HELLO AGAIN: LITHUANIAN MEDIA PORTAL ABOUT SKYWAY TRANSPORT

The Lithuanian information portal www.technologijij.lt focused on high technologies has posted an article about SkyWay. The published material details the main aspects of transport and infrastructure innovation, demonstrates the current model range of string transport systems, and also describes the SkyWorld program — a number of projects in the fields of organic farming, eco-house building, biotechnology and eco-friendly power generation.

"A few years ago it was just an idea that few people had heard about, but last year thousands of interested people could already appreciate the advantages of the new transport at EcoTechnoPark near Minsk. This innovative EcoTechnoPark is engaged in testing, certification, demonstration and development of new generation transport technologies and their infrastructure complexes," the author notes.

It is noteworthy that it was Lithuania that was initially considered by SkyWay General designer Anatoly Yunitskiy as a country for building EcoTechnoPark in 2014. By agreement with the local authorities, Anatoly Yunitskiy's Lithuanian company paid a million litai (Lithuanian currency) for 30 hectares of land in the free economic zone of Siauliai for the construction of a test site.

However, the plans did not come true: in the same year, the Lithuanian prosecutor's office initiated a pre-trial investigation against Yunitskiy on suspicion of illegal financial activities. The formal reason for this was the statement of the Central Bank that the activities of the Belarusian engineer's companies are fraudulent. Lithuanian special services added fuel to the fire, claiming suspicious that Yunitskiy was planning to build a testing ground in close proximity to the NATO air base.

As a result of pressure from the Lithuanian authorities and the media, the land in Siauliai was taken away, all bank accounts and property of the company (about 1 million euros) were arrested and the inventor had to leave the country together with his family. Even an open letter addressed to the President of Lithuania and filing of a petition in support of the project did not help.

The investigation that lasted about 3 years, have ended predictably in nothing: in 2017, the Vilnius district prosecutor's office adopted a resolution to terminate it, officially recognizing that no data confirming the initial suspicions of bad faith actions by Yunitskiy and his partners in Lithuania have not been collected during the investigation. Frozen financial assets and other property of the companies were returned to their owner.

The fact that a large Lithuanian specialized portal has posted a lengthy and detailed article about SkyWay on its own initiative, written in a positive way, may indicate a change in Lithuanian policy towards Anatoly Yunitskiy and his team. It seems that Lithuanian professionals (and at the same time the media) have finally appreciated the enormous potential that SkyWay carries in itself. This is not surprising — the string transport continues its triumphant march along the most powerful investment platform — the United Arab Emirates. They are already talking about it all over the world, they will soon speak even more, and it would be short-sighted to ignore the "Sky Way" on the part of the Lithuania, which seems to have begun to understand where the promising trends are coming from.

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