national security

The Intelligence Ombudsman’s Office intends to look into how intelligence authorities collect and verify information related to the 2024 elections.

The Regional Administrative Court has ruled that Russian citizen Yury Borisov, backer of former president Rolandas Paksas, who was impeached and removed from office in 2004, poses a threat to Lithuania’s national security.

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...

Two Social Democrat MPs have criticized the ruling parties for paying little attention to shelters and other civil safety issues in their efforts to boost national defence.

President’s chief national security adviser Kęstutis Budrys expects a law on defence and security industry to be adopted in spring. It would ensure more effective cooperation between authorities and defence industry companies, as well as more flexible regulation of these companies.

Leader of the Farmers and Greens party (LVŽS) Ramūnas Karbauskis is critical of discussions on universal conscription, he thinks that Lithuania has been ill-prepared for it and that the issue is being taken advantage of before numerous elections in 2024.

Lithuanian MP Irina Rozova says an intelligence report based on which she was denied access to classified information contains nothing to indicate that she posed a threat to national security.

The Lithuanian government is preparing for a possible dispute with Belarus' pipeline construction company Beltruboprovodstroy which has filed a 10-million-euro claim after being removed from the bidding for a Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) contract due to national security concerns.

The chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas' Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) does not think that MP Irina Rozova's participation in an event of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) in Georgia in June may have compromised national security.

Social exclusion, emigration, a lack of confidence in one's country, corruption. These and other threats to national security were identified by presidential candidates during a debate held by the Lithuanian public television LRT and the Central Electoral Commission on Thursday.

Risks in connection to investments in the rapidly growing sector of financial technologies, also known as fintech, are under control, and the licensing requirements remain high, the central Bank of Lithuania said on Monday.

The Lithuanian Migration Department has decided to deny asylum to Alisher Toshev, a Tajik national who was last week detained at Vilnius Airport over national security concerns and remains in special accommodation premises for asylum-seekers at the airport's border control area.

Exceptionally few human decisions will lead to consequences measured in a dozen thousand or a hundred thousand years, which is the time to be needed for radioactive waste from the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant to decay before it reaches the level of naturally-occurring background radiation and will...

Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Social Democratic political group in the Seimas, says that he does not intend to step down as a lawmaker even if a parliamentary probe finds that his actions pose a threat to national security.

Lithuania's intelligence agencies have barred relocation of nine refugees under the European Union (EU) program after establishing that their presence in the country would jeopardize national security, the State Security Department said.

Russia aims to boost it influence upon the Tatar community in Lithuania and take advantage of the disputes on the rights of the Polish residents of Lithuania, intelligence institutions said in an annual report of national security threats published on Monday.

Lithuanian prosecutors have asked a court to annul capital increase deals of AmberCore DC and Arcus Novus, which are building the country's largest privately-owned data center close to Vilnius. Intelligence services say the project could have links with the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB).

Zapad 2017 military training to be held in Belarus and Russia this year will be the main challenge to Lithuania's national security, says Darius Jauniškis, director of the Lithuanian State Security Department.

The scope of national security threats is changing with the European Union and NATO becoming the main target, the head of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence said on Wednesday after a meeting at the State Security Department.

Processes proceeding far from Lithuania and right by its borders lead to the conclusion that challenges to national security have not disappeared. Today it is hard to predict how things will proceed thus national defence is one of the priorities of national security policy.