A drone
Defence

Lithuanian border guards spot drone flight from Kaliningrad

Lithuanian border guards registered an unmanned aircraft entering the country’s territory from the Russian Kaliningrad region in early hours of December 29. […]

Saulius Skvernelis
Politics

PM sees parlt elections as major 2016 event in Lithuania

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis sees the October parliamentary elections, which changed the country’s political map, as the most important 2016 event in the country, noting that the terrorist attacks in Europe were the most important worldwide. […]

Money
CORPORATE

President signs 2017 state budget

President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed under the 2017 state budget project which already passed in Seimas. […]

Minister of Defence Raimundas Karoblis at the DELFI TV conference
Defence

Minister of Defence on his plans for national defence infrastructure

Raimundas Karoblis’ name has so far not been well known in Lithuania. A career diplomat with over 20 years of experience, he himself was surprised by the proposal to become Minister of National Defence. He is inheriting a ministry with both an impressively rising budget and at the same time – the taint of corruption, but the former diplomat tells Delfi TV that in the end he decided to operate on the idea of “If need be, then so be it”. […]

At the training
Defence

Seimas speaker backs idea of military training at schools

Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis supports the re-introduction of military training at schools, an idea raised by Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU). […]