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Lithuania’s DefMin, Labor Exchange create database for retired soldiers

May 29, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defense and the Lithuanian Labor Exchange have created a special database, the Retired Soldiers’ Bank, to provide an opportunity for employers to hire retired troops. […]

Minister of defence set to raise soldier wages by almost 30 pct within 4 years

February 28, 2018 BNS 0

Salaries of troops serving in Lithuania’s military should go up by 30 percent within the next four years, officials of the Defence Ministry say, adding that new packages of social benefits have been drafted in an effort to motivate troops to stay in service. […]

Zapad 2013 Russian military 'lands' on the shores of Kaliningrad

Antanaitis: ‘The Russians will want to test us’

September 16, 2025 0

“First of all, these exercises are intended to demonstrate their power. The Russians are beginning to appear to the world and NATO as a weak link, a weak state. The Russians need to flex their […]

At the border – “Dragon Teeth,” above their heads – smuggling balloons: they told how Lithuania is preparing

September 8, 2025 0

With the joint Russian-Belarusian Zapad military exercises approaching, the Lithuanian army and border guards are preparing for all possible scenarios. It becomes clear when visiting towns in the Vilnius district near the border with Belarus, […]

The Russian language dilemma in Vilnius: which way forward?

August 25, 2025 0

Is there too much Russian spoken in Vilnius? Over the past year, many Vilnius residents have responded to this increasingly common question by saying that it is an indisputable fact, lrytas.lt writes in its editorial Laiko […]