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Political scientist Tomas Janeliūnas is convinced that Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis seeks to involve intelligence services into political fights by calling upon the State Security Department (VSD) over potential Kremlin influence on the Conservatives. Former heads of the VSD Gediminas Grina and...
The opposition Lithuanian Liberal Movement continues to search for arguments to refute information in a State Security Department (VSD) report that the party was controlled by MG Baltic, one of the country's largest business groups.
Lithuania's government does not rule out cooperation with the International Criminal Court on the US Central Intelligence Agency's alleged prison near Vilnius, however, sticks to its version that Antaviliai accommodated an intelligence support center rather than a secret interrogation center.
The Lithuanian parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee, appointed to analyze the national security threats posed by MP Mindaugas Bastys' links, wants to interview incumbent and former chiefs of the State Security Department.
Lithuanian MEPs Laima Andrikienė and Algirdas Saudargas, both members of the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, were included in a list of EU politicians banned from entering Russia, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius confirmed to BNS on Monday.
Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the “black list” of European Union officials prepared by Russia is part of the propaganda war.
Outgoing director of the Lithuanian State Security Department, Gediminas Grina, says it was always sad for him to hear criticism about inactivity, regardless of the important investigations conducted by the institution under his leadership.
The threat of terrorism in Lithuania is low but the country should stay on alert, says Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee.
Lithuanian State Security Department chief Gediminas Grina told parliament on Tuesday he could not give any new answers about the US Central Intelligence Agency's secret prisons.
The Seimas of Lithuania decided on Tuesday to summon the head of the country's State Security Department, Gediminas Grina, over suspicions that a secret CIA prison, mentioned in the recently-published US Senate's report on detention and torture of suspected terrorists, could have operated in Lithuan...
Lithuania's ruling Order and Justice Party is summoning the State Security Department's chief Gediminas Grina before parliament to give an explanation about the US Central Intelligence Agency's “violet” detention site near Vilnius mentioned in the US Senate's report.
After identifying persons who spied for Belarus, Lithuania's special services attempted, unsuccessfully, to re-recruit them, says the State Security Department's Director General Gediminas Grina.
Schoolchildren who have returned from military camps in Russia are being monitored by security officers in Lithuania, Gediminas Grina, head of the State Security Department, said on Monday.
