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  • Foreign affairs

Vietnamese delegation to discuss migration issues with Lithuanian border officials

Vietnamese diplomats and officials will discuss migration issues with Lithuanian border officials during their visit to Lithuania starting on Tuesday.…

6 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuania denies entry to 4 Pakistanis with Fan-IDs

Lithuanian border guards last night prevented four Pakistanis with World Cup Fan IDs from entering the country. [...]

6 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Football fans have smoothly travelled via Lithuania, minister says

Football fans have smoothly travelled from mainland Russia to its exclave of Kaliningrad via Lithuania, Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas said…

6 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Football fans travelled to Russia’s Kaliningrad via Lithuania without incidents

Around 1,600 football fans traveled by train to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad via Lithuania on Thursday night without any…

6 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Around 2,500 football fans cross Lithuanian border en route to Kaliningrad

Around 2,500 football fans crossed the Lithuanian border on Friday night, going on special trains to the Russian exclave of…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuania denies entry to 3 Ghanaian football fans without Schengen visas

Three Ghanaian nationals travelling by train from mainland Russia to the Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad for FIFA World Cup…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian, Russian officials begin to coordinate preparations for FIFA World Cup

Lithuanian and Russian officials are starting to coordinate efforts to manage increased migration flows to Kaliningrad, which will host some…

7 years ago
  • Sports

Number of transit trains via Lithuania to triple during soccer championship in Russia

Lithuanian and Russian officials have agreed to triple the number of passenger trains to the Russian Kaliningrad region when the…

7 years ago
  • Defence

Lithuanian border guards allowed to use firearms against unidentified drones

Lithuanian border guards have been allowed to use weapons and other measures against unidentified drones, the State Border Guard Service…

7 years ago
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  • Opinion

Skvernelis’ real team: increasingly more companions in important posts

There is nothing wrong to enlist the aid of tried and tested companions after taking a high post. Questions do…

7 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

On construction of fence on the border with Russia

The Minister of Interior spent the better portion of Mondays afternoon in Ramoniškėse, almost 200 kilometres from the state capital…

8 years ago
  • Defence

Govenrment plans to step up border protection

Lithuania plans to purchase new equipment to improve the protection of the state border, according to the plan of measures…

8 years ago
  • Politics

Chief of Lithuanian border unit detained

Prosecutors of the Kaunas county have detained Nerijus Ašmenskas, chief of the Aleksandras Barauskas checkpoint of the Varėna unit of…

8 years ago
  • Politics

Deputy police chief Požela appointed head of Lithuania’s border guard service

Deputy Commissioner General of Lithuania's police Renatas Požela is to be appointed head of the country's State Border Guard Service,…

10 years ago