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Amidst the European Union's (EU) efforts to solve the immigration crisis, the Lithuanian government is considering the possibility to assign a helicopter and a crew of the State Border Guard Service for rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, the prime minister's spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Following a warning issued by intelligence agencies about the efforts to recruit Lithuanian border guards in Belarus, the chief of the State Border Guard Service has tightened the rules for their travels abroad.

Security was stepped at Vilnius and Naujoji Vilnia Train Stations in Lithuania on Thursday in response to information that Russian army conscripts might be crossing to the Russian region of Kaliningrad via Lithuania, according to the lrytas.lt news website.

After the State Defence Council decided that conscription of 19-26-year-olds should be reintroduced for a 5-year period and as the Seimas is preparing to consider the issue, Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says Lithuania has learned five lessons from the conflict in Ukraine.

Deputy Commissioner General of Lithuania's police Renatas Požela is to be appointed head of the country's State Border Guard Service, the government said on Thursday.

The installation of surveillance equipment with Russian-produced seismic sensors has not been started yet. And its acquisition might be halted following the evaluation of risks, Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis says.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has proposed changes that would ban issuing residency permits to foreigners who are suspected of or charged with crimes, as well as put the Police Department, the State Border Guard Service and the State Security Department under the obligation of submitting ...

Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis has ordered a review of public procurement tenders for IT services in the ministry's institutions over the last five years. The minister says that the fact that the same company won disproportionally many contracts raises suspicion about preferential treat...

Institutions of the Lithuanian interior system, namely, the State Border Guard Service, the Public Security Service and the VIP Protection Department, will be more actively involved in the training organized by the Armed Forces.

The European Commission has been informed abut the restrictions imposed by Russia on Lithuanian carriers who are subjected to strict customs checks, European Union Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas said on Thursday.

Moscow's border restrictions for Lithuanian-registered cars and trucks are a short-lived measure, since a long-term blockade would backfire on Russia, according to Nerijus Mačiulis, the chief economist at Swedbank Lithuania.

NATO will hold more military exercises in Lithuania in response to Russian actions, Lithuania's Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas said on Wednesday.

A Vilnius court on Thursday rejected as unfounded an appeal of Russian citizen Alexander Dyukov who asked the court to revoke Lithuanian border guards' decision to refuse him entry into the country and delete a relevant entry from the Interior Ministry's national registry.

As the Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, on Tuesday endorsed President Dalia Grybauskaitė's amendments to the martial law, the country's armed forces are to be expanded.

Lithuanian border guards guarding the country's border in the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon will have a new ship built for them. It should be launched next year.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė suggests that officers of the Public Security Service and the VIP Protection Department should be listed as part of the Armed Forces in case of war.

Lithuania is recalling the enhanced border protection, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.

Russian historian and director of the Moscow-based Historical Memory Foundation Alexander Dyukov, a persona non grata in Lithuania, was on Thursday denied entry to the Baltic country and sent back to Moscow.

A sharp increase in the number of detained border violators from Vietnam has been observed in Lithuania, the State Border Guard Service says.