Nikolai Filipchenko Archives - the Lithuania Tribune

First spy exchange in Lithuania: how did it happen?

December 30, 2019 Mačys Laurinkus 0

Several decades ago, hostile parties would meet on a Havel river bridge in Germany and exchange captive intelligence operatives. This helped maintain a balance during the Cold War between clashing states and regain spies, who […]

Lithuania: Russian FSB spying convict files appeal against the verdict

August 3, 2017 BNS EN 0

Russian citizen Nikolai Filipchenko sentenced in Vilnius in early July on charges of spying has filed an appeal against the verdict. […]

Court sentences Russian to 10 years in prison for spying

July 10, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Vilnius Regional Court on Friday sentenced Nikolai Filipchenko, a Russian citizen, to ten years in prison for spying. […]

Lithuanian court to pronounce verdict for Russian FSB spying suspect

July 7, 2017 BNS EN 0

A Vilnius court will Friday pronounce a verdict for Russian citizen Nikolai Filipchenko charged with spying. […]

Experts who monitor migrants’ behaviour believe that Lithuania is taking advantage of a temporary delay in the puzzle

August 18, 2022 0

With only a few kilometres of physical barrier left to be built on the border with Belarus, the crisis of irregular migrants caused by the country’s dictator last year is still far from being contained, […]

The lonely people of Belarus on the margins of the EU-Lithuania political agenda

August 18, 2022 0

Two years after the fraudulent Belarusian presidential elections, the Belarusian constitution was changed on the initiative of Alexander Lukashenko, journalists and students have been sent behind bars for criticising Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and there […]