The leader of a Donetsk separatist military group, Eastern Front, Eduard Akopov is married to a Lithuanian and had a permanent residence permit in Lithuania, according to the State Security Department (VSD). […]
The United States will increase its military presence in Eastern Europe by deploying an additional armoured brigade in the area to deter Russian aggression. […]
Russian energy company Gazprom tried to undermine Lithuania’s liquefied natural gas terminal (LNG) at Klaipeda and attempted to put pressure on some of Lithuania’s major gas consumers, the State Security Department (VSD) claimed in a threat to national security assessment released on Wednesday. […]
Russia and Belarus are likely to target infiltrating Lithuania’s Armed Forces via new recruits and conscripts, according to the Lithuanian Security Institutions’ annual report on Wednesday. […]
Counter-terrorism efforts and the migration crisis will reduce the international community’s attention on the security situation in Eastern Europe and will have a negative effect upon Lithuania, according to Lithuanian intelligence assessments. […]
Real estate mogul Donald Trump, the potential nominee of the Republican Party in the United States‘ presidential election, has said that NATO might have outlived its usefulness. […]
Lithuania‘s status as a key transit country for re-exporting goods from West to East has started to wane significantly, with re-exports down by 10% in 2015 alone. […]
Attacks in Brussels last week were not an assault against NATO, US Ambassador to the North Atlantic Council Douglas Lute tells LRT television. He visited Lithuania last week as part of a NATO delegation ahead of the summit in Warsaw this summer where Lithuania and other eastern Alliance members are seeking greater NATO presence in their territories. […]
With great fanfare and “surprise” Russia once again seemingly out-maneuvered Western leadership in Syria. While much ink has been spilled debating whether President Vladimir Putin is executing a sound strategy—or is merely a tactical opportunist—it is clear that he has achieved his primary strategic goal: making Russia geopolitically relevant again and forcing the West to begrudgingly accept that it must take into account Russian interests. But there is an ulterior motive to Putin’s partial withdrawal. […]
The tragic FlyDubai crash in Rostov-on-Don in Russia last Saturday that killed all 62 people on board may have been caused by a sudden gust of wind but the main factor may have been the company’s policy to punish pilots for diverting, said Kęstutis Zagreckas, a freelance pilot and flight instructor. […]
The US will send more troops to Lithuania as it starts it preparations to step up its presence and capabilities in Europe, said United States Army Europe Commander Lieutenant General Ben Hodges. […]
Russian television has thrived for months on a diet of victories in Syria. Now that the time has come to spin the news of a withdrawal, the argument is being deployed that it is best to avoid a second Afghanistan. Better still, the exit is being presented as another case of Russia outsmarting the United States. […]
Unfriendly neighbouring countries are the biggest current threat to Lithuania, said Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee on Žinių Radijas. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) ambassador to Moscow, Lithuanian diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas, has said he expects the Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who has been sentenced to 22 years in prison by a Russian court, to be soon released to Ukraine. […]
Russia‘s intensifying military activities have forced NATO to respond in kind, with the Alliance saying it will conduct more military exercises in Europe, and the United States promising to deploy far more equipment and forces in Europe. In 2017, Washington is setting aside $3.4 billion for Europe’s defence, but this might turn out to be just the tip of the iceberg. […]
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has been sentenced to 22 years in jail by a Russian court which found her guilty of of charges relating to the deaths of two Russian journalists. […]
The trial of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko in Russia is “nothing but farce”, says the Lithuanian president’s advisor. […]
Gitanas Nausėda, Žygimantas Mauricas and Nerijus Mačiulis, all economists at leading commercial banks in Lithuania, are optimistic about Lithuania’s economy in the coming year but they highlighted some of the greatest economic risks Lithuania faces in the coming year – most of them international rather than domestic. […]
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