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If general elections were held in Lithuania now, the opposition Liberal Movement would fail to cross the minimum barrier stipulated by the law, a new survey shows.
LiTak-Tak, a Lithuanian producer of air traffic control systems and radars, has failed to get an exports license due to information provided by the country's State Security Department (VSD).
The amendments on the publication of the names of former KGB agents in Lithuania, who have voluntarily admitted their past collaboration, will be corrected, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says following criticism by the State Security Department.
Making public the names of people who have confessed about their past collaboration with the KGB would pose a serious threat to Lithuania's security and open the way for Russian blackmail, the State Security Department warned on Thursday.
A dispute has on Thursday erupted in the Lithuanian parliament over a proposal to publish information on people who admitted to have collaborated with the KGB, with the parliamentary opposition warning of the Kremlin's interest.
Raimondas Šukys, a minister in several former Lithuanian governments, has taken the State Security Department, or VSD, to court over the intelligence agency's claim that people from MG Baltic, one of the country's largest business groups, exerted influence on him.
Media owners in Lithuania should be subjected to the same requirements as investors in the country's strategic companies, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday.
Lithuanian prosecutors refused on Monday to open a pre-trial investigation regarding the disclose of a document from the State Security Department (VSD) in the media.
Lawmakers' proposals on new requirements for television owners and managers might increase the media's dependence on politicians, a media expert warns.
The Seimas of Lithuania's Committee on National Security and Defense on Friday registered the conclusions of its parliamentary probe into business groups' influence on political process and its annexes on the legal act base.