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Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis will Tuesday meet with members of the United States Congress.

Lack of unity in the European Union's (EU) stance on the United States' move to tighten sanctions for Russia is not a split in the community, however, a sign of stagnation in the organization, which is tying its hands behind its back, says Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Šįkart mokslinis eksperimentas žada rimtus rezultatus: pakartotas modifikuotas ir atnaujintas 1953-ųjų gyvybės atsiradimo eksperimentas - gali būti, kad reikia tik daugiau kantrybės ir kolboje užsimegs gyvybė.

The victory of Donald Trump of the Republicans in the United States presidential election should not change the country's relations with Lithuania, leaders of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union that won the recent parliamentary elections told BNS on the morning of November 9.

United States Vice-President Joe Biden has said that the Baltic states have no reasons to doubt US commitments to NATO, downplaying the remarks about NATO made by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Lithuania will appoint defence advisers at its embassies in the United States and Ukraine, in line with a decision adopted by the government on Wednesday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Attacks in Brussels last week were not an assault against NATO, US Ambassador to the North Atlantic Council Douglas Lute tells LRT television. He visited Lithuania last week as part of a NATO delegation ahead of the summit in Warsaw this summer where Lithuania and other eastern Alliance members are ...

The election for US President is well underway and the races are so close that only a few percentage points could have an enormous effect on not only the Baltic States, but all of Europe.

On 17 September, Ambassador of Lithuania to the United States of America Rolandas Kriščiūnas presented his credential letters to the President of the US Barack Obama, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has presented letters of credence to Rolandas Kriščiūnas, Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America, the presidency reports.

On 17 April, Lithuanian Ambassador to the USA Žygimantas Pavilionis opened a new Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Richmond, Virginia, Lithuania's MFA reports.

In the meeting with UK's Director for International Trade & Export Control of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Chris Barton, the Lithuanian Government's Chancellor Alminas Mačiulis brought up the subject of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and its current r...

International relations expert Raimundas Lopata says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently engaging in the classic chicken game with the West.

Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis starts the New Year with his first ever visit to Portland, Oregon. Just about a year ago, His Excellency’s plans to explore this town were hampered by a snow and ice storm that unexpectedly hit the Rose city just two days prior to the scheduled trip. However, this ti...

On 15 January, the duo of Dalia Dedinskaitė and Gleb Pyšniak played a recital in remembrance of Lithuania’s Freedom Defenders’ Day at the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington. The duo performed works by Zoltán Kodály, Vytautas Barkauskas, and Maurice Ravel.

A new rotation of US soldiers, deployed in Lithuania with heavy combat equipment, the Stryker armoured personnel carriers, will begin their shift as of next week.

When an e-mail from Vilnius came with an invitation to join the traditional annual run "On the Road of Life and Death", we were listening to Brahms' piano concerto in Portland performed by a student of the prestigious Rice University in Houston (Texas), Lithuanian pianist Rūta Kuzmickaitė who was bo...

Lithuania's consulate general in Los Angeles, United States, will open on January 15, the government decided at its meeting on 23 December. Selection of the consul is yet to be completed.

The American-Lithuanian Business Council, which was set up last year, works to promote investment between the two countries - sometimes by pointing out investment opportunities in, say, Lithuania's striving for energy independence and sometimes by playing up the Lithuanian ancestry of many a success...

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said on Wednesday that the reports on alleged CIA-operated prison in Lithuania will have to be investigated by the Prosecutor General's Office, and if the information proves correct, Lithuania will have to take responsibility.