Sanctions

Social Democratic prime minister-designate Gintautas Paluckas vows that the new Government will not change Lithuania’s sanction policies towards Belarus. The politician admitted to have "discussed the situation" with a lawyer representing Birių krovinių terminalas (BKT), a bulk cargo terminal that h...

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.

The EU, US, UK, and multiple other countries have already announced sanctions on individuals that have contributed to the Russian aggression in Ukraine over the past two years. Over 2,200 individuals have already been sanctioned by the EU. I would argue that the number of individuals who should be s...

Two companies registered in Lithuania have fined for breaching international sanctions.

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says there is a constant effort put in agreeing additional measures to sanction Belarus.

These days mark two and a half years since the start of Kremlin’s aggression against Ukraine – and almost the same time has passed since the introduction of restrictive measures against Russia that had soon turned it into the world’s most san­ctioned nation.

In August, the Customs Department announced that an unnamed Lithuanian company was fined EUR 13.6 million for violating sanctions and exporting 60 lorries to Russia, investigative journalist centre Siena reported.

A Lithuania-registered firm exporting vehicles has been fined by EUR 13.6 million for flouting international sanctions, the customs authority said Wednesday. Six semi-trailers were also seized from the company.

Allegations have been made against four individuals in a pre-trial investigation into suspected circumvention of sanctions by the company Plungės kooperatinė prekyba, part of Vičiūnai Group, public broadcaster lrt.lt has reported.

Lithuanian companies have exported dual-use goods worth at least EUR 130 million to Russia from March 2022 to August 2023 by circumventing sanctions, the public broadcaster’s LRT Investigation Team reported on Tuesday.

Heating equipment supplier Vilpra, owned by the family of presidential candidate Ignas Vėgėlė, might have circumvented EU sanctions imposed on Russia and Belarus by supplying goods through Kyrgyzstan, shows a report by journalistic investigation centre Siena, Laisvės TV and Belarusian investigative ...

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says the West must immediately tighten sanctions against Tehran after the weekend’s attack on Israel by Iran.

A pre-trial investigation has been opened into violation of international sanctions amid reports that a Vičiūnai Group company allegedly transported sanctioned goods and battlefield items to Russia.

Public broadcaster LRT has reported that Plungės kooperatinė prekyba, a company of Vičiūnai Group, more than ten times transported sanctioned goods from Lithuania to Vičiūnai-Rus factory in Sovetsk, Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast.

Following media reports that a company of Vičiūnai Group exported sanctioned goods to Russia, the Customs Department will launch an investigation.

President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda calls to ban Russian grain import to the European Union and to include Russia’s atomic energy corporation Rosatom, more banks and Russian aluminium in the EU’s 14th package of sanctions on Moscow.

On Monday, 11 March, when the ban on cars with Russian number plates took effect in Lithuania and the entire European Union, Lithuanian Customs officers stopped the first car with Russian number plates at Medininkai border checkpoint.

Some companies operating in Lithuania, clearly aware that they are helping Moscow to evade sanctions, are organising the export of equipment, technology and other products to Russia. Part of them engage in the schemes on their own initiative, the latest national threat assessment by intelligence age...

The European Union on Friday adopted the 13th package of individual and economic sanctions against Russia, Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry reports.

The Seimas of Lithuania will convene for an extraordinary session on 12-15 February following a written proposal of 50 legislators.