Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), expects the Seimas to hold hearings in the fall on whether the country’s key energy projects are in line with its national security interests. […]
The Lithuanian Liberal Movement will continue efforts to prove that information in a State Security Department (VSD) report about MG Baltic‘s influence on it is untrue after the party and the intelligence agency failed to reach an amicable agreement during a preliminary court hearing on Monday. […]
Vilnius will repeatedly ask Moscow to allow Yevgeny Mataitis, a dual Lithuanian-Russian citizen convicted of spying in Russia, to serve his sentence in Lithuania. […]
Arcus Novus, the developer of a data center project near Vilnius, and its majority shareholder, Denmark’s SatGate Holding, pose a threat to national security as they are linked to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) through their direct and indirect shareholders, a court has ruled. […]
Minister of Transport and Communications Rokas Masiulis says that the recently surfacing corruption in the sector he curates are a natural matter. “There are areas that were touched and those that weren’t. The transport and […]
“We’ve invested in canned food instead of nuclear power” – that’s how the funds NDX Energija received after the LEO LT 2009 liquidation are described in the VP White Book. At that time NDX Energija […]
If general elections were held in Lithuania now, the opposition Liberal Movement would fail to cross the minimum barrier stipulated by the law, a new survey shows. […]
LiTak-Tak, a Lithuanian producer of air traffic control systems and radars, has failed to get an exports license due to information provided by the country’s State Security Department (VSD). […]
The amendments on the publication of the names of former KGB agents in Lithuania, who have voluntarily admitted their past collaboration, will be corrected, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says following criticism by the State Security Department. […]
Making public the names of people who have confessed about their past collaboration with the KGB would pose a serious threat to Lithuania’s security and open the way for Russian blackmail, the State Security Department warned on Thursday. […]
It has been long since Lithuania received so much global media attention. We were heard of, but it was inglorious. We were made famous by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that a […]
A dispute has on Thursday erupted in the Lithuanian parliament over a proposal to publish information on people who admitted to have collaborated with the KGB, with the parliamentary opposition warning of the Kremlin’s interest. […]
The solemn speech of the president on loyalty and attachment to the whole media is hypocrisy because in fact she enjoys praise and lack of criticism, political analyst Vytautas Bruveris tells LRT Radio. According to […]
Raimondas Šukys, a minister in several former Lithuanian governments, has taken the State Security Department, or VSD, to court over the intelligence agency’s claim that people from MG Baltic, one of the country’s largest business groups, exerted influence on him. […]
In anticipation of Tuesday’s annual address by President Dalia Grybauskaitė, the last of her presidency, public relations experts are musing, what the head of state should say, wanting to settle matters in political life, which […]
World media rarely pays particular attention to Lithuania. Last week was an exception, but it was neither a reason to celebrate, nor to be proud. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that secret […]
1. Democracies, both new and old, have been facing numerous challenges in the 21st century. Growing populist and authoritarian tendencies, on the one hand, and the abundance of oligarchical symptoms in young democracies, on the […]
MG Baltic group VP Raimondas Kurlianskis boasted to a number of high state officials that he maintains close connections with not only the Liberals, but also the Conservatives. From secret data gathered by officers it […]
Media owners in Lithuania should be subjected to the same requirements as investors in the country’s strategic companies, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday. […]
Lithuanian prosecutors refused on Monday to open a pre-trial investigation regarding the disclose of a document from the State Security Department (VSD) in the media. […]
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