Terrorism

Director of the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) Vilmantas Vitkauskas describes the assault on Russian opposition representative Leonid Volkov in Vilnius as a well planned and professional operation. He told public radio LRT on Thursday that this was the first such case of political terroris...

Lithuania plans to establish an anti-money laundering competence center as the Nordic and Baltic region has been hit by several money laundering scandals in recent years.

An attempt was made last fall to carry out a terror act in Vilnius, prosecutors said on Friday.

Один из создателей ежегодно проводимых монстраций художник Артём Лоскутов не оппозиционер и не диссидент. Сибиряк с несколькими судебными производствами за плечами, режиссер задает вопрос: "Почему мы пасуем перед чекистом?"

Unreliable individuals have entered Lithuania due to gaps in the country's migration system, says Darius Jauniškis, chief of the State Security Department (VSD).

Lithuania's Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas is Monday holding a meeting with top executives of private security companies to discuss threats of terrorism.

Lithuania is willing to help Allies with sources of terrorism, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said after the Friday's attack in the Swedish capital Stockholm where a truck ran into a crowd of people.

Lithuania's intelligence institutions on Monday published the traditional report of national security threats. BNS Lithuania presents the six key threats listed in the document:

Lithuania is looking into a situation where copies of identity documents of members of an official Lithuanian delegation that visited Ukraine last year have recently appeared in the media supporting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, the 15min.lt news website reported.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis have condemned the terror attack that claimed a multitude of lives in Istanbul in early hours of 2017.

Russia and Belarus may be acting in Lithuania under the disguise of terrorism, says Darius Jauniškis, director of the State Security Department.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Tuesday called on Lithuanians not to panic in the wake of Monday's deadly truck attack in Berlin, saying that there are no signals of an increased threat of terrorism in the country.

The Lithuanian government on 8 December approved a proposal to obligate operators to register pre-paid SIM cards, a measure that is expected to help combat telephone fraudsters, and will now send the respective amendments to the parliament for approval.

По данным проведенного Би-би-си исследования, с начала 2016 года число смертей в результате терактов в Западной Европе достигло самого высокого уровня с 2004 года.

Friday's attack in the German city of Munich should not be seen as Islamic, since it could have been a "chain reaction" to the the recent wave of terror attacks across Europe, says Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here...

The likelihood of terrorist attacks in Lithuania remains unchanged, with no data available on planned attacks, says Darius Jauniškis, the director of the State Security Department.

The mass massacre in Nice is an attack on the values of France, a member of the French Senate, Helene Conway-Mouret, said in Vilnius on Friday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuanian expatriate tells how he saw the lorry that killed over 80 people in Nice drive over people's bodies just metres from him.