State Security Department

The recent forced landing of a plane, en route from Athens to Vilnius, in Minsk is an impertinent attack that posed threat to people's lives and violated the norms of international law, Lithuania's State Security Department says.

Vilnius Regional Administrative Court will on Monday start hearing an appeal filed by Russian performer Philipp Kirkorov against the migration authority's January 19 decision to ban him from entering Lithuania for five years.

The coronavirus pandemic and the Seimas election have been named the key 2020 events in Lithuania, according to Lithuanian journalists surveyed by BNS.

A Spaniard, deemed undesirable, has been sent out of Lithuania on Thursday.

An attempt was made last fall to carry out a terror act in Vilnius, prosecutors said on Friday.

Extremists do not pose any special threat to Lithuania's national security, the chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense (CNSD) said on Wednesday.

Darius Jauniskis plans to step up Lithuania's medical intelligence capabilities during his second term as director of the State Security Department (VSD) in an effort to plug gaps highlighted by the COVID-19 crisis.

The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday backed the appointment of Darius Jauniskis as director of the country's State Security Department for a second term.

Vytautas Bakas, former chairman of Lithuania's parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, who has information on alleged unlawful collection of information by the State Security Department, says he will seek an parliamentary investigation into the information provided by an intelligen...

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has expressed his trust in law enforcement and intelligence services and warned that the dissemination of unsubstantiated information might pose threat to statehood.

Lithuania's State Security Department on Wednesday strongly denied the information provided by an intelligence officer that it allegedly collected information on people who were part of then presidential candidate Gitanas Nauseda's circle and diplomat Vygaudas Usackas.

The Lithuanian State Security Department (SSD) plans to strengthen its internal control to bring it in more into line with the Seimas ombudsman's recommendations.

Lithuanian military intelligence says Russia continues to build up its military capabilities in the Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad by creating a new division and deploying ships capable of carrying Kalibr cruise missiles.

Chinese intelligence services are looking for targets in Lithuania on the career-focused social networking website LinkedIn, Lithuanian intelligence said on Tuesday.

A court of first instance will have to hear again a complaint by Biriu Kroviniu Terminalas (BKT), a cargo handling company co-owned by businessman Igor Udovickij and Belarusian fertilizer producer Belaruskali, against the Lithuanian government over its planned restrictions for the company to expand ...

"Preventive conversations" with intelligence officials would make it easier to prove a person's guilt in court, a presidential advisor said on Tuesday.

Irina Rozova, a member of the Lithuanian Seimas, denies she tried to hide her ties with Russian diplomats from the country's State Security Department, and called her contacts with them informal but not personal.

Vitas Vasiliauskas, the board chairman of the central Bank of Lithuania, has been named the most influential civil servant in Lithuania in the traditional elite survey, the delfi.lt news website reports on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian government removed a Belarusian firm from the tender process for a Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) construction contract due to its business ties with Russian companies and contacts with individuals deemed as posing risks, according to documents available to BNS.

Lithuanian MP Irina Rozova says the State Security Department (VSD) did not warn her against attending an event of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) that sparked protests in Georgia in June.