The scope of national security threats is changing with the European Union and NATO becoming the main target, the head of the Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence said on Wednesday after a meeting at the State Security Department. […]
Lithuania needs a bigger defence budget to ensure cyber security and prepare for universal military conscription, says Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence, which has recently called on political parties to commit to increasing defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP in 2020. […]
The Lithuanian State Defence Council on Monday approved the country’s intelligence needs and priorities for this year. […]
The Lithuanian State Defence Council is holding a meeting on Monday where top officials of the country and heads of intelligence institutions should discuss and approve needs and priorities of intelligence information for this year. […]
A Šiauliai court on Friday finished hearings in an espionage trial of a former Lithuanian officer and a Russian citizen whom prosecutors want sentenced to six and 13 years in prison, respectively. […]
Lithuania’s authorities have taken steps to halt plans for building what would be the country’s largest data centre near Vilnius following an intelligence warning that it may be hooked up to a Russian spying centre. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis says that MPs need training by the State Security Department to be able to resist threats from the outside and influence of foreign countries. […]
The Lithuanian State Security Department has refused to comment on the media reports about the US intelligence warning Lithuania about Russian attempts to tip election results. […]
Lithuania’s parliament has adopted the electronic communications act article 77 amendments that will require entities or companies providing electronic communications networks and (or) services to provide information about developments in electronic communications to intelligence authorities. […]
Lithuania’s parliament has decided that current laws allow manipulation of statements based on secret criminal intelligence and that disclosure of such information should be considered a crime. […]
Foreign intelligence agencies keep approaching Lithuania’s border guards in order to recruit them, the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) said on Friday. Six such attempts were reported last year. […]
Four attempts by foreign services to recruit officers of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service were documented in 2015, the service said on Friday. […]
Russia‘s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday it had detained a Lithuanian intelligence officer. Lithuanian officials have not provided any comment on the report. […]
On Wednesday, a high officer in the Polish military was detained on suspicions of spying for Russia. The Lithuanian State Security Department says it has spotted attempts by the Russian intelligence to recruit spies in this country, too. […]
The Lithuanian State Security Department has issued a warning about a significant surge in Russian intelligence activities in both Lithuania and other countries. The Department has even published a booklet, explaining ordinary citizens the aims and methods of foreign intelligence agencies. […]
Over the last decade, eleven intelligence officers from foreign countries have been sent out of Lithuania because of their spying activities, according to a publication issued by the country’s State Security Department on Wednesday. […]
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