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50 rare amber stones will be put up for bidding in Kaliningrad. The auction can be participated both by Russians and citizens of foreign countries.

Lithuanian customs officers detained a shipment of smuggled cigarettes worth almost 2 million euros in Kybartai on Thursday morning, the Customs Criminal Service said.

Latvian company Spectrum Baltic plans to import electricity to Lithuania from the Russian region of Kaliningrad. Lithuania's National Energy Regulatory Council confirmed it to BNS Lithuania on Thursday it had issued the company the necessary permit.

Eight EU member states, having an external EU land border, have backed Lithuania's initiative to seek more funding for border protection and the creation of a border surveillance standard during their meeting in Vilnius.

The call from Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis to resume contacts with Russia on the political level and operations of an intergovernmental commission have made top headlines over the past few days.

NATO fighter aircraft conducting the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states were scrambled once from Lithuania last week to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea.

A Lithuanian court has issued a one-month arrest warrant for a Russian citizen who claimed to be a Russian border guard after he was detained in an intoxicated condition after unlawfully crossing the Lithuanian border on Saturday.

NATO fighter-jets serving in the Baltic air-policing mission were last week scrambled once from Lithuania to intercept a Russian warplane flying above the Baltic Sea.

Lithuania's defense officials say they are keeping a close eye on the joint Russian-Chinese military exercise gaining momentum in the Baltic Sea.

NATO fighter-jets serving in the NATO air-policing mission were last week scrambled once to intercept Russian warplanes flying above the Baltic Sea, the Defense Ministry said.

At a meeting with Russia's envoy on Thursday, NATO ambassadors asked him questions about the scale and scenario of the large-scale Zapad 2017 military exercise scheduled to take place next to Lithuania this September, says Lithuania's Ambassador to the Alliance Vytautas Leškevičius.

The world clearly understands that key threats to transatlantic security in our region arise from the militarization of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the Zapad military exercise and Belarus' Astravyets nuclear power plant, which has become a geopolitical weapon, President Dalia Grybauskaitė sa...

Lithuania is Monday starting to build a protective fence on the border with the Russian Kaliningrad region.

Lithuanian border guards late on Thursday detained a Russian military team on a transit train traveling from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the capital of Moscow, a spokesman for the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service said.

Police officers who a week ago detained men with airsoft guns in a forest near Nemenčinė, in the district of Vilnius, responded appropriately to the situation, Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense, said on Wednesday.

Speaking at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on Friday, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius emphasized the importance of stepping up defense in the face of the challenges posed by Russia.

Around 1,500 NATO troops this summer will train to defend the so-called "Suwalki gap", a land corridor whose protection would be critical for defending the Baltic countries from Russia, the commander of the Lithuanian Land Force said.

NATO should move its military comomands closer to the Alliance's Eastern borders, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said Thursday after meeting with General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe.