Lithuania now has more possibilities to import natural gas than it had before and in the future it will hold gas supply negotiations with Russia only on a commercial basis, Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis said after meeting with Russia’s ambassador to Lithuania in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
On 23 February – 1 March 2015, NATO fighter jets patrolling the Baltic airspace were scrambled to identify and escort aircraft flying near the Baltic states’ borderline in the NATO Baltic Air Policing Reaction Zone twice, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
With the flow of illegal goods from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad declining, the Lithuanian Customs this year plan to focus more on the border with Belarus. […]
The situation in Lithuania has radically changed with the launch the Klaipėda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and negotiations with Russia’s gas giant Gazprom on a new gas supply contract are no longer as important for the country as they were in the past, Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis says. […]
Between 9 February and 16 February, NATO air policing fighter aircraft patrolling the Baltic airspace were scrambled four times to intercept aircraft flying along the route between Mainland Russia and the Kaliningrad Oblast in international airspace near the borders of the Baltic states, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
NATO fighter-jets deployed in Lithuania on the NATO Baltic air policing mission were scrambled twice last week to intercept aircraft that had entered the policed area, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Lithuania is keeping a close eye on the ongoing major military exercises in the Russian region of Kaliningrad but has no reason for concern, Lithuanian minister of national defence says. […]
The news agency Bloomberg has included the Baltic states in the list of places in the world where geopolitical tensions could run high next year. […]
On 8-14 December, NATO air policing fighters protecting Baltic airspace took off 21 times to intercept Russian aircraft flying at the Baltic states’ borders, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė has refrained from comments on President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s strong-worded statements on Russia, noting that the European Union (EU) should speak in one voice on the matter. […]
Moscow’s border restrictions for Lithuanian-registered cars and trucks are a short-lived measure, since a long-term blockade would backfire on Russia, according to Nerijus Mačiulis, the chief economist at Swedbank Lithuania. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on 15 October that she would push to limit Russian television broadcasts inside the country. The statement came only two days after Defence Minister Maj. Gen. Jonas Vytautas Žukas announced plans to form a new rapid reaction force in Lithuania. […]
Lithuania, often nicknamed the Land of Amber, might launch industrial mining of amber for the first time in the last decade due to disrupted amber import from the Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia). […]
The Lithuanian Geological Survey is about to announce a tender for detailed amber exploration in the country, the country’s Ministry of Environment said on Tuesday. […]
The Lithuanian epic poem Seasons (Metai) is a canonic masterpiece of early Lithuanian literature written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775 in the Prussian village of Tolminkiemis. In Metai, rebellious Donelaitis depicted indigenous Lithuanian serfs subjected to mistreatment at the hands of German colonizers. […]
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