Officers of territorial units of the Lithuanian State Guard Service and the Interior Ministry were targeted by Russian and Belarusian security services last year, the State Security Department said. […]
Lithuania’s military intelligence warned on Monday that Russia may decide to apply “hidden military measures” against one of the NATO members, although it is not capable of starting an open military conflict against the Alliance, the Second Investigation Department under the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said on Monday. […]
In its annual threat assessment for the year 2014, Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) stresses that the country’s security environment was most of all influenced by increasingly aggressive activities of Russian and Belarusian intelligence agencies, which were mainly triggered by Vilnius’ principled stance in respect of the conflict in Ukraine. […]
Rimvydas Valatka is leaving the position of editor-in-chief of 15min.lt news portal in Lithuania, the portal said on Monday. […]
Russia’s consul general to Klaipėda Vladimir Malygin was last year sent out of Lithuania as an agent of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service who aimed to collect non-public information about the country’s politics and energy projects, the Lithuanian State Security Department said on Monday. […]
The latest NATO reinforcements will provide further security to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia should Russia decide to act on its increased military activity close to the countries’ borders. […]
This year Lithuania’s basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis will be sharing his shirt number 11 with NATO – on March 29 Lithuania marks the 11th anniversary as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the Ministry of Defence quotes Minister Juozas Olekas on its website. […]
Lithuanian intelligence institutions will Monday present their reviews of national security threats at the country’s parliament. […]
The Lithuanian Liberal Movement has ranked as the country’s second party in terms of popularity after the Social Democratic Party, shows a poll published by delfi.lt news portal. […]
Ten Lithuanian members of the Lithuanian Seimas, elected to local councils in the recent local elections, will stay in the parliament. […]
At a meeting in Berlin on 26 March, Lithuania’s Defence Policy Director of the Ministry of National Defence Dr. Vaidotas Urbelis and Director General for Security and Defence Policy of the Federal Ministry of Defence Geza Andreas von Geyr underlined that Lithuania and Germany saw each other as essential partners for defence cooperation, the Lithuanian ministry reports. […]
StormGeo, the biggest global provider of decision support solutions and services for weather-sensitive operations for the oil and gas, wind energy and shipping industries, is establishing a product development office in Vilnius, the agency Invest Lithuania reports. […]
A grave thought to be a couple of thousand years old has been found in Lithuania’s western district of Klaipėda during the building of a gas main. It contains a unique urn. […]
The Lithuanian Film Centre (LKC) granted EUR 32,700 of state funding for the pre-production of two films. This concludes the first competition for state funding of 2015, the Centre said in a report. […]
Lithuanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė expressed concern during the recent UN Security Council debate on the situation of Christians in the Middle East. […]
The ruling Social Democratic Party of Lithuania say the recent local elections were good but the party is concerned about the situation in major cities where it lost around 9,000 votes, compared to the previous local poll. […]
The Catholic Church in Lithuania is against a group of lawmakers’ proposal to legalize same-sex partnerships in Lithuania, saying that such a move would degrade the family concept, a representative of the Lithuanian Bishops’ Conference says. […]
Russia’s euphoric and triumphalist celebration all this week, marking the one year anniversary of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, has already drawn crowds of people, national flags in abundance, and veterans marching in various cities. Meanwhile, Russia-backed militants continue their attacks in eastern Ukraine testing the fragile truce between Kiev and the separatist forces. A year later since Moscow’s foray into Crimea, there is little evidence of Russia is willing to back down or back out of its aggressive campaign in Ukraine. What often gets blurred in Moscow’s nationalist rhetoric is that fact that Russia’s economic and military interests in Ukraine run deep, making Russia’s pull out from Ukraine unlikely in the medium to long-term. […]
On Monday 23 March, a new world ranking was published by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). […]
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