chernyakhovsk and an automated gas distribution station were put into service. In October 2017, Gazprom completed the construction of two gas pipeline branches stretching to the towns of Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast, Gusev and Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Sovetsk. In April 2022, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda announced that Lithuanian national ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War, military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million Ukrainian refugee crisis, had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's List of largest refugee crises, largest refugee crisis since World War II. In late 2021, Russia Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, massed troops near Ukraine's borders and December 2021 Russian ultimatum to NATO, issued demands to the Western world, West i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
