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“Zapad” approaching, Chair of Defence Committee says: quality of security’s changed drastically
In the report of the Second Investigation Department given to the Parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee (CNDS) talks about threats to Lithuania from the large-scale Russian and Belarusian armed forces exercise “Zapad” which will […]
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Vilnius institute wants students about Russian intelligence officer
Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science (VU TSPMI) has warned its students that a Russian intelligence officer mentioned in Lithuanian intelligence bodies’ report on national security threats has been seen attending the institute’s events. […]
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President Grybauskaitė attends NATO summit in Brussels
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday is attending NATO‘s summit in Brussels that is expected to focus on defense funding and the Alliance’s role in the fight against terrorism. […]
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Guzas appointed Lithuania’s new air force commander
Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis has appointed Lieutenant Colonel Dainius Guzas as the new commander of the Lithuanian Air Force, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. […]
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Lithuania’s ex-air force commander says nobody planned to repair helicopters in Russia
Audronis Navickas, a former Lithuanian Air Force commander, says that “nobody was ever going” to send Russian-made Mi-8 helicopters, which are used in Lithuania for rescue and search operations, to Russia for an overhaul. […]
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Police detain 12 men with airsoft guns in forest close to Vilnius
Police on Sunday morning detained 12 men with airsoft guns in a forest near Nemenčinė, in the district of Vilnius, the Lithuanian Police Department said. […]
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Lithuania extends professional military service length by 5 yrs
Professional military servicemen and servicewomen will be able to serve in the Lithuanian Armed Forces for around five years longer than they do now. […]
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Lithuania pursues counter-terror cooperation, ForMin tells UK counterpart
Lithuania will continue to cooperate with the United Kingdom and international community in counter-terrorism efforts, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said as he offered his condolences to British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over Monday’s deadly explosion in Manchester. […]
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Government to set up national security commission
Government officials on Monday confirmed plans to establish a National Security Commission to help deal with crises. […]
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NATO communications exercise gets underway in Lithuania
Around 1,200 troops from 25 NATO member states are taking part in the communications units exercise Steadfast Cobalt, which officially got underway in Lithuania on Sunday. […]
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Polish airmen scrambled for 1st time from Lithuania over Russian warplane
Polish fighter-jets serving in the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states were for the first time scrambled over a Russian warplane flying above the Baltic Sea. […]
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US special operations chief to visit parliament, observe exercise in Pabrade
General Raymond Thomas, commander of the United States Special Operations Command, is visiting Lithuania on Friday to meet with Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis and observe an exercise in Pabrade, central Lithuania. […]
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Over 1,000 troops of NATO communications battalion to train in Kaunas, Lithuania
Troops of the communications battalion of the Jaegers’ Battalion of Vytautas the Great based in Kaunas, Lithuania, are readying for a military exercise, with over 1,000 NATO communications officers planned to train in Kaunas in the framework of the Steadfast Cobalt exercise. […]
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PM views Lithuanian institutions’ stance on cyber security unsatisfactory
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the attention on cyber security in institutions in Lithuania is insufficient. […]
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Lithuanian firms plan to go ahead with data center project
AmberCore DC and Arcus Novus, the developers of a data center project suspected of links to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), have reached a deal with prosecutors to annul their transactions that had received a negative opinion from a government commission, the State Security Department and the Prosecutor General’s Office. […]