Russia

President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda believes that the European Union should have clearer policies concerning Russia, which had started the war against Ukraine. According to the head of state, this will be possible only when the West takes a principled stance on its economic ties with the aggresso...

A member of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) is suspected of having spied for Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, prosecutors have found.

Acting Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, while on a working visit to the United States of America, testified at the US Helsinki Commission Congressional Hearing on 5 December, in Washington, D., convened to examine the role of Belarus in Russia’s crimes, the ministry has said in a press relea...

The Internal Security Bureau (IDB) has urged the Prosecutor’s Office to initiate criminal proceedings against an official of the Office for Citizenship and Migration Affairs (PMLP) for forgery, the IDB informed LETA.

The Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian prime ministers on Friday agreed to compile a common regional list of controlled battlefield relevant items subject to export restrictions to Russia and Belarus.

On Tuesday it was reported that two citizens of Spain intended to carry out a terrorist act in Lithuania in September. President’s chief adviser on national security Kęstutis Budrys assesses the incident as a provocation against Lithuania. The incident is linked to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukrai...

A battalion of the Lithuanian military’s Special Operations Forces bought six safes from a Russian-owned firm to store its classified documents two days before Russia invaded Ukraine, investigative journalist centre Siena reported on Thursday.

The Riga City Court today found taxi driver Sergejs Sidorovs guilty of spying for Russia and sentenced him to seven years in jail and two years’ probation supervision, the LETA learnt from the court.

Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys says the Baltic power grids’ decoupling from the Russian BRELL system, before synchronising with Western electricity networks on 9 February next year, can be likened to the last Russian tanks leaving Lithuania.

A Russian military intelligence unit operating in Kaliningrad has been linked to a sabotage campaign carried out in the Baltic region earlier this year, the LRT national broadcaster’s news website said Wednesday, citing an international investigation.

Latvian basketball player Janis Timma is preparing to participate in a tournament organized by Russian betting company Liga Stavok, the organizers of the tournament inform.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė does not think that Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres should have travelled to Russia, where he met with President Vladimir Putin.

Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen believes that the visit to Russia by Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) Antonio Guterres discredits the organisation. The Liberal Movement’s leader regrets that institutions, which have to safeguard Western values, fail to pass t...

Two Lithuanians were stripped of citizenship for fighting on the Russian side against Ukraine.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis on Friday met with ambassadors of the European Union member states accredited to Lithuania and urged their countries to reach an agreement on the 15th package of sanctions on Russia.

I first met Linas Linkevičius, then Lithuania’s ambassador to NATO in the late 2000s, in Brussels. Knowing my Estonian background, he joked that Estonians were committed to fighting for the Baltic nations’ freedom until the last Lithuanian fell. Behind the former Foreign Minister’s humour lies a poi...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it has detained two Ukrainian military intelligence officers in Kaliningrad Oblast as they attempted to cross from Lithuania to Russia. The National Crisis Management Centre of Lithuania (NKVC) believes these claims to be a provocation.

There are many things within the defence system and the National Armed Forces (NBS), beyond communication, that need to be changed and will have to be changed, President Edgars Rinkevics told TV3 this morning, commenting on the findings after the downing of a Russian drone on Latvian territory.

The Seimas has passed a motion to denounce three international economic agreements with Russia and Belarus.

Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė says the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) intention to restart economic consultations with Russia sends a ’very bad signal’ to the international community.