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The Citizenship Commission convened on Friday and proposed that President Gitanas Nausėda would strip Russian businessman and former KGB employee Yury Kudimov of Lithuanian citizenship that was granted by exception.

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says Moscow’s latest accusation levelled at the Baltic States is yet another sign that Lithuania must boost its security.

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on 2-3 February attended an informal meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers (Gymnich) in Brussels to discuss further EU support, including military aid and sanctions, to help Ukraine fight the full-scale Russian aggression, the ministry said.

In an exclusive interview with Estonian Delfi, Andrei Illarionov shares with publisher Hans H. Luik about his experience working with Vladimir Putin, the real motives of the leader of the country that attacked Ukraine, and the behind-the-scenes relationship between the United States and Ukraine. A. ...

A Lithuanian man has been detained in Leningrad Oblast on suspicion of illegally crossing the Estonian-Russian border, the Russian news agency Interfax reported Tuesday, citing the press service of the FSB’s regional border directorate.

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis hinted Lithuanian soldiers could be deployed to Gotland, Sweden’s largest island in the Baltic Sea, to protect it from Russia.

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Wednesday visited Sweden, where he met with Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Foreign Minister Tobias Billström, Defence Minister Pål Jonson and members of the Riksdag (Parliament), the ministry reports.

Almost a third of Lithuanian residents support the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow individual Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in the Paris Olympics as neutrals, a poll commissioned by the LRT public broadcaster finds.

President Gitanas Nausėda thinks that Russia will be focused on the war in Ukraine for two more years but ultimately the Kremlin is willing to challenge NATO.

The Baltic States have decided to build a common defence line to prepare for a possible war, and this move should not be interpreted as calling Western commitments in doubt, says Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.

Water purification technologies have been travelling from Kaunas to Russia via foreign intermediary companies after Moscow launched a full-scale war on Ukraine, the LRT public broadcaster’s investigation team reported on Monday.

Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas does not reveal if President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who visited Lithuania last week, asked for help with repatriation of Ukrainian men who would be mobilised to fight against Russian invaders. However, he admitted that information may be provid...

On Wednesday night, in Vilnius train station, two Belarusians got off the transit train travelling from Kaliningrad to Saint Petersburg via Lithuania and Belarus.

German newspaper Bild has reported that the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) are preparing for a potential conflict with Russia on NATO’s eastern flank, in the Baltic States. Commenting about the Bild article, the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania stated that, as intense fighting continues i...

We will overcome one obstacle after another, be it technical, political or otherwise, says Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, referring to Ukraine's EU membership, which was opposed by European leaders. With experts talking about declining Western arms support for the war-torn country, Ukrain...

The discussion concerning the fate of frozen Russian assets is becoming more intensive as the Western powers are expected to take on this issue later in January. Most of the experts and now also many policymakers insist that Ukraine needs mo­ney to stay in the war, and Russia should be held accounta...

On Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania summoned a representative of the Russian Embassy in Vilnius and expressed strong protest over Russia’s recent missile and drone attacks against Ukraine.

Investigative journalism centre Siena reports that Arkadiy Abramovich, a son of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, had his Lithuanian passport renewed last autumn, already after his father was included on the EU sanctions list. This was confirmed to reporters by the director of the Migration Depa...

By the end of 2023, two different trends have emerged quite clearly as it comes to the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict.