Baltic Sea

NATO fighter jets serving in the Baltic air policing mission performed three scrambles last week to identify and escort Russian military planes over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence Ministry has said.

MP Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee, suggested in an interview that Russian forces could have landed on the Lithuanian coast of the Curonian Spit during military exercise.

Vokietijos kapitalo bendrovė „Rhenus Svoris“ kartu su pagrindine investuotoja Norvegijos kompanija „Baltic Sea Property AS“ Vilniuje pradeda statyti modernų 10 mln. eurų vertės logistikos kompleksą, rašoma pranešime spaudai.

On Tuesday, China Merchants Group (CMG), a Chinese state-owned transportation, logistics, real estate and financial conglomerate, confirmed that it will continue with plans to invest in Lithuania, Verslo Žinios reports.

Russia's intensifying military activities have forced NATO to respond in kind, with the Alliance saying it will conduct more military exercises in Europe, and the United States promising to deploy far more equipment and forces in Europe. In 2017, Washington is setting aside $3.4 billion for Europe's...

The Port of Klaipėda is concluding a deal with a shipping company that will offer passenger ferry services from the Lithuanian Baltic Sea port.

Russian carriers are continuing to use the port of Klaipėda after receiving a small number of transit permits from Poland to release the logjam at the port that developed from a dispute between the two countries.

NATO-Russian relations are where they are, at historic lows, because of what Moscow does, not because of how Western nations react to it, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius argues in an op-ed piece for Politico. Russia needs to prove it deserves to be spoken to, while holding meetings for...

Concepts of military strategy and doctrine have long influenced the political and military geography of the Baltic region.

Lithuania and Slovenia agree that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline Russia plans to build would shatter the European Union's unity and distort competition on the European gas market, the Lithuanian President's Office says.

Three Lithuanian members of virtual community Polar expeditions - Algimantas Kuras, Saulius Damulevičius and Vytenis Dapkevičius - are crossing the Baltic Sea on skis.

Neringa, the municipality located on Lithuania's picturesque Curonian Spit, has become a Mecca for the country's rich and famous. However, second home owners, who spend most of the year in Vilnius and other major cities, are a mixed blessing for the beautiful region.

Klaipėda seaport reached an all-time record level shipping traffic last year of more than 38 million tons and this year is still holding its leadership position as traffic declines at other Baltic sea ports.

Defence ministers of NATO countries on Wednesday endorsed plans to step up the Alliance's military presence in Eastern Europe in response to Russia's actions, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said.

Lithuania and Ukraine have signed a preliminary memorandum on joining a new cargo train route, the so-called New Silk Road, that would transport rail container traffic directly from the Baltic directly to China.

A new Marriott Hotel is to be built in the centre of Palanga by the end of 2018, with the international hotel group making a major investment in the Lithuanian resort town.

The Kremlin‘s propaganda rarely shocks anymore and hardly registers as news with most people but some of it deserves attention because when a specific propaganda message is repeated over and over, it is done in an attempt to embed it in our minds as being the uncontestable truth. In the case of Kali...

Sweden would defend Lithuania in case of a military attack, say Swedish experts, although they also acknowledge that after two centuries of neutrality, the country‘s military has such a reduced capability that some Swedes doubt that their armed forces would be sufficient to protect their own country...

Russia’s energy minister said a second gas pipeline, Nordstream 2, that will bypass the Baltic States and Poland to supply Germany directly with natural gas was a key energy project for Russia in 2016.

On 9-15 November, fighter aircraft of the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic States performed one A-Scramble to intercept a foreign aircraft in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Ministry of National Defence reports.