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Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Lithuania has lost a strong supporter with the passing of US Senator John McCain, adding that this loss can only be filled up by close cooperation between the two countries.

The Lithuanian food production group Vičiūnų Grupė (Vičiūnai Group), owned by Visvaldas Matijošaitis, mayor of Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas, as well as other shareholders, says it cannot control sellers of its products in Crimea Peninsula, occupied by Russia.

When buying Russian gas and implementing joint energy projects with Russia, Europe funds its armament, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko told an international conference in Vilnius on Wednesday.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has called on the West to respond to historic lessons and maintain political unity in fighting rising threats posed by Russia.

Transatlantic ties are irreplaceable, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says amid the recent tension between the European Union and the United States.

Around 50 people on Wednesday marked the 10th anniversary of the Russian-Georgian war at the Russian Embassy in Vilnius.

Неофициальная "группа друзей Грузии" в ОБСЕ опубликовала заявление к "10-летию российского военного вторжения в Грузию".

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Tuesday called for remembering the lessons of Moscow's aggression as Georgia marks the 10th anniversary of its war with Russia.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Thursday called on the Migration Department to apply sanctions on people complicit in human rights violations in the occupied territories of Georgia.

United States President Donald Trump is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday. BNS Lithuania has asked three analysts whether this meeting poses any threat to Lithuania.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that on Wednesday she wished US President Donald Trump to be more unpredictable in next week's meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, than in talks with America's allies.

The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution, reminding of the occupation of Georgia's regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Russia ten years ago.

Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis is leaving for a three-day visit to the United States.

Lithuania President Grybauskaitė, leaving for Tartu on Friday, plans to congratulate Estonia on its centenary in Estonian.