Antalia
Foreign affairs

300 Lithuanian tourists head for Turkey despite attempted coup

Over 300 tourists from Lithuania left for Turkey on Saturday despite reports of a coup attempt in the country.

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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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Jens Stoltenberg, Ash Carter, Curtis Scaparrotti
Defence

NATO and Russia to meet in Brussels amid talk of new Cold War

The Russia-NATO Council will meet today in Brussels for only the second time in two years but many are pessimistic about making real progress as tensions have been rising in the Baltics and Eastern Europe. […]

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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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Dalia Grybauskaitė
Foreign affairs

‘Putin has persuaded NATO members that Russia is a threat’

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions have persuaded all NATO member-states that his country is a real threat, said Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite.

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