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The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has forwarded a diplomatic note to the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the note, Lithuania urged Belarus to follow international requirements and standards and to immediately address the environmental, nuclear and radiation safety issues at the B...

Fires which broke out in the restricted zone around Chernobyl, north Ukraine, last weekend have not raised radiation levels in Lithuania. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is planning to raise the issue of Belarus' Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., this week.

The European Union along with Lithuania has recently softened its tone towards Belarus - often called the "last dictatorship of Europe" – and that shift in strategy has real implications for Lithuania’s approach to the construction of the country’s new nuclear power plant.

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Mr Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary, from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. We asked Mr Countryman to about the purpose of his visit to Lithuania.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia will add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal in 2015.

During his visit of Klaipėda Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal on Friday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius told the media that discussions with Estonia over Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (VAE) project have been renewed.

Lithuania in the future will be able to choose between "green" energy from the European Union and nuclear energy from Russia, an economist at Nordea bank said on Wednesday.

Once Japan restarts its nuclear capabilities, it will reduce its reliance on LNG. As a result, global LNG prices should drop, benefiting European states that are eyeing LNG as an alternative to Russian gas. This is particularly crucial for such Eastern European states as Lithuania and Poland that ha...

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who paid a working visit to Lithuania, said the nuclear programme of Iran was a threat to the whole world and compared the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East to a horror film.