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The narrative about the Great Patriotic war (1941-1945) is still important for Russia's inhabitants. Russian sociologist Lev Gudkov observed that this historical event is on the top in the mass consciousness of Russian society. It nothing unusual that modern Kremlin propaganda uses it for its own pu...

The foreign ministers of Lithuania and Germany will Thursday sign an agreement on handover of the February 16, 1918 Independence Act to Lithuania for five years.

A valuable collection of books has been handed over to the Thomas Mann Memorial Museum in Lithuania's Curonian Spit resort of Nida, LRT Television has reported.

The foreign ministers of Lithuania and Denmark on Tuesday criticized the plans of expanding the Nord Stream gas pipeline on the bottom of the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany, pledging efforts to influence the European Commission (EC) into being stricter in connection to the project.

After German parliamentary elections secured Chancellor Angela Merkel with yet another term in office, Berlin will remain Lithuania's most important partner in Europe, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

In a discussion at the European Parliament, Lithuanian MEP Rolandas Paksas on Thursday called on politicians to refrain from criticizing plans to expand the Nord Stream gas pipeline between Russia and Germany and to look for benefits in the project that causes concern to the Lithuanian government.

Germany plans to hand the original copy of Lithuania's 1918 Act of Independence recently found in Berlin's diplomatic archive over to Lithuania for five years, diplomatic sources have confirmed to BNS.

An Inaugural President Valdas Adamkus conference Restoring Regional Leadership took place at the Vilnius University on August 22. The Conference was hosted by Lithuania's former President Valdas Adamkus, and focused on Ukraine's future, the region's energy security and Europe-US relations. Read the ...

Germany has given Lithuania copies of a 1939 Soviet-Nazi pact that divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

BALTRON Squadron Exercise 17/2 of the Baltic unit of warships, BALTRON, will take place in Lithuania's territorial waters and exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea this week.

In March 2016, Ms. Merkel and Mr. Erdogan reached an agreement on refugees, which would eventually involve all of Europe. Countless refugees, namely Syrians, were trying to reach Europe and in particular Germany, where public opinion slowly started to show signs of opposition to their reception.

Lithuanian diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas, the European Union's (EU) ambassador to Russia, says he will shortly end his diplomatic service in Moscow and engage in analytical work and politics upon return to Lithuania, listing the demographic crisis as the key challenge in his home country.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė is scheduled to meet with US President Donald Trump in Warsaw on Thursday in the framework of the Three Seas Initiative summit.

Norbert Lammert, president of Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, is coming to Lithuania this week, lzinios.lt news portal reported.

Darius Semaška, Lithuania's outgoing ambassador to the Netherlands and a former chief foreign policy advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė, is proposed as the country's new envoy in Germany.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė plans to attend a memorial ceremony for former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the eastern French city of Strasbourg on Saturday, her press office has told BNS.

Lithuanian politicians and businesses hope that the United Kingdom will remain open and part of the single market after it leaves the European Union, but they also prepare themselves for a "hard Brexit" scenario, the business daily Verslo Zinios reported on Tuesday.

One of the things Lithuania is best known for is the laser industry. While perhaps not at the very pinnacle of the industry, the country does not compare all too poorly against highly developed states such as the USA, Germany, France, China and others. And at the same time the industry shows no sign...