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On 4 June Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas discussed NATO reassurance measures in the Baltic region, bilateral defence cooperation and other issues of security and defence at a meeting with Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Lithuania David Hunt, said the Ministry of National Defence.

That’s because the first two positions in Russia’s enemy ratings are reserved for extremely superior players. Lithuania in the third spot might sound counterintuitive, but it’s no joke, it’s an actual fact. But let’s unpack it in proper order. It comes as no surprise that Russia’s enemy number one i...

“Hope Run 2015” in Klaipėda was dedicated to the memory of the first British ambassador to independent Lithuania Michael Peart.

Free movement of persons is a fundamental value, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė stated in Riga on Friday, commenting on the United Kingdom's efforts to renegotiate the immigration rules with the European Union (EU).

A sculpture of the legendary musician and songwriter of The Beatles, John Lennon, was unveiled in Vilnius on Thursday.

Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, former shareholders of Lithuania's bankrupt bank Snoras, continue to fight their extradition to Lithuania, where they face fraud charges.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will start face-to-face discussions at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga on Friday with European partners on renegotiating Britain's position in the European Union (EU) ahead of an in-out referendum by 2017.

Following the UK Conservatives' victory in Thursday's general elections, Prime Minister David Cameron will have to keep his promise to call a referendum on the country's EU membership, and the immigration policy is likely to be tightened, Lithuanian political scientists say.

Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, former shareholders of Lithuania's bankrupt bank Snoras, shall be extradited to Lithuania, two judges of the High Court in London have said after hearing the case, the web portal lrytas.lt reports.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has congratulated Queen Elizabeth II and the people of the United Kingdom on the birth of the daughter of the Duke of Cambridge William and Duchess Catherine.

As tensions are brewing between Russia and the West, the three tiny states on the coast of the Baltic Sea - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - seem to be at the epicentre of this imminent showdown.

"I am deeply saddened by the news of Michael Peart passing. He was a true friend of Lithuania and the first Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Lithuania. We shall always remember Michael with great respect, with gratitude. He will remain in our hearts forever as a true friend of Lithuania," reads t...

British diplomat Michael Peart, the UK's first ambassador to Lithuania, has passed away, the Lithuanian Embassy in London announced on Thursday.

A year ago, the Kremlin helped stage an illegal and illegitimate “referendum” in Crimea that culminated in Russia annexing Crimea from Ukraine, redrawing the map of Europe by force, and deepening the burgeoning crisis in east Ukraine.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron is the latest European leader to reject Russian President Vladimir Putin's invitation to attend victory day celebrations this May in Moscow.

I would like to share my celebration with you. Some of you might have noticed me wearing amber today – this is not to say that I am not an amber fan in general, but this time I was wearing my grandmother’s necklace for a reason. I thought I would share with you some thoughts that I wrote for my inte...

Great Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has joined the warnings made by other high-ranking officials about the possibility of the Baltic states being the next Russian target after Ukraine in an effort to test NATO's strength.

The United Kingdom and the European Union are guilty of a "catastrophic misreading" of the moods in the Kremlin prior to the crisis in Ukraine, which led to a failure to appreciate what was to come, a report by Britain's parliamentary committee says.

Lithuania's Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the country has not yet faced the phenomenon of foreign fighters and has no reports of a single Lithuanian citizen fighting on the side of terrorists. Nevertheless, in his words, Lithuania takes the threat very seriously and understands that...

The UK is to send up to 1,000 troops to a high readiness force and deploy four RAF Typhoon jets for air policing in the Baltic states to boost NATO’s collective security, the Defence Secretary has announced.