Freetime

Women celebrate March 11 with weapons in hand

The event 101 Shots for Lithuania was held for March 11 in a forest firing range. The original celebration of the Restoration of Lithuanian Independence was held for the third year now and is becoming a tradition. Ever more female representatives from culture, business and entertainment are daring to try their hand at practical combat shooting. […]

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Society

Lithuania hosting weaponry exhibition Live Firing Show 2018

A three-day international weaponry exhibition starts in Lithuania on Wednesday, organized by the National Defense Foundation and the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union. […]

New conscripts
CORPORATE

Reinstating conscription in Lithuania: bringing society back into defence?

In 2015, with the security environment on NATO‘s eastern frontiers deteriorating as a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Lithuania made a rather sudden and dramatic decision to resume the mandatory military draft and thus […]

At the riflemen gathering
Defence

Koryzna proposed as commander of Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union

Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis proposes to appoint Lieutenant Colonel Gintaras Koryzna as commander of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union (LRU). […]

Minister of Defence Raimundas Karoblis at the DELFI TV conference
Defence

Minister of Defence on his plans for national defence infrastructure

Raimundas Karoblis’ name has so far not been well known in Lithuania. A career diplomat with over 20 years of experience, he himself was surprised by the proposal to become Minister of National Defence. He is inheriting a ministry with both an impressively rising budget and at the same time – the taint of corruption, but the former diplomat tells Delfi TV that in the end he decided to operate on the idea of “If need be, then so be it”. […]