2018 FIFA World Cup Archives - the Lithuania Tribune

‘No special easing’ of requirements for football fans traveling to Russia via Lithuania

April 19, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian officials say that there will be “no special easing” of requirements for football fans who will travel via Lithuania to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad for 2018 FIFA World Cup matches. […]

Lithuanian, Russian officers discuss preparations for 2018 FIFA World Cup

April 18, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian and Russian officers gathered in the border city of Pagegiai on Wednesday to discuss handling of bigger flows of travelers to the Russian Kaliningrad region for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. […]

Number of transit trains via Lithuania to triple during soccer championship in Russia

March 19, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian and Russian officials have agreed to triple the number of passenger trains to the Russian Kaliningrad region when the Russian exclave hosts matches of the FIFA World Cup. […]

Crimean Tatars call for non-recognition of Russian elections, FIFA World Cup boycott

March 6, 2018 BNS 0

Leaders of the Crimean Tatar parliament on Monday called on the West not to recognize Russia’s upcoming presidential elections and to boycott this summer’s FIFA World Cup in Russia. […]

Lithuanian Railways to run pilot train between Klaipeda and Sovetsk

December 29, 2017 BNS 0

Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) will in early January run a pilot passenger train between the Lithuanian seaport of Klaipėda and Sovetsk, a border town in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. […]

After Nausėda meeting with Budrys, the opposition retorts to the candidate’s “cooling off “

November 22, 2024 0

Kęstutis Budrys, the President’s Senior Adviser, who has been nominated for the post of Minister of foreign affairs, does not say whether he first discussed the possibility of taking up the post with President Gitanas […]

“No need to mince words”: an assessment of what Trump’s victory means for Lithuania

November 6, 2024 0

“We can shout very loudly, but it won’t change the position of the American people,” says Professor Tomas Janeliūnas, as the winner of the United States of America’s (USA) presidential election, which will almost certainly […]

Another year in the sovereign history of Kazakhstan

October 24, 2024 0

Republic Day has been celebrated in Kazakhstan as the main national date since 2022, giving new life to the fundamental document on state sovereignty—the Declaration of October 25, 1990. The Republic is a modern form […]

In the assessment of NATO’s readiness for war with Russia, there is also a warning about the Baltic states: what is the Kremlin’s wild card?

October 23, 2024 0

According to Lrytas.lt, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) faces a new geopolitical reality with the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. While the Alliance has begun responding to emerging threats, its readiness for […]

These parties will enter the Seimas for the third time in a row. How many votes did they lose, and how many did they gain?

October 15, 2024 0

As various parties emerge, disappear or reorganize themselves in the political space, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats – TS-LKD) and the Liberal Movement are making […]