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Ban on 44 Russians to enter Lithuania takes effect
The heads of the Lithuanian Interior Ministry and the Migration Department signed on Monday decrees barring another 44 Russian citizens from entering the country. […]
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Ahead of expulsion of diplomats, Russian ambassador summoned to Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Russia’s Ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov was Monday summoned to the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry. […]
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Ukraine’s new Constitutional Court chairman visiting Lithuania
The new chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Stanislav Shevchuk, is visiting Vilnius on Monday to meet with Lithuania’s officials and discuss support to the Ukrainian legal system reform. […]
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Lithuanian foreign minister meets with Khodorkovski in Vilnius
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Sunday met with Mikhail Khodorkovski, one of Russia’s opposition leaders and the founder of the Open Russia movement. […]
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Seimas to host meeting of NATO Parliamentary Assembly committee
The Standing Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will hold a meeting at the Lithuanian parliament. […]
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Belarusians celebrating 100 yrs of statehood in Vilnius
Belarusians living in Lithuania have started celebrating 100 years of their country’s statehood in Vilnius. […]
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Russian activist en route to Lithuania detained at Moscow airport
A Russian activist traveling to a discussion in Vilnius was apprehended at the Moscow airport on Thursday. […]
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Europe shouldn’t wage trade wars with US – Lithuanian president
The European Union should not wage a trade war with the United States, as it would harm both sides, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
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EU, NATO to coordinate response after spy poisoning in UK – Lithuanian president
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the European Union and NATO will coordinate their response to Moscow in the wake of the poisoning of a Russian former double agent in the United Kingdom. […]
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Lithuanian president to discuss energy, EU-US trade in Brussels
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will meet in Brussels on Thursday with Latvian, Estonian, Polish and European Commission leaders to discuss the Baltic countries’ plans to disconnect their power grids from the Soviet-era BRELL ring and synchronize them with Western Europe. […]
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Baltic reactions split: Estonia congratulates Putin on re-election, Lithuania doesn’t
The reaction of the Baltic states on re-election of Vladimir Putin as Russia‘s president has split – Estonia‘s president sent a congratulatory message to Moscow, while Lithuania’s leader decided to refrain. […]
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PM doesn’t expect easier relations with Russia after Putin’s re-election
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis does not expect easier relations with Russia after Vladimir Putin was on Sunday re-elected for another six-year term as president. […]
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Poles may join Lithuanians in Mission Siberia next year
Young people from Poland may join Lithuanians in next year’s expedition to Siberia to clean up deportees’ graves, the head of the Mission Siberia project said. […]
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Lithuania does not see Russian presidential election free, democratic – formin
Russian presidential elections were not free or democratic, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, adding that the country’s future relations with Lithuania would depend on the course chosen by the Kremlin. […]
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85 percent of Russian citizens in Lithuania voted for Putin – embassy
Less than half of eligible Russian voters in Lithuania cast ballots in the Sunday’s Russian presidential elections, with the bulk of them supporting incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]
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Russian voters in Lithuania voted in presidential election
Hundreds of Russians living in Lithuania on Sunday voted in the Russian presidential elections, which were triumphant to the country’s incumbent President Vladimir Putin. […]
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Seimas speaker, Polish Senate chair discuss resumption of assembly’s work
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis met with visiting Polish Senate Chairman Stanislaw Karczewski in Vilnius on Friday and discussed the possibility of resuming operations of the bilateral parliamentary assembly. […]
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Vilnius’ response to Minsk: No incidents occurred at Ignalina N-plant
Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has stated that no incidents that would be dangerous to the public had occurred at the shutdown Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). […]