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The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Twitter feed remains among the top six diplomatic accounts that have the most mutual connections on the social network, according to the annual Twiplomacy survey published on Wednesday.

On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift.

JAV vyriausybė, kaip teigia Islandijos nacionalinis transliuotojas, svarsto atnaujinti JAV karinių pajėgų bazavimą Islandijoje, nes neseniai įvykę incidentai, kai Rusijos karinių pajėgų bombonešiai artinosi prie šios šalies oro erdvės, kelia susirūpinimą JAV, Islandijai ir Norvegijai, praneša LRT RA...

Klaipėda University‘s training sailboat Brabander is preparing for its longest journey yet – a 5,000-mile-long odyssey along the coast of Norway, a brief pause in the Shetland and the Faroe Islands, and then around Iceland.

On February 11, 1991, Iceland was the first country to recognize Lithuania's independence, and Iceland‘s Foreign Affairs Minister at the time Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson said it showed that small countries coming together could exert real influence on the international stage.

Icelandic policy economist and diplomat Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Michael Shure have received Vilnius University honorary doctorates.

A new plaque was unveiled on Iceland Street 1 on which the name of the street is written in Icelandic in recognition of the support Iceland has given Lithuania over the years since independence.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius participated in the Nordic-Baltic prime ministers' meeting (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), held in Reykjavik, capital of Iceland, the prime minister's press service reports.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with representatives of the Lithuanian community of Iceland on the eve of the meeting of the Nordic-Baltic (NB8) prime ministers in Reykjavik.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius left for a working visit to Iceland to participate in a meeting of the prime ministers of the Nordic and Baltic countries (NB8) in Reykjavik on Wednesday, the prime minister's press service said.

Europe's new front-line states are the Nordic countries, Baltic countries, plus Poland, which share a common concern about a "revisionist and rapidly-rearming Russia", according to the Baltic Sea Security Report by the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Responding to a joint declaration of the Nordic countries of intentions to step up military cooperation in the face of Russian aggression, Russia's Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Sunday, saying that moves by Finland and Sweden towards closer ties with NATO were of "special concern", Reuters ...

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland have announced a joint declaration on Friday, pledging to step up military cooperation among themselves and the Baltic states, AFP reports.

At the bilateral meeting on 10 March in Vilnius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius expressed his gratitude to Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson for his country's courageous action - recognition of Lithuania's independence on 11 February 1991. In ...

As the first country to have recognized Lithuania's independence from the Soviet Union, Iceland now inspires Lithuania to support Ukraine, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after meeting with the Icelandic counterpart in Vilnius on Tuesday.

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Jonas Ohman - a founder of the civic initiative Blue and Yellow, a Lithuania-based group that helps to gather funds, acquire some needed military gear and transport it to Ukrainian military units on the ground. He has just returned from Ukraine, where he ...

Lithuanian school in Iceland, Trys Spalvos (Three Colours), strives to educate its small pupils' artistic and creative abilities. It has therefore invited Icelandic writer and illustrator Áslaug Jónsdóttir, co-author of children's books about the skrímsl, fantasy creatures similar to trolls, to visi...

Pigių skrydžių bendrovės atsirado vos prieš kelis dešimtmečius, tačiau greitai įsitvirtino civilinės aviacijos sektoriuje. „PricewaterhouseCoopers“ duomenimis, šiuo metu tokios oro linijų bendrovės skraidina daugiau nei 25 proc. keleivių, rašo „The Business Insider“.

Pigių skrydžių oro linijos saugumu nenusileidžia brangius skrydžius pardavinėjančioms bendrovėms, pastebi ekspertai. Tarp 10 saugiausių aviakompanijų galima rasti ne vieną pigių skrydžių aviakompaniją. Civilinės aviacijos administracijos direktoriaus pavaduotojas Alvydas Šumskas tvirtina, kad šios k...

A visit of the Swedish royal family is planned in Lithuania in the coming autumn. According to Jovita Neliupšienė, chief adviser to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on foreign policy issues, visits of the Icelandic and Baltic presidents are also planned this year.