The biggest threat to NATO is our own inertness and unwillingness to protect our values, said Kurt Volker, former NATO Ambassador and Executive Director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
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Few Lithuanian employers would we willing to hire refugees. Reluctance to deal with unfamiliar working cultures and differing attitudes towards work is one of the reasons, but companies that have experience of hiring migrant workers say Lithuania needs to open up its labour market to make up for the shortage of skills at home. […]
A case in which a Russian citizen and an former officer of the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base are charged with spying has been handed over to the Šiauliai Regional Court, the Prosecutor General’s Office said. […]
Abdul Basir Yoususi, an Afghan national who once worked as interpreter for Lithuanian troops in Afghanistan‘s Ghor Province and was relocated to the Baltic state a month ago, has been granted refugee status. […]
Lithuania will not respond to an asylum request via YouTube video from an Afghani refugee saying he has worked with Lithuanian troops in Afghanistan, despite having flown in another Afghani interpreter who made his plea several weeks before. […]
A second Afghani refugee has made plea for asylum in Lithuania via a youtube video. The country’s defence minister says, however, that not all Afghanis who worked with Lithuanian troops deserve to be relocated. […]
Taliban fighters staged a suicide attack on April 19 in Kabul. No Lithuanian soldiers participating in the NATO mission Resolute Support in Afghanistan were injured, the Ministry of National Defence has said. Lithuanian soldiers are […]
The story of Abdul Basir Yoususi, an Afghani interpreter who used to work with Lithuanian forces in Ghor Province but had to flee his country for fear of the Taliban’s retribution, introduced a new angle into the refugee debate in Lithuania. […]
Local interpreters who worked with NATO troops in Afghanistan knew they were risking their lives and the compensation many of them received turned out to be inadequate, especially after the Alliance pulled out. […]
Lithuanian politician-businessman Antanas Guoga has pledged to give a job to Abdul Basir Yoususi, an Afghani refugee who caught the nation’s attention last week with a youtube video where he asked, in Lithuanian, for a refuge in the country. […]
Abdul Basir Yoususi, the Afghani refugee who caught Lithuania’s attention in a video revealing himself to have worked as a Lithuanian-speaking interpreter for Lithuanian NATO forces in Afghanistan‘s Ghor province, arrived in Lithuania on Wednesday. […]
Basir Yousof, the Afghani refugee in Greece who made waves in Lithuania after appearing in a video asking for asylum in Lithuania and revealing himself to have worked with Lithuanian forces as an interpreter in Afghanistan‘s Ghor province, may have his request granted after a positive reception from both Lithuanian security institutions and the general public. […]
With the wave of recent terrorist attacks in Europe there is a perception that the threat from terrorism on the continent is higher than ever, but the statistics show that the number of deaths from terrorist attacks in Europe is far lower now than in previous decades. […]
“Laba diena visiems iš Lietuvos,” Basir, a refugee from Afghanistan‘s Ghor Province, addresses people of Lithuania and the country’s president in a youtube video posted by an American journalist from a refugee camp in Greece. […]
Russian television has thrived for months on a diet of victories in Syria. Now that the time has come to spin the news of a withdrawal, the argument is being deployed that it is best to avoid a second Afghanistan. Better still, the exit is being presented as another case of Russia outsmarting the United States. […]
Lithuania will send six additional military police officers to NATO‘s mission in Afghanistan and a water purification unit and staff officers to the United Nations operation in Mali, the Ministry of National Defence told BNS on Tuesday. […]
Many immigrants to Lithuania are happy with their lives here and are not planning to move back to their homelands. A number of immigrants shared their stories on LRT programme Ryto garsai (morning sounds). […]
Starting on 1 January, 2016, a new motorized infantry brigade named Žemaitija will be formed in Western Lithuania. […]
Lithuania will send up to 130 soldiers to international missions in 2016-2017, parliament decided on Tuesday. […]
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