Foreign affairs
Lithuania denies entry to 4 Pakistanis with Fan-IDs
Lithuanian border guards last night prevented four Pakistanis with World Cup Fan IDs from entering the country. […]
FIFA World Cup
Foreign affairs
Football fans have smoothly travelled via Lithuania, minister says
Football fans have smoothly travelled from mainland Russia to its exclave of Kaliningrad via Lithuania, Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas said on Thursday. […]
Foreign affairs
Football fans travelled to Russia’s Kaliningrad via Lithuania without incidents
Around 1,600 football fans traveled by train to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad via Lithuania on Thursday night without any incidents, Renatas Požėla, commander of border guards, told BNS Lithuania. […]
Foreign affairs
Around 2,500 football fans cross Lithuanian border en route to Kaliningrad
Around 2,500 football fans crossed the Lithuanian border on Friday night, going on special trains to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. […]
Freetime
New take on FIFA World Cup fever in Vilnius
Much like the rest of Europe, World Cup fever has hit Vilnius. However, focus shifted away from the tournament yesterday and onto another interpretation of the world’s most popular sport – a football-inspired dance performance piece called Match. The performance was one of many that took place yesterday throughout the evening and into the early hours of this morning as part of Vilnius Culture Night, an annual summertime event that transforms the city into numerous open-air stages for music, dance, theatre, cinema and photography. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania denies entry to 3 Ghanaian football fans without Schengen visas
Three Ghanaian nationals travelling by train from mainland Russia to the Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad for FIFA World Cup matches have been denied entry to Lithuania, the border guard chief said on Monday. […]
Economy
Sports
World Cup 2018 qualification: Lithuania in Group F with England
Lithuania, which is competing for participating in Euro 2016 in France against England and Slovenia in Group F, will face these teams also in the clashes for the tickets to the FIFA World Cup that will take place in Russia in 2018. […]
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Lithuanian MEP calls for moving 2018 FIFA World Cup from Russia
Lithuanian MEP Petras Auštrevičius has called for stripping Russia of the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup and move it to some other country, or otherwise boycott the championship. […]