South Ossetia

The Young Conservative League is holding a rally outside the Russian embassy in Vilnius on Thursday to mark the anniversary of Russia's illegal annexation of Georgia's territories in 2008.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania does not recognize the so-called “parliamentary elections” that took place on 9 June in Georgia's Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia.

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Tuesday called for remembering the lessons of Moscow's aggression as Georgia marks the 10th anniversary of its war with Russia.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Thursday called on the Migration Department to apply sanctions on people complicit in human rights violations in the occupied territories of Georgia.

The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution, reminding of the occupation of Georgia's regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Russia ten years ago.

Lithuania has condemned Syria's decision to recognize independence of Georgia's regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, occupied by Russia.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday called Georgia the leader of the EU's Eastern Partnership program, urging the country to continue its legal reforms.

Vilnius will never recognize the annexation of the Georgian territories by Russia, Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said during a visit to the administrative border with South Ossetia on Tuesday.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Tuesday is to travel to the administrative boundary line between Georgia and South Ossetia.

President Dalia Grybauskaite met with United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres as part of her visit in New York and discussed the Zapad military exercise currently held in Russia and Belarus.

On the 9-year anniversary of the Russia-Georgia war, Georgia's then leader Mikheil Saakashvili said in Vilnius that Belarus would be Moscow's next target.

A protest action against occupation of Georgia's territories was held in a square in front of the Russian Embassy in Vilnius on Tuesday, attended by Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili, Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis and some MPs.

Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has asked for Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė's support in raising issues of importance to Tbilisi at this week's NATO summit in Brussels.

Lithuania's Foreign Ministry on Monday said it did not recognize the elections held in the South Ossetia region, censuring the Russian efforts to consolidate the annexation of the Georgian region.

During a press conference in Vilnius, Ben Hodges, the commanding general of the US Army in Europe, said that the US and other NATO countries were tired of responding to unexpected moves from Russia and that they would have to take the initiative.

Lukashenko’s fortunes have changed. Once known as “Europe’s last dictator,” he has won friends in Europe, while antagonizing his traditional ally, Russia. It’s a situation that has left the Kremlin in a difficult positon: should it punish Belarus for its pro-Western tendencies? Or should it continue...

Georgia deserves NATO membership because of its reforms and participation in the Alliance's operations, Defence Minister Tinatin Khidasheli said in Vilnius on Monday.

The German daily Berliner Zeitung was the first one to report about the resignation of Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini as OSCE special envoy in Ukraine and OSCE representative at the Minsk peace talks. This lady made her name in political and diplomatic quarters when the international commission she led...

Around 50 people attended a rally organized by the opposition party Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats near the Russian Embassy in Vilnius on Friday, protesting against Moscow's actions in Georgia and calling them "creeping occupation".