Kaliningrad is the smallest part of the Russian Federation, spanning over 4-times smaller Lithuanian territory, with over a little less than a million residents. Despite the specifics of the region, Kaliningrad does not have an exclusive status, according to the Russian Constitution. […]
After the parliamentary elections Lithuania and Poland may take a fresh look on the bilateral ties, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said at a Brussels meeting with his Polish counterpart, Witold Waszczykowski. […]
Lithuania’s new government pledges in its program to strengthen relations with neighboring Poland and cooperation with the United States and declares support for the Eastern Partnership countries of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. […]
Lithuanian diplomats met with members of the United States‘ future administration in Washington D.C., emphasizing Lithuania’s efforts to step up defense capacities in the past few years. […]
Analysts in Lithuania are alarmed that Francois Fillon, the favorite in the French presidential elections, may constitute a threat to the Baltic states due to his friendly attitude towards Russia. […]
As Lithuania marks the Day of Armed Forces on Wednesday, the country’s leaders and top military officers noted the enhanced national and NATO defense capacities amid the continuing dismay over Russia. […]
The deployment by Russia of new missiles in its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad is aimed at restricting access for NATO allies’ ships to the Baltic countries, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said. […]
If you type the word “hybrid” into the Google search machine, you will get a rather likely result – the term “hybrid car”. Only later Google will include such terms, as “hybrid warfare” and “hybrid threats”. In general, hybrid means a thing made by combining two or many different elements, mixed. So much about the terms. […]
NATO air-policing jets were last week scrambled from Lithuania twice to identify and intercept Russian warplanes flying above the Baltic Sea. […]
Should Lithuanian politicians decide to introduce general conscription, preparations would take at least four years and require more funding, experts say. […]
On Friday the BBC published a text on the fate of the Baltic States with Donald Trump taking power in the United States. The publication points out that Lithuania is afraid of potential Russian aggression […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) and the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) coalition’s “Harmonious Lithuanian Cabinet” programme project only dedicated its very last comments to foreign and defence policy – 10 pages of 117. While the new government does not propose any earthshattering changes, some new accents raise eyebrows. […]
Lithuania’s parliament restated its plans to meet the commitment to NATO in terms of raising defence funding and reasserted the importance of strategic partnership with the United States. […]
Saulius Skvernelis, the candidate to become Lithuania’s next prime minister, on Thursday named creating a family-friendly environment, speeding up adoption procedures, combating violence, achieving high living standards in regions and introducing universal military conscription as his priorities. […]
Saulius Skvernelis, the candidate to become Lithuania’s next prime minister, sees Poland as a strategic partner and vows to make every effort “to reload” relations with the neighboring nation, which are currently not in their best shape. […]
About 4,000 Lithuanian and Allied troops will attend Iron Sword 2016 exercise held in Lithuania in late November through early December, the Defence Ministry said. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said she expected Bulgaria‘s President-Elect Rumen Radev to actively cooperate on the bilateral level and within the European Union and NATO. […]
The leader of the newly elected government Ramūnas Karbauskis is cautious in discussions of a defence spending in excess of 2% of the GDP. “Our programme includes a section where defence spending has to be […]
Donald Trump‘s victory in the US presidential elections left the world shocked. Few believed it and most were disappointed. British and other European media describes this as the greatest mistake of the American electorate in history because the real estate magnate is seen as a liar, bully, populist and has gone bankrupt a number of times. What can we expect after Trump‘s victory? LRT spoke with former Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, first post-independence head of state and one of the leaders of the independence movement Prof Vytautas Landsbergis, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius. […]
Lithuania has contacts with people in US President-elect Donald Trump‘s entourage, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Wednesday. […]
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