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Special Envoy to Vilnius
On the way between the airport and the city center, Sparta, the big Lithuanian sock factory, no longer exists.
And, for a few days, the eponymous bus stop either.
It was renamed “The Unicorns”.
Sewing machines will soon make their way to the screens of Cyber City, the headquarters of Tesonet, a company specializing in cybersecurity, one of the two Lithuanian unicorns, these digital companies worth more than 1 billion euros.
A few steps further, on the other side of the street, stand the offices of Vinted, the famous second-hand clothing sales platform created in Lithuania, which also became a unicorn in 2019.
Naujamiestis, “new town” in Lithuanian, is the old industrial district of Vilnius, which appeared on the map at the end of the 19th century, when the country was still a…
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