Migration Department
Society

Lithuania receives 25 Ukrainian asylum requests

Twenty-five Ukrainian nationals have asked for asylum in Lithuania over the first half of this year in the wake of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]

Valdas Adamkus and his wife Alma Adamkienė
Foreign affairs

Valdas Adamkus: The only person I had no luck with was Vladimir Putin

Former Lithuanian president Valdas Adamkus expresses his disappointment about the estranged relationship with Poland, and the demands of the Polish minority. He also shares insights and memories about his own personal relations with state leaders he worked with during his presidency, while appreciating a bold yet risky stance of Lithuania’s current leadership during the RussiaUkraine conflict. […]

Linas Linkevičius
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian specialist will help Ukraine implement reforms, foreign minister says

Ukraine will receive a Lithuanian specialist who will help the country implement economic and integration reforms. The specialist who will provide assistance to the reform group established within the Ukrainian president’s administration will be chosen and dispatched as soon as in September, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, who visited Kyiv last week and met with President Petro Poroshenko, told the radio Žinių Radijas. […]

Linas Linkevičius
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian foreign minister discussed support to Ukraine during visit in Kiev

Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, who met with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Kiev last Friday, discussed support to Ukraine and coordination of diplomatic efforts in the run-up to the summit meetings of the European Union, NATO and the United Nations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs. […]

Algirdas Butkevičius
Uncategorized

Lithuanian prime minister: H. Consul’s murder shows Ukraine is at war

The murder of Lithuania’s honorary consul in Luhansk has shown that what is happening in Ukraine is a war and that pro-Russian separatists are not choosing their victims, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Saturday. […]