(MENAFN) Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday denounced Lithuania’s decision to shut its border with Belarus indefinitely, calling it a “crazy scam.” The move came a day after Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene announced...
(MENAFN) The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a stern warning to Lithuania against pursuing "provocative steps" regarding transit access to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova declared on Wednesday that there should...
(MENAFN) Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday criticized Lithuania’s intentions to seal the border between the two nations, calling the move a “crazy scam.” The announcement came after Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene...
(MENAFN) Lithuania's Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene declared Monday that the nation will indefinitely seal its frontier with Belarus and authorize military forces to destroy any balloons breaching its airspace, responding to four separate...
(MENAFN) Lithuania has announced plans to indefinitely close its border with Belarus and authorize the military to shoot down any balloons entering its airspace, after a series of aerial incursions disrupted air travel and border operations over...
(MENAFN) On Monday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene announced plans to indefinitely close the country’s border with Belarus and take immediate action against any balloons violating its airspace. This decision comes after four...
(MENAFN) Lithuania has announced plans to indefinitely close its border with Belarus and to authorize its military to shoot down balloons that enter its airspace, following a series of recent incursions, according to reports on Monday. Prime...
(MENAFN) Lithuania has accused Russia of briefly violating its airspace when two military aircraft crossed from the Kaliningrad region on Thursday evening. The incident occurred near the town of Kybartai, close to the border with Russia's...
(MENAFN) Lithuania took decisive action on Friday, closing its two largest airports and sealing its border crossings with Belarus after a third incident this month involving helium weather balloons entering Lithuanian airspace. The Vilnius and...
(MENAFN) Lithuania temporarily closed its two main airports and sealed its border crossings with Belarus on Friday after helium-filled weather balloons entered its airspace for the third time this month. Authorities confirmed that the Vilnius and...
Belarus has repeatedly launched such balloons, ostensibly to smuggle cigarettes across its border with Lithuania. The stunts have drawn international outrage and caused Lithuania to close its border with its unruly eastern neighbor for a month...
MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/. Vilnius International Airport is closed again for aircraft reception and release "due to unknown objects" in the airspace, a source in the airport's air traffic control service told TASS. "The airport is closed,...
GLOBAL Six months before the turn of the millennium, Donald Gerth, then president of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP), speaking at the 12th triennial meeting of the organisation founded in 1965, drew a distinction...
LTG Link and Stadler have unveiled the first new FLIRT electric train at the railway station in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Stadler believes that this marks “a new stage in the history of Lithuanian railways”, claiming that its trains will...
Responding to the Latvian parliament’s vote to leave the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, also known as the Istanbul Convention, Amnesty International’s Senior Campaigner on...
A delegation of representatives from Ukrainian defense enterprises, led by Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Defense Serhiy Boiev, held talks with the Lithuanian side on implementing joint projects in the defense industry. Following a working visit to...
Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė was on a familiarization visit to Latvia on Thursday, October 30th, which took in visits to the Saeima (parliament), talks with her Latvian counterpart, Evika Siliņa, and meetings with business...
16 Vilnius responded to the Lukashenko regime's hybrid attacks. The Lithuanian government has decided to close checkpoints Miadininkai (Kamenny Loh) and Šalčinkai (Beniakoni) on the border with Belarus for a month. As the LRT TV channel reported,...
VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania’s Vilnius airport temporarily closed on Thursday due to weather balloons flying in its vicinity, the airport said in a post on Facebook, the sixth such incident this month. Lithuania has said the balloons are sent by...
The government has submitted the draft Energy Economy Development Plan 2035 (ENMAK) to the Riigikogu for debate. The plan aims to guarantee energy security, increase Estonia's competitiveness and contribute to the transition to a clean energy...
