Russian citizens

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis argues that the State Security Department (VSD) has been given a disproportionate assignment to screen every Belarusian citizen who enters Lithuania.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė believes that discussions are needed before deciding whether identical sanctions should apply on Belarusian and Russian citizens. According to her, potential political and economic ramifications should be considered.

Latvia’s new Foreign Minister Krišjānis Kariņš says Russians who are not Latvian citizens could still live in the country if they learn basic Latvian.

Russian citizens who applied but failed to pass the official Latvian language examination or did not take it for justified reasons may obtain a residence permit for a term of up to two years, according to the amendments to the Immigration Law adopted by the Saeima in the second and final reading on ...

Latvia’s parliamentary commission has decided not to lower the age limit for Russian citizens who have to pass the Latvian language exam in order to keep their residence permit, delfi.lv reports.

Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says no political group in the Seimas favours the president’s proposal to tighten restrictions for Belarusian nationals, making them equal to the ones imposed on Russian citizens.

A man who kidnapped his daughter and fled to the Kaliningrad region on Sunday is allegedly a citizen of Russia, says the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC).

The number of Russian and Belarusian citizens seeking international protection in Estonia has soared since the start of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine last February, according to the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA). The number of Ukrainians who have applied for asylum ...

Representatives of the international centre for civil initiatives Our House (Nash Dom), Belarus & Lithuania urge to distinguish Belarusians citizens fleeing from the Lukashenko regime from Russians and not to impose identical restrictions on them.

More than a thousand Belarusian and Russian citizens have been recognised as posing a threat to Lithuania’s national security and have been banned from entering the country since the end-autumn last year, the Migration Department said.

Lithuanian army analysts have noted a growing flow of disinformation, with Lithuania's proposal to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens and decisions EU defense ministers being one of the main topics of such reports, the Lithuanian army said on Monday.

With European Union’s (EU) eastern member states working out a regional-level decision to bar entry for Russian tourists, Lithuania is taking action to restrict entry of Russian citizens into the country.

President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda on Monday met with Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel. The meeting focused on bilateral relations, NATO cooperation and Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Russian nationals have crossed the Lithuanian border 130,000 times since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in late February, Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said on Thursday.

The Baltic countries and Poland will seek separate solutions to significantly limit the flow of Russian tourists after the European Union decided on Wednesday to suspend a deal that made it easier for Russian nationals to get visas, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said.

Lawyers representing Algirdas Paleckis, a former Lithuanian politician who was found guilty of and sentenced to six years in prison for spying for Russia in late July, have appealed the court ruling with the Court of Appeal.

The recent forced landing of a plane, en route from Athens to Vilnius, in Minsk is an impertinent attack that posed threat to people's lives and violated the norms of international law, Lithuania's State Security Department says.

Lithuanian conservatives have suggested imposing national sanctions against 39 members of the Belarussian regime, including President Alexander Lukashenko, his sons Viktor and Dmitry, Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko, election officials and the heads of security agencies.

The Lithuanian government will consider blacklisting Belarusian officials for their role in the crackdown on the opposition and the media, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said on Friday.

A pre-trial investigation against Algirdas Paleckis, a Lithuanian politician suspected of spying for Russia, has been completed, Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said on Tuesday.