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Hungarian President Janos Ader said on Tuesday that his country might consider buying liquefied gas from northern Europe, including Lithuania.

A fake news story alleging that NATO is planning to attack Belarus was planted on Kas Vyksta Kaune (What's on in Kaunas) during a cyber-attack in late October, the news website said on Thursday.

Lithuania's ruling block on Thursday failed to muster enough votes to override President Dalia Grybauskaitė's veto of amendments aimed at providing a state subsidy to the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party (LSDDP).

Lithuania will be able send more troops and civilians to international operations in the next two years.

Fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of NATO's Baltic air policing mission were scrambled once last week to intercept and accompany a Russian military plane flying in the international space over the Baltic Sea.

Colonel Modestas Petrauskas, commander of the Lithuanian Special Operations Forces, is set to be appointed Lithuania's military representative to NATO and the European Union after the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense gave the green light to his appointment.

Lithuania will consider sending more troops to Afghanistan and also appoint a civilian representative, says Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis, currently on a visit to Afghanistan.

Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis, currently on a visit to Georgia, on Friday met with his Georgian counterpart Levan Izoria.

NATO's fighter-jets patrolling Baltic airspace were scrambled five times last week to identify and escort Russian military aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

The Seimas violated its Statute when it adopted an amendment to the budget bill that allows the state to borrow money to provide funding to new political parties, the parliament's Commission for Ethics and Procedures said on Wednesday.

Tbilisi will continue to seek integration into the West regardless of who wins next Sunday's presidential election, Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said in Vilnius on Tuesday.

Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani is visiting Vilnius on Tuesday to discuss on his country's EU and NATO integration and the security situation with Lithuanian politicians.

The Lithuanian state investment program earmarks more than 7.7 million euros for completing the construction of a complex of buildings of the State Security Department, or VSD.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday awarded Lieutenant General Joerg Kurt Willy Vollmer, commander of the German Field Army, with the Cross of Officer of the Order for Merits to Lithuania.

The Mechanized Infantry Brigade Iron Wolf of the Lithuanian Armed Forces has been affiliated to a German Army division.

Vygaudas Ušackas, a former diplomat seeking the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (HU-LCD) nomination to run in next year's presidential election, calls on Lithuania to join a European military intervention force initiative launched by some EU member states.

Vygaudas Ušackas, a former EU ambassador to Moscow, says he does not think Russia poses a direct military threat to the Baltic countries.

Estonia is often presented as a model country among the Baltic States, however it faces all the same security challenges as Lithuania and Latvia, ranging from defence spending to ensuring security in the face of difficult relations with Russia, to finally issues with NATO itself. The Lithuania Tribu...