It has been involved in coordinating Western assistance to the Baltic states ( Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ).

Since the late 1990s, Dublin has experienced a significant level of net immigration, with the greatest numbers coming from the European Union, especially the United Kingdom, Poland and Lithuania.

* Lithuania has an embassy in Helsinki.

Treaty delimiting the boundary with Russia has been signed and ratified in 2007, under the treaty the Abrene district passes to Russia ; ongoing talks over maritime boundary dispute with Lithuania ( primary concern is oil exploration rights )

The largest and most populous of the Baltic states, Lithuania has of sandy coastline which faces the open Baltic Sea, between Latvia and Poland.

Lithuania also has a 227-kilometre border with Russia.

Finally, Lithuania has 108 kilometres of Baltic seashore with an ice-free harbor at Klaipėda.

Lithuania also has 758 rivers longer than ten kilometres.

:: Lithuania has approximately 27 broadcasting stations, but may have as many as 100 transmitters, including repeater stations ( 2001 )

* Lithuania has the fastest internet connection in the world according to the most recent data by netindex. com

According to the study carried out by Ookla Net Metrics, Lithuania has the second fastest internet download and upload speed in the world.

Since the summer of 2005 Lithuania has been part of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan ( ISAF ), leading a Provincial Reconstruction Team ( PRT ) in the town of Chaghcharan in the province of Ghor.

Since joining international operations in 1994 Lithuania has lost two soldiers.

Although a similar bilateral friendship agreement was signed with Belarus in 1995, Lithuania has joined the United States and other European nations in urging the Government of Belarus to adopt democratic and economic reforms.

Lithuania has established diplomatic relations with 149 countries.

* Lithuania has an embassy in Moscow.

* Lithuania has an embassy in Riga.

* Lithuania has an embassy in Warsaw and a consulate general in Sejny.

BI has roughly 1500 students in China through its close relationship with Fudan University in Shanghai, and is also the majority shareholder of the ISM University of Management and Economics ( previously known as International School of Management ) with around 2000 students located in Vilnius and Kaunas in Lithuania.

Along the 20, 139-kilometer land frontier, Russia has boundaries with 14 countries: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland ( via the Kaliningrad Oblast ), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China and North Korea.

The UNCCD has 194 country Parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

The recent success of grape-based vodka in the United States has prompted traditional vodka producers in the Vodka Belt countries of Poland, Finland, Lithuania, and Sweden to campaign for EU legislation that will categorize only spirits made from grain or potatoes as " vodka ".

Since 1994 Lithuania has 10 counties ; before 1950 it had 20.

Lithuania has a three-tier division of local government: the country is divided into 10 counties ( Lithuanian: singular – apskritis, plural – apskritys ) that are further subdivided into 60 municipalities ( Lithuanian: singular – savivaldybė, plural – savivaldybės ) which consist of over 500 elderships ( Lithuanian: singular – seniūnija, plural – seniūnijos ).

From the east, the highest number of men came Lithuania ( 50, 000 ) and the lowest from Bulgaria ( 600 ).

The belief in reincarnation is particularly high in the Baltic countries, with Lithuania having the highest figure for the whole of Europe, 44 %.

It is estimated by geneticists that the gene for blonde hair originated about 3000 BC in the area now known as Lithuania among the recently arrived Proto-Indo-European settlers of the area ( Lithuania is still the country that has the highest percentage of people with blonde hair ); it is thought the gene spread quickly through sexual selection into Scandinavia when that area was settled because men found women with blonde hair attractive.

From 1992 to 1994 Balakauskas was ambassador of Lithuania and in 1996 he was awarded with the Lithuanian National Award, the highest artistic and cultural distinction in Lithuania.

As the highest de jure official of independent Lithuania, he represented Lithuania, advocated for non-recognition of the Soviet occupation, and populiarized the Lithuanian cause.

According to the figures from Eurostat, the European Union's in-house statistical office, Luxembourg had the highest mobile phone penetration rate at 158 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, closely followed by Lithuania and Italy.

For his accomplishments in Lithuanian Wars of Independence defending Lithuania from invaders, Plechavičius was awarded the highest military Order of Lithuania Order of Vytis Cross.

During the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, they were counted as Litvin princes, highest nobility of Lithuania.

Born of the mightiest and highest resident family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( as well as a blood descendant of King Casimir IV of Poland, and Kęstutis and Vytautas, monarchs of Lithuania ), Radziwiłł was the owner of Biržai, Dubingiai, Słuck, and Kopyta, the great Standard-bearer of Lithuania since 1638, the Master of the Stables of Lithuania since 1648, and the Starost barski.

Marszałek (,, ) was one of the highest officials in the Polish royal court since the 13th century and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since the 15th century.

Borys Tarasyuk has been decorated with highest state awards of Argentina, Brazil, France, Lithuania, Portugal, Sweden and Venezuela.

A rich and powerful magnate, he was known for his wisdom as a statesman, lawyer and military commander, he was one of the greatest leaders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the times of the Duchy's highest cultural flourishing.

Šalčininkai contains the highest percentage number of Poles of any city in Lithuania.

The Apostolic Administration was at that time governed by the Apostolic Nuncio from Lithuania and the Vicar General was the highest Church official residing permanently in Estonia.

The government ( foreign policy conduct was the responsibility of Józef Beck ) undertook opportunistic hostile actions against Lithuania and Czechoslovakia, while it failed to control the increasingly fractured situation at home, where fringe groups and extreme nationalist circles were getting more outspoken ( one Camp of National Unity was connected to the new strongman, Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły ).

In early 2009 at least two ISPs in Lithuania offered download speeds of up to 200 Mbit / s in their standard packages for home users.

Many European countries and cultures influenced by them have stories of werewolves, including Albania ( oik ), Armenia ( mardagayl ), Croatia / Bosnia and Herzegovina ( vukodlak ), France ( loup-garou ), Greece ( λυκανθρωπος-lycanthropos ), Spain ( hombre lobo ), Bulgaria ( върколак-varkolak ), Turkey ( kurtadam ), Czech Republic ( vlkodlak ), Slovakia ( vlkolak ), Serbia / Montenegro ( вукодлак-vukodlak ), Belarus ( ваўкалак-vaukalak ), Russia ( оборотень-oboroten ' ), Ukraine ( вовкулака-vovkulaka and перевертень-pereverten ' ), Poland ( wilkołak ), Romania ( vârcolac, priculici ), Macedonia ( vrkolak ), Slovenia ( volkodlak ), Scotland ( werewolf, wulver ), England ( werewolf ), Ireland ( faoladh or conriocht ), Wales ( bleidd-ddyn ), Germany ( Werwolf ), the Netherlands ( weerwolf ), Denmark / Sweden / Norway ( Varulv ), Norway / Iceland ( kveld-ulf, varúlfur ), Galicia ( lobishome ), Portugal / Brazil ( lobisomem ), Lithuania ( vilkolakis and vilkatlakis ), Latvia ( vilkatis and vilkacis ), Andorra / Catalonia ( home llop ), Hungary ( Vérfarkas and Farkasember ), Estonia ( libahunt ), Finland ( ihmissusi and vironsusi ), and Italy ( lupo mannaro ).

The war ended in 1411 with the Peace of Thorn, in which neither Poland nor Lithuania drove home their negotiating advantage to the full, much to the discontent of the Polish nobles.

However, unrest at home and defeat on the Western Front forced Germany to abandon these favorable terms in favor of the Treaty of Versailles, by which the newly acquired eastern territories were agreed to sacrifice the land to Lithuania, Poland, and new nations such as Estonia or Latvia, and a series of short-lived independent states in Ukraine.

In an obituary notice for an East Prussian woman, born in 1939 and deceased in 2009, it was revealed that she had lived under terrible conditions as an orphan without home and shelter in East Prussia and Lithuania.

In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople ; had served the Sultan of Egypt a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, had been vainly offered by him a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron ( al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347 ); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities ; had been in Russia, Livonia, Kraków, Lithuania, " en roialme daresten " ( Dristra or Silistra in Bulgaria ), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself ; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe ( Quilon on the Malabar coast ), and still seemed to feel the better ; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory ( Sumatra ), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north ; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean ; had been at Cansay ( Hangchow-fu ) in China, and had served the emperor of China fifteen months against the king of Mann ; had been among rocks of adamant in the Indian Ocean ; had been through a haunted valley, which he places near " Milstorak " ( i. e. Malasgird in Armenia ); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout ; and had written his book as a consolation for his " wretched rest ".

Lithuania is home to many folk music festivals.

Adomeit was born in Memel in Germany ( now Klaipėda in Lithuania ), but at the age of four he moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, which became his home, and which was where he died in 1967.

They produced a shock 2 – 0 win at home against Lithuania ; their goals were scored by Philippe Erne and Michele Polverino.

Their campaign was a disaster that began with a 3-0 home humiliation to Lithuania and including a 5-0 trashing at Belgrade by Serbia.

( Also, each half of the neighborhood was the childhood home of a future American musical star — the first home of Al Jolson after his family emigrated from what is now Lithuania was on 4 Street, and Marvin Gaye was born in a tenement on First Street.

Lithuania was historically home to a large and influential Jewish community that was almost entirely eliminated during the Holocaust: see Holocaust in Lithuania.

While relationship with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was also exclusive as the home dynasty of Girays used seek sanctuary in Lithuania in 15th century before establishing on Crimean peninsula.

In the World Cup 2006 qualifying round, the Bosnians continued to play good football when matched against teams like Spain ( drawing both times ), Belgium ( one win, one loss ), and Serbia and Montenegro ( one draw, one loss ), but suffered a shock home draw against Lithuania which cost them.

During both the Euro 2000 qualifiers and Euro 2004 qualifiers, they also held Scotland to a draw at home ( they also drew with Lithuania and Bosnia in 2000, while the draw against the Scots was their only point of the 2004 campaign ).

Despite this, the Italian media did not express this comfort after the following two matches were deemed as negative results: a home 1 – 1 draw with Lithuania, followed by a 3 – 1 defeat against France.

Jurgis Kairys was born in Krasnojarsk, Siberia, on May 6, 1952, where his parents were stationed however the family were able to return to their home country of Lithuania when Jurgis was still a small boy.

His interest in flying started at an early age when watching planes landing and taking off at an airstrip near his home in Lithuania.

Wilhelm never had the chance to visit Lithuania, remaining instead at Lichtenstein Castle his home south of Stuttgart ; however he started to learn the Lithuanian language.

Grotthuss was born in 1785 in Leipzig, Germany, during an extended stay of his parents away from their home in northern Lithuania.

He scored once more in a 5 – 0 home victory against Olympiakos Nicosia, and in February he was recalled to Georgia's squad for the friendly against Lithuania.