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President Gitanas Nausėda on Thursday signed decrees stripping Russian businessman Yuri Kudimov and Russian ballerina Ilze Liepa of Lithuanian citizenship that had been granted by exception.

President Gitanas Nausėda says he is positive about the possibility of granting Lithuanian citizenship to American ice dancer Allison Reed.

The Citizenship Commission has issued a recommendation to the president that Russian ballerina Ilzė Liepa should lose Lithuanian citizenship, which was granted by exception, as she poses a threat to national security.

Six out of ten Lithuanians agree that American figure skater Allison Reed should be granted Lithuanian citizenship, a poll shows.

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.

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...

Jews with roots in Lithuania, known as Litvaks, have been active in applying for Lithuanian citizenship after the country a year ago amended the law to make it easier for them to do so, officials said on Thursday.

Several hundred applications for Lithuanian citizenship have already been approved since the country amended the law last June to ease the rules for descendants of Jews who left Lithuania in the interwar period to apply for a Lithuanian passport.

Lithuanian MPs have submitted a bill on reinstating citizenship for Jews who left Lithuania between the two world wars and their descendants. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

As the Migration Department and courts have been rejecting citizenship applications from Jews of Lithuanian origin, lawmakers are determined to amend the Law on Citizenship.

Lithuania's citizenship laws recognize the right of people who lived in Lithuania in the period 1918-1940 and their offspring to claim Lithuanian citizenship but recently a growing number of applications by Litvaks, Lithuanian Jews, have been rejected by the Lithuanian Ministry of Interior, leading ...

Some Jews in Israel and the Republic of South Africa who left Lithuania between the two world wars and their descendants have been applying to have their Lithuanian citizenship restored, but receiving a negative answer.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed amendments to the Law on Citizenship, allowing people with "great merit" to the Lithuanian state to keep dual citizenship.

Lithuanian businessman Aivaras Abromavičius, who was recently appointed to run Ukraine's Ministry of Economy, is about to lose his Lithuanian passport.

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On Monday, retired NBA player Žydrūnas Ilgauskas officially lost his Lithuanian citizenship. The decree was signed by Lithuanian Minister of Interior Saulius Skvernelis.

The Lithuanian citizenship was granted to relatively few individuals compared to many other European Union (EU) countries in 2012, the EU's Eurostat statistics agency said.

After news broke that basketball player Žydrūnas Ilgauskas would lose his Lithuanian passport after accepting US citizenship, Lithuanian leaders are eager to avoid potential embarrassment.