Foreign affairs

Lithuania expresses condolences over killed Frenchman: brutality cannot break resolve to fight terrorism

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has expressed deepest condolences over the brutal murder of a French citizen by terrorists, emphasizing that such brutal crimes cannot undermine the determination to fight terrorism. […]

Donetsk, Ukraine
Society

Lithuanian prosecutors launch terrorism probe into calls to join separatists in Ukraine

The chief prosecutor of Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office cancelled the decision of a prosecutor from the Department for Criminal Prosecution not to initiate an investigation into incitement of terrorism. Conservative MP Arvydas Anušauskas had turned to prosecutors saying that calls on social media to go and support separatist fighters in east Ukraine might be construed as incitement of terrorism. […]