The Lithuanian government appointed on Wednesday Renatas Pozela, the head of the country's State Border Guard Service, as police commissioner general.
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Renatas Požėla (born 27 February 1974 in Šiauliai) is a Lithuanian official, former police officer.
Vietnamese diplomats and officials will discuss migration issues with Lithuanian border officials during their visit to Lithuania starting on Tuesday.
Lithuanian border guards last night prevented four Pakistanis with World Cup Fan IDs from entering the country.
Football fans have smoothly travelled from mainland Russia to its exclave of Kaliningrad via Lithuania, Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas said on Thursday.
Around 1,600 football fans traveled by train to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad via Lithuania on Thursday night without any incidents, Renatas Požėla, commander of border guards, told BNS Lithuania.
Around 2,500 football fans crossed the Lithuanian border on Friday night, going on special trains to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Three Ghanaian nationals travelling by train from mainland Russia to the Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad for FIFA World Cup matches have been denied entry to Lithuania, the border guard chief said on Monday.
Lithuanian and Russian officials are starting to coordinate efforts to manage increased migration flows to Kaliningrad, which will host some of the 2018 FIFA World Cup matches this June.
Lithuanian and Russian officials have agreed to triple the number of passenger trains to the Russian Kaliningrad region when the Russian exclave hosts matches of the FIFA World Cup.
Lithuanian border guards have been allowed to use weapons and other measures against unidentified drones, the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) said.
Lithuania plans to purchase new equipment to improve the protection of the state border, according to the plan of measures for the implementation of the governmental programme published on Thursday.
Prosecutors of the Kaunas county have detained Nerijus Ašmenskas, chief of the Aleksandras Barauskas checkpoint of the Varėna unit of the State Border Guard Service, border chief Renatas Požela confirmed to delfi.lt news portal.
Deputy Commissioner General of Lithuania's police Renatas Požela is to be appointed head of the country's State Border Guard Service, the government said on Thursday.
