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[279] Nowadays, the country is among moderate innovators group in the International Innovation Index. [280] and in the European Innovation Scoreboard ranked 15th among EU countries. [281] Lithuania was ranked 39th in the Global Innovation Index in 2021[282][283][284][285] Lasers and biotechnology are flagship fields of the Lithuanian science and high tech industry. [286][287] Lithuanian "Šviesos konversija" (Light Conversion) has developed a femtosecond laser system that has 80% marketshare worldwide, and is used in DNA research, ophthalmological surgeries, nanotech industry and science. [288][289] Vilnius University Laser Research Center has developed one of the most powerful femtosecond lasers in the world dedicated primarily to oncological diseases. [290] In 1963, Vytautas Straižys and his coworkers created Vilnius photometric system that is used in astronomy.
Kalėdos Commemorates birth of Jesus Sports Basketball is the most popular and national sport of Lithuania. The Lithuania national basketball team has had significant success in international basketball events, having won the EuroBasket on three occasions (1937, 1939 and 2003), as well a total of 8 other medals in the Eurobasket, the World Championships and the Olympic Games. The men's national team also has extremely high TV ratings as about 76% of the country's population watched their games live in 2014.
More recently, the gold medal won by a then 15-year-old swimmer Rūta Meilutytė at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London sparked a rise in popularity for the sport in Lithuania. Lithuania has produced prominent athletes in athletics, modern pentathlon, road and track cycling, chess, rowing, aerobatics, strongman, wrestling, boxing, mixed martial arts, Kyokushin Karate, and other sports. Lithuania hosted the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup, the first time Lithuania had hosted a FIFA tournament. [497] Few Lithuanian athletes have found success in winter sports, although facilities are provided by several ice rinks and skiing slopes, including Snow Arena, the first indoor ski slope in the Baltics.
The 5, 000 border guards fall under the Interior Ministry's supervision and are responsible for border protection, passport and customs duties, and share responsibility with the navy for smuggling and drug trafficking interdiction. A special security department handles VIP protection and communications security. In 2015 National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania was created. Paramilitary organisation Lithuanian Riflemen's Union acts as a civilian self-defence institution.
48% of total project numbers. [248] Based on the Eurostat's data, in 2017, the value of Lithuanian exports recorded the most rapid growth not only in the Baltic countries, but also across Europe, which was 16. 9 per cent. [249] In the period between 2004 and 2016, one out of five Lithuanians emigrated, primarily due to insufficient income for residents;[250] secondarily seeking to study abroad.
[372] Poles in Lithuania are the largest minority, concentrated in southeast Lithuania (the Vilnius region). Russians in Lithuania are the second largest minority, concentrated mostly in Vilnius (12%)[373] and Klaipėda (19. 6%), [374] as well as Visaginas (52%). [375] About 3, 000 Roma live in Lithuania, mostly in Vilnius, Kaunas and Panevėžys; their organizations are supported by the National Minority and Emigration Department. [376] For centuries, a small Tatar community has flourished in Lithuania. [377] The official language is Lithuanian, but in some areas there is a significant presence of minority languages such as Polish, Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian. The greatest presence of minorities and the use of these languages are in Šalčininkai District Municipality, Vilnius District Municipality and Visaginas Municipality. Yiddish is spoken by members of the tiny remaining Jewish community in Lithuania.
[494] Lithuania hosted the Eurobasket in 1939 and 2011. The historic Lithuanian basketball team BC Žalgiris, from Kaunas, won the European basketball league Euroleague in 1999. Lithuania has produced a number of NBA players, including Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Arvydas Sabonis and Šarūnas Marčiulionis, [495] and current NBA players Jonas Valančiūnas, Domantas Sabonis, and Ignas Brazdeikis.
[498] In 2018 Lithuania men's national ice hockey team won gold medals at the 2018 IIHF World Championship Division I. [499] See also Index of Lithuania-related articles List of Lithuanians Outline of Lithuania Notes ^ a b Various sources classify Lithuania differently for statistical and other purposes. For example, United Nations, [14] and Eurovoc (which additionally classifies Lithuania as central and eastern European country), [15] among others, classify it as northern Europe, the CIA World Factbook[16] classifies it as eastern Europe, and Encyclopædia Britannica locates it in northeastern Europe. [17] Usage varies greatly, and controversially, [18] in press sources.
[496] Lithuania men's national basketball team is ranked eighth worldwide in FIBA Rankings. Lithuania has won a total of 26 medals at the Olympic Games, including 6 gold medals in athletics, modern pentathlon, shooting, and swimming. Numerous other Lithuanians won Olympic medals representing Soviet Union. Discus thrower Virgilijus Alekna is the most successful Olympic athlete of independent Lithuania, having won gold medals in the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens games, as well as a bronze in 2008 Summer Olympics and numerous World Championship medals.
Over a millennium, the Indo-Europeans, who arrived in the 3rd – 2nd millennium BC, mixed with the local population and formed various Baltic tribes. [31] The Baltic tribes did not maintain close cultural or political contacts with the Roman Empire, [32] but they did maintain trade contacts (see Amber Road). Tacitus, in his study Germania, described the Aesti people, inhabitants of the south-eastern Baltic Sea shores who were probably Balts, around the year 97 AD.
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