Defence
State Defence Council approves 2017 intelligence priorities
The Lithuanian State Defence Council on Monday approved the country’s intelligence needs and priorities for this year. […]
State Security Department
Defence
Building near Vilnius linked with CIA centre to be up for sale
The Lithuanian State Security Department is discarding the building in Antaviliai near Vilnius that was investigated as a suspected secret detention centre of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). […]
Defence
Lithuania updates security strategy
Lithuania’s updated National Security Strategy will highlight corruption and social exclusion as threats, the chairman of the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence said on January 9. […]
Defence
Lithuania blocks plans for data centre over links to Russia’s FSB
Lithuania’s authorities have taken steps to halt plans for building what would be the country’s largest data centre near Vilnius following an intelligence warning that it may be hooked up to a Russian spying centre. […]
Defence
Seimas’ speaker: MPs should be safe from impact of foreign states
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis says that MPs need training by the State Security Department to be able to resist threats from the outside and influence of foreign countries. […]
Uncategorized
Seimas speaker, security chief alarmed over TV3 sale
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis and State Security Department chief Darius Jauniškis on Tuesday discussed the possible plans of the Swedish media concern Modern Times Group (MTG) to sell its business in the Baltic states, including the TV3 television group. […]
Defence
Russia’s actions in Lithuania may be disguised as terrorism
Russia and Belarus may be acting in Lithuania under the disguise of terrorism, says Darius Jauniškis, director of the State Security Department. […]
Defence
President notes lack of govt input to cyber security
The government’s input in Lithuania’s cyber security is lacking, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after meeting with the new Cabinet on Wednesday. […]
Politics
PM says no signals of increased threat of terrorism in Lithuania
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Tuesday called on Lithuanians not to panic in the wake of Monday’s deadly truck attack in Berlin, saying that there are no signals of an increased threat of terrorism in the country. […]
CORPORATE
Why is Lithuania losing the hybrid war with Russia?
International relations experts keep repeating that Russia is already in a hybrid war with the West. At Kremlin‘s command, Russian special services tampered with US presidential elections, are attempting to do the same with the […]
Defence
State security agency to provide training for MPs
The Lithuanian State Security Department is planning to organize training for newly-elected members of the parliament. […]
Defence
No comment from Security Dept on US warning of Russian election interferrence
The Lithuanian State Security Department has refused to comment on the media reports about the US intelligence warning Lithuania about Russian attempts to tip election results. […]
Defence
State Security Department launches confidential hotline
The Lithuanian State Security Department announced on Thursday the launch of a confidential hotline and the start of a public awareness campaign. […]
Politics
Peasants stick to 3-party coalition idea, Conservatives oppose it
The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) sticks to the idea of forming a broad coalition of three parties after Tuesday’s consultations with the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, but the conservatives say they will not work together with the Social Democrats and want the Liberal Movement brought in. […]
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Will Conservatives ignore ‚Russian skeleton’ in Karbauskis’ wardrobe?
The Conservatives (TS-LKD) have taken a far more moderate stance today compared to when two years ago they released a party document titled “The Soft Russia‘s Containment Strategy” (Minkštoji Rusijos sulaikymo strategija“), among the contents […]
CORPORATE
Whistleblower speaks of flaws in Lithuanian LNG terminal’s security
The security of Lithuania’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has a number of issues, according to an anonymous officer working in the service that guards the facility in Klaipėda. According to the officer, there are a […]
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Former VSD head Laurinkus to run in elections with Green Party
Former head of the State Security Department (VSD) Mečys Laurinkus will participate in October’s parliamentary election together with the Lithuanian Green Party, led by Linas Balsys. Balsys, who is a member of the current parliament, […]
Defence
Terrorist threat level ‘unchanged’ in Lithuania
The likelihood of terrorist attacks in Lithuania remains unchanged, with no data available on planned attacks, says Darius Jauniškis, the director of the State Security Department. […]
Politics
Grybauskaitė vetoes bill easing restrictions on repeat residence permits for foreigners
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has vetoed a bill proposed by Social Democrat MP Algirdas Sysas and adopted by the Seimas (parliament) that suggest that certain requirements for third-country nationals would only apply for their first application for residence permits in Lithuania, and that the permit would later be extended almost automatically.
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