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Defence

NATO jets scrambled once from Lithuania last week over Russian warplanes

Fighter-jets serving in the NATO air-policing mission were last week scrambled once from Lithuania to intercept Russian warplanes flying in the international airspace above the Baltic Sea. […]

President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Ukrainian President Petro Porošenko
Foreign affairs

President Dalia Grybauskaite congratulates Ukraine on visa-free travel, calls for further reforms

President Dalia Grybauskaite on Friday congratulated Ukrainians on the start of visa-free travel to the European Union and urged them to continue reforms in order to join the EU and NATO. […]

VDU profesorius Liudas Mažylis šiandien Ambasadoje Berlyne pirmą kartą rodo Vokietijos URM diplomatiniame archyve aptikto Vasario 16 akto nuotraukas
Culture

Germany donates some 50 digital documents to Lithuanian archives

The German Foreign Ministry’s diplomatic archives has donated around 50 digital documents, including a digital copy of Lithuania’s 1918 declaration of independence, to the Lithuanian State Historical Archives, which moved to a new building in Vilnius on Friday. […]

Zapad 2013 Russian military 'lands' on the shores of Kaliningrad
Defence

Baltic PMs say their countries ready, feel safe ahead of Zapad war games

The Baltic prime ministers say that their countries are ready for Zapad, a major military exercise to be held jointly by Russia and Belarus in September, and feel safe after NATO partners have deployed additional capabilities in the region. […]