The Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday examined the circumstances of the recall of Colonel Saulius Pikturna from the post of defense attache to Russia after he married a Russian citizen and failed to notify Lithuania of his new marital status. […]
Lithuania’s first national cyber security exercise, named Cyber Shield 2016, is getting underway on Tuesday, the Defence Ministry said. […]
NATO fighter jets serving in the Alliance’s air-policing mission in the Baltic countries last week were scrambled to identify and escort seven Russian military aircraft flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said on Monday. […]
Lithuania on 23 September formally recalled its defence attache, Saulius Pikturna, from Russia following his marriage to a woman from the Russia-annexed Crimea. […]
The Lithuanian State Defence Council has endorsed an updated National Security Strategy. […]
Nikolai Philiptchenko, a high-ranking Russian intelligence agent charged with espionage against Lithuania, on Friday refused to testify in his trial in the Vilnius Regional Court. […]
Romualdas Lipskis, a former employee of Lithuania’s state air traffic company Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation) sentenced to five years in prison for spying for Belarus, is not contesting his sentence. […]
Lithuania’s Defence Ministry on Tuesday said it was recalling Defense Attache to Russia Saulius Pikturna due to family reasons, however, did not elaborate on media reports about his marriage with a Russian citizen from Crimea. […]
Conference to discuss Lithuanian and regional security challenges was held in Vilnius on October 19. Read the most interesting thoughts from the conference. […]
The Lithuanian Armed Forces are starting an exercise of reconnaissance units on Monday involving about 200 troops. […]
A Polish diplomat stated on Friday that the situation of Polish minorities in Lithuania is worse than that in Belarus, and the outstanding problems may make it difficult to persuade Polish troops to take care of Baltic security. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has given a cautious opinion about the idea proposed by his German counterpart, Frank Walter Steinmeier, to develop new international pacts on arms control in the wake of heightened tensions between NATO and Russia. […]
Nota Bene, a local company, agrees to return the money that the Lithuanian Armed Forces paid for costly kitchen utensils, dubbed by the media as “golden spoons”, and to take the items back from warehouses. […]
Germany’s Karcher-Futuretech maintains it did not supply any kitchen utensils to Lithuanian company Nota Bene, which later sold the items to Lithuania’s Armed Forces, public relations chief of the German enterprise said. […]
German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who is on a visit in Vilnius, has thanked Lithuania for its preparations to host German troops who are to be deployed to the country next year as part of NATO‘s multinational battalion. […]
A top-ranking US diplomat in charge of sanctions says he understands the Lithuanian decision to refuse access to Russian “ropagandists,” although the bans are not practiced by Washington. […]
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