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Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis will seek that the entire material of a parliamentary investigation into interest group's unlawful influence on the country's political system should be made public.

The Committee on National Security and Defense's probe into unlawful influence on political processes in Lithuania involves five to six interest groups, the parliamentary committee's chairman said on Wednesday.

The chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) confirmed on Monday that the panel, which is conducting a probe into interest groups' unlawful influence on politicians, has received a part of declassified information from security services.

The Seimas of Lithuania's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) won't probe the circumstances mentioned in email exchanges between President Dalia Grybauskaitė and former Liberal Movement leader Eligijus Masiulis, charged with corruption, CNSD chairman Vytautas Bakas says.

The Seimas of Lithuania's Committee on National Security and Defense, currently carrying out a probe into interest groups' influence on politicians, is also interested in journalist Tomas Dapkus working for a TV channel owned by MG Baltic, the Lietuvos Rytas daily writes.

Vilniaus Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says that he is on Russia's blacklist of Lithuanians barred from entering the country.

An undisclosed number of Lithuanian citizens, including several journalists and MPs, have been banned from coming to Russia.

The Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) has completed its probe into interest groups' influence on political processes and now asks for permission to declassify the materials of the investigation.

Lithuania's Ministry of National Defense is proposing changing soldiers' pay system and improving their social security, the Lietuvos Žinios daily writes.

Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee, is skeptical about the proposal to remove conservative MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas from the committee after he was questioned in a political corruption investigation.

The Lithuanian Special Investigation Service (STT), the country's main counter-corruption agency, should mainly focus on public procurement in various fields, says Žydrūnas Bartkus, candidate for director of the institution.

The chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence says that he will support the opposition's proposal to hold early elections in June.

Employees of the Lithuanian migration system were involved in schemes facilitating illegal entry in the country, Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas has confirmed.

Rosatom-controlled Nukem, the contractor for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's almost-complete decommissioning projects worth hundreds of millions of euros, should no longer be in charge of these projects, the chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence, said.

The Lithuanian parliament's National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday heard information from the Special Investigation Service (STT) about possibly unlawful influence of businesses and interest groups upon political processes, however, the committee's chairman Vytautas Bakas refused to el...

A special government commission in Lithuania will be able to vet state-owned and privately-owned strategic enterprises' deals exceeding 10 percent of their annual revenue.

The Lithuanian Constitutional Court began on Tuesday a public hearing on MP Mindaugas Bastys' impeachment case.