If the European Union fails to provide sufficient funding for the Kaliningrad transit scheme, this will make travel by Russian citizens via Lithuania more difficult and may jeopardize security, Linas Linkevicius has warned.
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President Gitanas Nauseda has granted pardons to two Russian citizens jailed in Lithuania for espionage, opening the wat for a prisoner swap with Moscow.
Lithuanian customs officers detained a shipment of smuggled cigarettes worth almost 2 million euros in Kybartai on Thursday morning, the Customs Criminal Service said.
Lithuanian border guards detained a Belarusian citizen in the country's southern Lazdijai District last Thursday as he was taking three Russian asylum seekers abroad.
Lithuanian diplomats are working toward a coordinated EU policy of not recognizing Russian passports issued to residents of Eastern Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry said, adding that the country will take unilateral action if the initiative fails.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania expresses its regret regarding the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In the early morning of 25 June in Strasbourg, PACE decided to amend its Rules of Procedure, weakening its sanctions mechanism, and opening the wa...
A Lithuanian court has rejected a request to move Konstantin Mikhailov, a former OMON officer sentenced to life in the 1991 killing Lithuanian border guards and police officers at the Medininkai border checkpoint, from a prison to a correction house.
More than half of Russian citizens who cast their votes in Lithuania in Sunday's State Duma elections supported the ruling United Russia party, based on preliminary results.