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Lithuanian national security – what awaits in the future

January 2, 2017 LT Daily 0

Processes proceeding far from Lithuania and right by its borders lead to the conclusion that challenges to national security have not disappeared. Today it is hard to predict how things will proceed thus national defence is one of the priorities of national security policy. […]

Stationing Iskander in Kaliningrad assertive conduct – NATO general

October 21, 2016 BNS EN 0

Stationing of the nuclear-capable Iskander missile system in the Russian Kaliningrad region between Lithuania and Poland indicates assertive behavior on the Moscow side, NATO‘s top-ranking General Salvatore Farina said in Vilnius on October 20. […]

Russia demonstrates aggression, situation shouldn’t be escalated-Grybauskaitė

October 21, 2016 BNS EN 0

Russia‘s increasingly active military actions are a geopolitical threat to the Western world, however, the situation should be deescalated to avoid major military conflicts, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in Brussels on Thursday. […]

Europe must keep sanctions against aggressive Russia – Grybauskaitė

October 18, 2016 BNS EN 0

Europe must continue its sanctions on Russia amid the Russian military action in Syria and Ukraine, as well as the demonstration of nuclear-capable weaponry in the Baltic Sea region, Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto said at a meeting with his Lithuanian counterpart, Dalia Grybauskaitė, on Tuesday. […]

Russian military ships, aircraft pose no threat to civilians – embassy

October 13, 2016 BNS EN 0

Russian military ships and aircraft, which have become more active in the Baltic Sea recently, pose no threat to civilians, Russia‘s embassy in Vilnius said on Thursday, a day after Lithuania handed a diplomatic note to the ambassador. […]

NATO’s airborne warning aircraft to land in Lithuania

October 13, 2016 BNS EN 0

NATO’s airborne warning and control system (AWACS) airplane is to land on Thursday in the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai, in the northern part of the country, the Defence Ministry said. […]

Lithuania hands note to Russia over incidents in Baltic Sea

October 12, 2016 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday handed a diplomatic note to Russia’s ambassador in Vilnius, Alexander Udaltsov, over incidents in Lithuania’s exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea. […]

Russia deploying Iskander at Lithuanian border to get concessions from West

October 8, 2016 BNS EN 0

Russia is deploying nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius confirmed on Saturday. […]

DefMin declines comment on reports of Iskander being moved to Kaliningrad

October 7, 2016 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian Defenče Ministry declined on Friday to comment on Estonian media reports that Russia is transporting Iskander missiles to its Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad, but added that Russia’s military maneuvers have been a cause for concern for some time now. […]

"Iskander-M" in Kaliningrad region already?

Russia transporting Iskander missile system to Kaliningrad

October 7, 2016 Lithuania Tribune 0

According to a government source known to ERR’s Estonian news portal, the Russian Baltic Fleet is moving an Iskander-M missile system from Ust-Luga to Kaliningrad on a civilian vessel, ERR News reported. […]

Reactions in Moscow to NATO Warsaw summit range from restrained to ridiculous

July 14, 2016 Lithuania Tribune 0

Reactions in Moscow to NATO’s decision to deploy four international NATO battalions in the Baltic states and Poland have ranged from condemnation to calls for the invasion of the Baltic states.

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Complicated Sino-Lithuanian relationship

October 1, 2024 0

As the Seimas elections approach, more parties, especially opposition parties, promise to change their foreign policy. The most significant change, in their view, is in relations with China. The opposition believes that seeing China as […]

Economist speaks out about the unstoppable rise in prices: ‘It’s getting a bit scary’

September 24, 2024 0

Prices in Lithuania decreased by 0.5% over the month, but annual inflation is again approaching the 1% mark. The most significant price increases over the year were in cafes and restaurants – nearly 9%. Some […]

Who could have thought? Germans give us a brigade, we give them electricity

September 20, 2024 0

Rokas Masiulis, the Head of the electricity transmission operator Litgrid, was one of the energy experts who, at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, calmly and even optimistically looked to the future: Lithuania would […]

The EU must stop funding the brutal Cuba regime

September 16, 2024 0

Russia has always been Europe’s enemy. This is something that many of our Western and Central European friends seemed to forget since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not so in Eastern Europe and the […]

Grybauskaitė effect? Among the candidates for Prime Minister, there is also an option that has not yet been named out loud

September 13, 2024 0

With the parliamentary elections just a month away, party leaders are already working out, in public and behind closed doors, the scenarios for the foundations of the future governing coalition and who will lead the […]

Lithuanians will have to open their wallets even wider: goods and services will become more expensive

August 30, 2024 0

According to TV3.lt, Swedbank economists raise their GDP growth forecast for Lithuania and believe the Lithuanian economy will grow the fastest among the Baltic States this year and next. Inflation will likely rise next year, […]