Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence will provide more assistance to Ukraine than planned this year, Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Friday following his phone conversation with Ukraine’s new Defence Minister Colonel Stepan Poltorak. […]
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics came out as gay on Thursday, stirring reactions across the Baltics. Lithuanian foreign minister congratulated his colleague, while a human rights activist says the step could encourage change in Lithuania as well. […]
The biggest Facebook’s LIKE symbol will be lit in Lithuania’s southern resort of Druskininkai on Friday and a symbolic capsule will be buried to mark the start of the construction of a cable car. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will not attend Poland‘s Independence Day commemoration in Warsaw. […]
A Vilnius court on Thursday rejected as unfounded an appeal of Russian citizen Alexander Dyukov who asked the court to revoke Lithuanian border guards’ decision to refuse him entry into the country and delete a relevant entry from the Interior Ministry’s national registry. […]
Lithuania wants to establish diplomatic relations with the Western African Republic of Guinea-Bissau. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday allowed EU citizens who permanently reside in Lithuania to become members of political parties. However, non-Lithuanian citizens will not be allowed to found political parties. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is leaving for Finland on Thursday to attend the fourth meeting of Baltic, Nordic and British prime ministers. […]
Softening the existing sanctions against Russia following the recent “elections” in eastern Ukraine, unrecognized by the West, would be a huge mistake, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
The North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) is responsible for the detention of a Lithuanian fishing vessel, the Jūros Vilkas (Sea Wolf), in Russia and should be required to compensate the losses involved, Lithuania’s foreign minister believes. […]
In the light of the special geopolitical situation in the region, Portugal will continue supporting Lithuania by participating in the NATO air-policing mission, Portuguese Defence Minister Jose Pedro Aguiar-Branco has said in Lithuania. […]
Appointing a statutory officer as interior minister is an unusual decision, since in democratic countries, the so-called “repressive ministries” are mainly headed by politicians, says Lithuanian political scientist Algis Krupavičius. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday appointed Police Commissioner General Saulius Skvernelis as interior minister. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, delegated by Lithuania, plans to go to the three countries in West Africa most affected by the Ebola virus, namely, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. […]
Lithuania would only build an underground natural gas storage facility in Syderiai, north-west Lithuania, if it obtained the European Union’s (EU) support for the 300-million-euro project and if it failed to agree with Latvia on access to the Incukalns storage facility, energy minister has said. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Wednesday congratulated Laimdota Straujuma on her appointment to head the Latvian Cabinet for the second consecutive term. […]
If Lithuania were attacked by a foreign power, 41.7 percent of its people would go to defend the country in case of war, a recent survey has revealed. […]
United States President Barack Obama, a Democrat, will be constrained in his internal policies after the Republican Party took control of the Senate, a Lithuanian political expert says, adding that he will nonetheless continue deciding on key foreign policy issues. […]
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