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Defence

New €5.6m military building to house foreign troops in Šiauliai

A new dormitory will be built at the Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai to house foreign soldiers on short stays during redeployment, exercises and for the NATO air policing mission. […]

(S.Žiūros nuotr.)
Economy

Tourist boost kicks off from BBC’s ‘War and Peace’ in Lithuania

The filming of War and Peace is already generating huge interest in visitor trips to Lithuania, with leading newspapers in the UK running features on how tourists can come to experience some of the locations from the blockbuster series. […]

NATO
Defence

NATO needs to build bigger deterrence capability in Baltic States, says deputy head

NATO needs to build its deterrence capability against Russia in Baltic and Eastern European states to deal with increased numbers of Russian troops stationed on NATO’s borders, said NATO deputy Secretary General, Alexander Vershbow. […]

Gabrielius Landsbergis, Irena Degutienė
Politics

Conservatives confirm candidate roster for October’s elections

One of Lithuania’s major parties, the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has finalized a list of candidates to run in single-member constituencies in October’s general elections. […]