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Persons who fail to pay administrative fines in time should not be issued new driver’s licenses and gun permits, the Lithuanian Interior Ministry has suggested. […]

Fighter jets F4 "Phantom" in Šiauliai airport on the NATO air policing mission

Foreign Minister going to Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai

Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is Tuesday going to the Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania. […]

President’s Office sees KGB scam as another provocation

The office of Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė have dismissed as “yet another information provocation” the hacker attack of the website publishing KGB activities, where the hackers uploaded a Soviet-era file on Grybauskaitė. […]

Lithuania may contribute funds to new Chernobyl cover

Lithuania may contribute some funds to a new protective cover to be built over the destroyed fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. […]

Soviet colonel recruited Lithuanian officer – military intelligence

A former colonel from the Soviet Union had recruited an officer of the Lithuanian Air Force to spy for Russia, Lithuania’s military intelligence said on Monday. […]

Lithuanians are greeting 'Independence' LNG floating facility entering Klaipėda port

Russia trying to tune public opinion against energy independence in Lithuania – Report

Russia is using Lithuania’s public space to form an opinion against energy independence of Lithuania and the entire European Union (EU), the State Security Department (VSD) said in its 2014 report about threats to national security. […]

Russian, Belarusian special services aimed to recruit Lithuanian border guards – report

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. […]

Russia's soldiers (green men) without insignias in Crimea

Russia may resort to “hidden military measures” against NATO member – report

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. […]

Valatka leaving post of editor-in-chief of 15min.lt news portal

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, MP I. Rozova of the Russian Alliance iand MEP W. Tomaszewski of the Polish Election Action at a veterans meeting in Klaipėda

Russian consul to Klaipėda was spy

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. […]

Intelligence institutions to present assessment of national security threats

Lithuanian intelligence institutions will Monday present their reviews of national security threats at the country’s parliament. […]

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Liberal Movement climbs to 2nd place of popularity ladder after Social Democrats

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. […]

10 Lithuanian MPs elected to local councils to stay in Seimas

March 29, 2015 BNS EN 0

Ten Lithuanian members of the Lithuanian Seimas, elected to local councils in the recent local elections, will stay in the parliament. […]

Lithuanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė

Lithuanian UN rep expresses concern about Christian situation in Middle East

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. […]

Social Democrats call election “ok”, worried about major cities

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. […]

Gay partnerships would degrade family concept – Lithuanian Catholic Church

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. […]

Ukraine would not withstand oligarchic war – expert in Vilnius