State Security Department
Defence

Security body fires intelligence officer over conflict of interest

The Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD) said on Friday that it has fired Tomas Jakučionis, an intelligence officer, over a conflict of interest. […]

Riga Conference 2017
Uncategorized

The Rīga Conference 2017 Live Stream

On 29–30 September, the National Library of Latvia in Rīga is hosting an annual international forum called The Rīga Conference 2017, which is dedicated to foreign policy and security matters. The conference is organised by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence. […]

Old books
History

Educational Commission in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Pope Clement XVI’s decree pronouncing the closure of the Jesuit Order reached the Lithuanian and Polish Commonwealth in 1773. Jesuits have financed a number of schools in Lithuania and Poland, including the Academy of Vilnius. The state faced the tasks of making use of the huge wealth of the Order and of finding new supervisors of the schools or, in other words, of solving problems in the area of education. […]

Thomas Mann house in Nida, by Daumantas
History

Valuable collection of Mann’s books donated to Lithuanian museum

A valuable collection of books has been handed over to the Thomas Mann Memorial Museum in Lithuania’s Curonian Spit resort of Nida, LRT Television has reported. […]

Military exercise in Rukla
Defence

Lithuania to build new barracks in Rukla

New barracks are planned to be built in Rukla, in central Lithuania, in 2019, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday. […]

Pro Independence demo in Barcelona
European Union

Comparison of Catalonian, Baltic independence ideas wrong – Foreign Minister Linkevičius

Comparing the Catalonian aspirations to break free from Spain with the Baltic states’ movement to gain independence from the Soviet Union would be incorrect, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]