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Foreign commercial vehicle drivers will have to self-isolate on arrival in Lithuania even if they come for a brief stay, according to a decree signed by Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga on Thursday.

Airlines will have to register information about all individuals traveling to and from Lithuania by air transport starting January and provide it to the law-enforcement.

Substantive disagreements remain between Lithuania and Belarus over the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction just 50 kilometers from Vilnius, the Lithuanian Environment Ministry said after the two countries' experts ended their two-day meeting in Minsk on Wednesday.

At a meeting with the European Union's (EU) Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas, Russia's new Human Rights Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova asked questions about Lithuanian supplies of military munitions to Ukraine.

The Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta, on a visit to Vilnius, says that Lithuania has made a big progress, but there are still many disadvantaged and vulnerable people in the country.

A group of school students from Donetsk, one of the most disturbed regions in Ukraine, is coming to Lithuania on Monday.

Lithuania have taken bronze at the U17 basketball world championships.

Lithuania is a small country in comparison to Russia. So why does the Kremlin pay Lithuania a disproportionate amount of its attention? One reason is that it needs weak enemies that it can divert its people’s attention to. There was a time when Russian polls indicated that they saw Lithuania as thei...

The UN Security Council on May 22 adopted a resolution, initiated by Lithuania, on curbing illegal trade in small arms.

Latvian President Andris Berzins does not agree with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė's repeated statement that Russia is a terrorist state.

Russia has called off tightened border checks of Lithuanian trucks, which were introduced about four months ago, president of the Lithuanian Association of Small and Medium-Sized Haulers, has said.

After the European Parliament has revoked legal immunity of founder of the Labour Party Viktor Uspaskich, another Member of the European Parliament, Antanas Guoga, has told his colleague to trust Lithuanian courts.

Lithuania has secured the backing of New Zealand and Australia for its accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, on an official visit to Australia, said.

Lithuania's ruling parties intend to shortly again submit a Constitutional amendment to the parliament to pave way for removed president Rolandas Paksas to run for parliament and president.

Lithuania’s Honorary Consul J. Prunskis met with US Senators John McCain and Mark Kirk, Consul General of Ukraine Andriy Pravednyk, Consul General of Lithuania Marijus Gudynas, and Ukranian leaders to discuss the current situation in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Eastern Europe.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the minimum monthly wage will be raised since 1 July 2015. Even though economic growth indicators of the first months of 2015 are not too encouraging, yet the prime minister says it is too early to tell how Lithuania will fare in collecting state budget ...

NATO air policing mission fighter jets, stationed in the Lithuanian northern city of Šiauliai, were on March 24 morning scrambled to accompany several Russian bombers and fighter jets flying over the Baltic Sea with their transponders switched off.

Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis has drawn up a draft report on EU-Russian relations, openly condemning Russia's aggression in Ukraine, calling on the EU to put pressure on Russia more actively to make it comply with international commitments, and also taking measures against Russian propaganda...

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday signed a legal amendment, which reintroduces conscription service in the country.

Last year, Lithuania attracted 29 foreign companies. In the next three years the country should have about 2,000 additional jobs thanks to these new investors. A recent report by the “Kapital” program, broadcast on Estonian national television, investigated what Lithuania has that Estonia doesn’t, I...