Minister of the Interior

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.

Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė on Monday met with Police Commissioner General Renatas Požėla to discuss the ongoing search of a 9-year-old girl who went missing a day earlier in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second largest city.

As bomb threats against Lithuanian schools and kindergartens continue, the police have identified multiple email accounts from which the treats are made.

The Seimas approved on Thursday a package of amendments to the police law proposed by the Ministry of the Interior to integrate the Public Security Service (VST) into the Police Department.

On Monday, 18 September, Lithuania’s fire stations received more than 40 new fire engines: 37 medium pumpers, 6 heavy pumpers and 4 turntable ladders.

A UN Refugee Agency’s representative has stated that Lithuania should allow irregular migrants enter the country before determining their status, a position highly disputed by Lithuanian politicians. Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė suggests that the situation of migrants in Belarus should be...

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is critical of the idea of Poland and the Baltic States of possible closure of borders with Belarus. She says open borders are vital in order for Belarusians to flee from the Alexander Lukashenko regime.

The Ministry of the Interior will propose to the Government to consider closing two more checkpoints at the border with Belarus. On Monday, Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė is visiting Warsaw, to meet with Polish, Latvian and Estonian counterparts to discuss border security amid the continuin...

Lithuania has temporarily closed two checkpoints at the border with Belarus reacting to the geopolitical situation, emerging national security challenges and seeking to tackle smuggling of goods, mostly cigarettes. Authorities reported that incidents did not occur at Tverečius and Šumskas border cro...

Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė has announced that the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) and the Armed Forces will hold joint exercises in August. Border guards and the military will train to cooperate in accordance to potential security threat scenarios at the border.

Prime Minister of Lithuania Ingrida Šimonytė believes there are grounds to consider introducing identical restrictions for Belarusian citizens as Russian nationals as a result of Wagner Group presence in Belarus.

On Wednesday, politicians and representatives of the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) will visit Medininkai border control post and discuss risks related to Lithuanian citizens travelling to Belarus.

President Gitanas Nausėda says Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė should submit her findings before he may decide whether Lithuania’s figure skater Margarita Drobiazko should be stripped of citizenship.

Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė has revealed that officers and services will remain at the highest level of readiness at Lithuania’s border with Belarus as Wagner private military company is moving from Russia to Belarus. Yet she notes that so far Wagner does not pose a direct threat to Lith...

Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė on Friday met with Vilnius Mayor Valdas Benkunskas and Police Commissioner General Renatas Požėla. Afterwards, the minister announced that more security cameras would be installed in Vilnius as a crime prevention measure, even though the situation with crime h...

The Ministry of the Interior has announced that 957 children in Lithuania were victims of various sex crimes in the last three years. 48% of sex crimes consisted of possession of pornographic content showing children.

The Social Democratic party has chosen not to support the Order and Justice party's nomination of Povilas Gylys as a candidate for Minister of the Interior.

Lithuania and the European Union is likely to fail to implement the refugee resettlement plan, says Government Vice-Chancellor Rimantas Vaitkus.

American ice dancer Isabella Tobias, who was granted Lithuanian citizenship in 2013 to be able to represent the country at the Sochi Olympics, is reported to have adopted Israeli nationality ahead of the European championships. If that proves to be true, she will be stripped of her Lithuanian passpo...

Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis says Lithuania must follow the law and not emotions when considering whether to allow entry for the Academic Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Russian Army named after Alexander Alexandrov.