State Security Department

The State Security Department (VSD) has revoked the reliability status of Lithuanian passport manufacturer Garsų pasaulis. Afterwards, the Identity Documents Personalisation Centre (ADIC) under the Ministry of the Interior terminated the contract with the printing house.

Director of the State Security Department (VSD) Darius Jauniškis warns that the Belarusian regime is prepared to kidnap Lithuanian citizens, news website 15min.lt has reported.

The State Security Department (VSD) does not rule out the possibility of provocations in Lithuania ahead of 9 May, when Russian communities observe the victory over Nazi Germany.

Parliamentary ethics watchdogs concluded Tuesday that an ad hoc commission, which probed the case of the State Security Department’s (VSD) whistleblower and collection of information during the 2019 presidential campaign, had violated several laws and procedures. President Gitanas Nausėda claims tha...

The State Security Department (VSD) disputes the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into a VSD whistleblower’s case. An ad hoc commission of the Seimas examined how the VSD collected information during the 2019 presidential election campaign. The commission concluded that then presidential candidat...

Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) believes that Tuesday’s attack on Russian citizen Leonid Volkov, former chairman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), was likely organised and carried out by Russia. He was assaulted and beaten outside his home in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, suf...

The State Security Department (VSD) says 1,415 foreign nationals were found as posing a threat to Lithuania’s national security last year, after screening more than 120 thousand foreigners living in the country or visiting.

The Migration Department plans to screen 18,000-20,000 citizens of Belarus who had moved to Lithuania prior to 2022, when restrictions were imposed due to Russia’s war against Ukraine and the role of Belarus in it.

The Kremlin’s aim is to polarize the society and create distrust in the country’s institutions, the national defence minister said Thursday in comment on the recent activity of Russian special services in the region.

Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) reports that suspects have been detained in Estonia and Latvia who engaged in criminal activities on the instructions of Russia’s special services.

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.

Figure skater Margarita Drobiazko has appealed against President Gitanas Nausėda’s decision to take away her Lithuanian citizenship she was granted thirty years ago by exception.

The State Security Department (VSD) has stated that emails with bomb threats sent to Lithuania’s schools and kindergartens represent a coordinated and deliberate attack by hostile countries. The police stated that the number of emails with bomb threats in the Russian Language has reached 633.

Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says her ministry has already drafted amendments to the law on foreigners’ legal status to enable a mechanism for issuing a foreigner’s passport to opponents of Alexander Lukashenko’s regime only.

The National Alliance party has addressed authorities calling on the government to stop all measures aimed at facilitated workforce immigration to Lithuania.

Belarusian activist Olga Karach appealed against the Migration Department’s decision not to grant her asylum because of her links to Russian intelligence.

The Migration Department recently refused to grant political asylum to Belarusian activist Olga Karach, head of the international centre for civil initiatives Our House (Nash Dom) Belarus & Lithuania, after the State Security Department (VSD) concluded that she poses a threat to Lithuania’s national...

MP Agnė Širinskienė, chair of the parliamentary group of non-attached MPs, intends to appeal to prosecutors after Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas publicly revealed on Facebook that Lithuania would purchase German-made main battle tanks. Opposition lawmakers claim that the defence min...

The State Security Department (VSD) notes that arguments of “sovereign citizens” with authorities are becoming increasingly heated. One of the more prominent cases happened last week, when parents from the “sovereign citizen” movement took their children from a childcare home without permission and ...