Defence
Seimas to opens bill to raise wages for intelligence officers
Lithuania’s parliament has opened a government’s proposal to raise wages for intelligence officers. […]
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Baltic States’ friendship: are we bound only by the Americans?
The military cooperation between the Baltic States is based on pressure from outside and not the political aims of the three countries. Only NATO and common threats help us not bicker, Estonia-based International Defence and […]
Defence
Danish PM says Danes protect not only Balts but also themselves by patrolling Baltic skies
Danish troops protect not only the Baltic nations, but also their own country as they conduct NATO’s Baltic air-policing mission, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said during his visit to Lithuania on Monday. […]
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The year ended, the information war continues
One of the most significant events for Lithuania has been the deployment of the German-led NATO battalion. This was a very concrete deterrence measure against Russian aggression, with the latter performing the Zapad military exercise […]
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Kęstutis Girnius. Hybrid wars should not be fought in the dark
Sometimes it is not difficult to predict future developments. With the State Security Department [VSD] naming the Russian Zapad 2017 exercise the main challenge to Lithuanian national security in February, I understood that they are […]
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Cold shower for NATO – German media reveals the shocking goals of Kremlin manoeuvres
The Russian-Belarussian exercise Zapad is defensive and poses no threat to neighbouring countries and the hysteria being incited by the Baltic States that it is an aggressive exercise aimed against NATO states is simply Russophobe […]
Defence
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s president ranks 68th on Forbes’ list of most influential women
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė ranks 68th among the world’s 100 most powerful females published by the US magazine Forbes. […]
Defence
US stops rotating troops in Lithuania, send them to drills – General
The United States have ceased permanent rotation of its Land Forces troops in Lithuania, however, will continue sending them to exercises, says US Lieutenant General Ben Hodges. […]
Defence
Lithuanian security chief: We must avoid hysteria when discussing threats
Darius Jauniškis, the director of the Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD), says that intelligence agencies are increasingly open to communication with the public as they cannot remain invisible services in this information age. […]
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Baltic security in the age of Trump
The election of Donald J. Trump as US President on November 7, 2016 has brought a year of living dangerously for the Baltic States, as the region nervously awaited the arrival of a new Republican […]
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President: we already have to discuss a military Schengen
The Zapad exercise displayed that we have to already begin discussing simplified movement of military equipment among EU countries, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė told LRT Radio. According to her the so called military Schengen is […]
European Union
President off to EU summit to discuss Brexit, EU reforms
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is Thursday leaving for the European Union’s (EU) summit, which will discuss talks on the United Kingdom’s exit from the organization and the bloc’s plans for reforms. […]
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NATO-Russia relations: messages from Zapad 2017
National strategy requires us to analyze across all dimensions relations of power and observe the ways implemented to realize it. When we think about military strategy, we examine operational and tactical doctrine and its application […]
Defence
Russia says its warplanes followed intl practice during flight over Lithuania
Moscow said on Wednesday that two Russian military aircraft violated Lithuanian airspace in late September in order to avoid a storm, which was in line with international rules. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian ambassador in Minsk handed note over Belarusian border violation
Lithuania’s ambassador in Minsk, Andrius Pulokas, on Monday was handed a diplomatic note over a violation of Belarus’ border. […]
Defence
Lithuania get Russian general’s vague calls to free border guard
Lithuanian authorities who have detained a drunk Russian border guards have received conflicting calls from Russia to free the young man – a Russian border general initially said the man was an unemployed handicapped man, however, later admitted he was employed with the Russian border service, according to documents received by BNS. […]
Defence
Zapad involved several times more troops than official numbers – Lithuanian officials
The Zapad 2017 military exercise held by Russia and Belarus last week involved several times more troops than official numbers and saw bombardments and other dangerous actions take place close to the Baltic countries’ borders, top-ranking Lithuanian military intelligence and Defense Ministry officials said on Tuesday. […]
Defence
Defense minister to present initial assessment of Zapad drills
Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis will on Tuesday present an initial assessment of Zapad 2017, a Russia-Belarus joint military exercise that ended last week. […]
Defence
NATO jets in Baltics scrambled 9 times last week over Russian aircraft
NATO fighter-jets patrolling Baltic airspace were scrambled nine times last week to intercept Russian military aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]