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Central and Eastern European politicians have urged United States President-Elect Donald Trump to stop making concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he could view the steps as weaknesses and undertake provocations against the Baltic states and Poland.

The former “Peasant” shadow cabinet can turn into smoke. Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis cheerfully noted to LRT.lt that “shadows dissipate eventually”. So who is going to lay claim to minister posts?

The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union, or LŽVS, said on Wednesday that Saulius Skvernelis, a former interior minister, will be the prime minister if the party wins the upcoming general elections.

Lithuania’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Petras Vaitiekūnas, has received the Community of Democracies’ Mark Palmer Prize, which is awarded to diplomats for their merits in advancing democracy and peace in the world, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Lithuania's former foreign minister, diplomat Petras Vaitiekūnas, will serve as adviser to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on voluntary basis.

Ambassadors do not pop up out of the blue and, for Marius Janukonis, Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Ukraine, the journey has been, he says, “a natural course of the diplomatic career”. But landing a diplomatic post in a country like Ukraine is obviously “a big challenge”, he agrees.

After Lithuania and Ukraine attempted to open an exhibition on annexation of Crimea at the headquarters of the Organization For Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a "war of exhibitions" may break out in the palace in Vienna, says the organization's secretary general.

The Lithuanian parliament has awarded the country's allies in the United States, local representatives and officials for their contribution to Lithuania's independence and statehood.

Director of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry's Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Department, Marius Janukonis, will be appointed as Lithuania's new ambassador to Ukraine.

Foreign countries must help Ukraine stop Russia and not allow the ongoing conflict to expand, former Lithuanian Ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas said after being awarded a medal for merits to the Lithuanian diplomatic service on Monday.

Diplomat Marius Janukonis is set to be appointed Lithuania's ambassador to Ukraine, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports citing sources.

Soon the time will come when Russia will issue an official apology for Soviet occupation from the stand of the Lithuanian Seimas, according to Petras Vaitiekūnas, Lithuania's former ambassador to Ukraine and one-time foreign minister. He said this at a solemn parliamentary sitting on Tuesday to mark...

Petras Vaitiekūnas, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania to Ukraine, has decided to quit the diplomatic service after returning to Vilnius once his term of office ends. Vaitiekūnas', 61, diplomatic career spanned over two decades, vz.lt reports. He served as Lithuania's minister...

Lithuania's national radio LRT gave the Person of the Year title to Lithuania's ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas. He was awarded for his "diplomatic courage".

A group of Ukrainian school students will spend the upcoming autumn holidays in Lithuania.

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.

Lithuanian Honorary Consul in the Ukrainian region of Luhansk Mykola Zelenec was kidnapped and found dead after 12 days, Lithuanian Ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas told BNS on Friday.

The disaster of Malaysia Airlines jetliner is the consequence of Russia’s undeclared war on Ukraine, and “the plane that has been shot down is full responsibility of Russia,” says Lithuanian Ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas.