While there are some close ties between leaders of several Lithuanian trade unions and their Russian colleagues, they constitute no threat to national security, says MP Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee. […]
Fringe online media outlets in Lithuania, often embracing ideas that match those of the state-controlled Russian media, have long been cooperating and sharing information among themselves. Experts say that now they are mobilizing behind politicians who are trying to win power. […]
A State prosecutor filed an appeal against the acquittal of presidential spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė on charges of leaking a state secret, stressing at the Supreme Court on Wednesday that President Dalia Grybauskaitė should also be interviewed in the case. […]
Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he has been informed about how many employees in the Public Security Service were suspected of disloyalty to Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday, saying the country will continue to provide opportunities for ethnic minority communities to receive education in their native languages. […]
A week after Gediminas Grina, the former chief of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) compared the country’s ethnic minority schools to “education ghettos” and called for their removal, Klaipeda’s Russian school teachers are still upset about his comments. […]
The State Security Department has showed to the Parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee the schemes by which money for propaganda comes from Moscow to Lithuania. […]
The State Security Department (VSD) of Lithuania, which is in charge of monitoring and dealing with national security threats, presented a report this week, outlining methods used by Russia to fund pro-Kremlin and anti-Western propaganda in Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian Government decided on Wednesday that representatives of associated business organisations may from now on become members of the Inter-agency Commission for Coordination of Fight against Corruption. […]
After hearing a report from the State Security Department (VSD) about how Russia disseminates propaganda in Lithuania, MP Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, says that illegal methods are used to fund media outlets and recruit journalists. […]
A recent propaganda video, said to be produced by Islamic State (IS), names 60 countries as enemies of the terrorist organization. The flags of Lithuania and Estonia, too, briefly flash in the video, making it the first time that the Baltic states have been mentioned as targets of Islamic State terrorists. […]
After the second reading, the Lithuanian Seimas (parliament) backed next year’s draft state budget which was revised by the Government. The revisions include reduced structural deficit and additional appropriations for education and internal security institutions. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has instructed the head of the State Security Department (VSD) together with Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis to carry out a comprehensive inquiry into the Public Security Service (VST) under the Ministry of the Interior following an article in the media. […]
There is no need to announce a higher level of terrorism threat in Lithuania, because the State Security Department (VSD) is working to monitor the situation in the country and cooperating with foreign partners, the head of the State Security Department, Darius Jauniškis, told the LRT programme Savaitė. […]
A pre-trial investigation into the actions of police officers and handling of service weapons was launched after Thursday’s incident when a fugitive fled from a police vehicle with an officer’s automatic rifle. The investigation has been transferred to Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office. […]
After a major search operation of a fugitive who on Thursday escaped from a police vehicle stealing officer’s assault rifle and his ultimate arrest on the same day, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has called on the police to improve police officers’ training. […]
The Lithuanian State Security Department says that there are no Lithuanian citizens fighting on the side of the Islamic State in Syria. However, several dozen Polish and Latvian Islamic State supporters have gone to Syria. […]
Reacting to the terrorist attacks in France, Lithuania’s Parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee has requested additional funding for the State Security Department, the Lithuanian Police Anti-Terrorist Operations Unit, Aras, and the State Border Guard Service. The committee requests to designate 14.4 million euro to these institutions in next year’s budget. […]
The Liberal Movement political group in the Lithuanian parliament has proposed to boost funding for counter-terrorism effort by additional EUR 15 million starting in 2016. […]
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