The coup in Turkey
Foreign affairs

President: People of Turkey showed democracy cannot be corked by military force

The people of Turkey showed that democracy cannot be suppressed by military force, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said following the failed attempted military coup in Turkey. […]

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Foreign affairs

‘No Lithuanians hurt’ in Nice attack

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry says it has no information about Lithuanian nationals affected in the terrorist attack in the French seaside resort of Nice where a truck smashed into a crowd in early hours of Friday.

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Abdul Basir Yousuf
Foreign affairs

Afghan refugee family to reunite in Lithuania

The family of an Afghan refugee granted asylum in Lithuania is to rejoin him on Friday.

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Linas Linkevičius
Foreign affairs

NATO-Russia meeting fruitless so far, says Linkevičius

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says that meetings between NATO and Russian diplomats have brought no real benefits so far.

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Culture

How Lithuania’s ham radio operators outfoxed the Soviets and helped win independence

Dictatorial regimes of all kinds have always sought to control communications, especially between those in their own countries and the outside world. With the Internet, their ability to do so has been much reduced; but it is important to remember that, even before the World Wide Web, their control was never quite as complete as many now think. In the struggle between those seeking freedom and those seeking to suppress it, the former have often been able to find ways to outfox the latter.

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Defence

Russia rated ‘as a bigger threat than ISIS by NATO’

NATO now sees Russia as a bigger threat than the so-called Islamic State, according to a senior Lithuanian government adviser. […]

Algirdas Butkevičius
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian PM to attend Asia-Europe summit

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius is to attend the Asia-Europe summit in Mongolia this week.

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