Russian officers have formally charged Lithuania citizen Aristidas Tamošaitis with espionage. He is currently being held under arrest in Moscow.
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Romuald Lipskij, former employee of Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation) state company who is charged with spying for Belarus, on Friday finished giving testimony to a Vilnius court.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday refused to comment on Russia's claim that it had detained a Lithuanian military intelligence officer.
The report on the detention of a Lithuanian intelligence officer in Russia is a response to the arrest of a Russian citizen, suspected of spying for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), in Lithuania, says Mečys Laurinkus, former chief of the Lithuanian State Security Department.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday it had detained a Lithuanian intelligence officer. Lithuanian officials have not provided any comment on the report.
Lithuanian citizen Romuald Lipskij, a former employee of state company Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation), accused of spying for Belarus, says Sergey Kurulenko, an agent of the Chief Intelligence Board of the Belarusian Armed Forces' General Staff, wanted to know the numbers of US planes landing in Vil...
Nobody should be surprised over Russia spying in Lithuania, the Baltic country's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says.
Lithuania's decision to publicly prosecute foreign spies is a good deterrence measure, reflecting the attitude towards Russia as a hostile country, says Edward Lucas, the author of a book on Russian spies.
A Russian citizen has been detained in Lithuania on the suspicion of spying, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Monday.
The Belarusian KGB agent, Sergey Kurulenko, who collected information in Lithuania used to live in the Baltic country and even graduated from a school here. His mother and sister also live in Lithuania, it emerged during a hearing of Vilnius Regional Court on Thursday.
A Vilnius court on Friday heard the first witnesses in the Belarusian spying case. The first witness was an employee of the Trakai Tourism Association, Violeta Karpičienė, who was in contact with Belarusian KGB agent Sergey Kurulenko suspected of collecting information in Lithuania.
Lithuanian citizen Romualdas Lipskis, former employee of Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation) suspected of spying, tells the court he is not guilty.
Vilnius City District Court on Wednesday sanctioned arrest of a Lithuanian army officer suspected of spying and another person he provided information to.
A lot of Russian spies are operating in Lithuania, so it’s likely that the recently-detained Lithuanian Air Force officer worked for Moscow, says Marius Laurinavičius, an analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre.
The Lithuanian soldier detained on the suspicion of spying served in the Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai, which accommodates the NATO air policing mission, the base's commander Lieutenant Colonel Vidmantas Raklevičius confirmed on Wednesday.
Lithuanian prosecutors have detained several individuals suspected of spying for a foreign government. One of the suspects is an officer of the Lithuanian Army.
Earlier this month, experts convened in Brussels for a conference titled 'The Second Cold War: Heating Up?' Even among the plethora of current 'New Cold War' themed events, this one stood out: the organiser, Latvian MEP Tatjana Zdanoka, has been accused of being a Russian agent of influence – a spy.
After identifying persons who spied for Belarus, Lithuania's special services attempted, unsuccessfully, to re-recruit them, says the State Security Department's Director General Gediminas Grina.
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A Lithuanian national, who served as a paramedic in the country's Armed Forces, has been charged with spying against the state. The criminal case was handed to court on Wednesday, the Prosecutor General's Office said.