Israel's Knesset
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Speaker of Israel’s Knesset to visit Lithuania

Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, the speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, is coming to Lithuania on Tuesday. […]

Letter from Lithuanian envoy in Moscow L. Natkevičius, 1940
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US State Dept publishes historical documents important to Lithuania

The United States Department of State has published 32 volumes of digitalized documents about US ties with foreign countries, which includes documents that are important for Lithuania, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. […]

No Picture
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PM sees potential of improving ties with Poland

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, currently on a visit in Poland, says he sees a good possibility to improve the bilateral relations, which are, in his opinion, marred by the wrong stereotypes over the situation of national minorities. […]

Kruonis hydroelectric power plant
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Lithuanian ministry drafts plan for blocking power from Belarus’ N-plant (Updated)

As part of efforts to force Belarus to ensure that its Astravyets nuclear plant is built safely and according to international standards, Lithuania’s authorities plan to restrict the transmission capacity for electricity from Belarus and to impose a transmission charge on power imports from it, as well as to ban the Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant from providing services to the neighboring country. […]

Viktoras Pranckietis
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Seimas speaker becomes 1st high-ranking EU official to visit border with Crimea

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, on Friday visited a checkpoint on the administrative boundary line between Ukraine‘s southern Kherson region and Crimea, which was annexed by Russia more than three years ago. […]