Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have on Friday agreed to expand the existing sanctions for the Belarusian regime's officials and blacklisted the country's information and sports ministers and police officers.
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Moscow has called on Lithuania to review a new draft methodology for electricity trade between the three Baltic countries and Russia that will lead to a sharp decrease in trade volumes after Belarus launches its Astravyets nuclear power plant, sources told BNS.
The Nordic and Baltic countries at the Human Rights Council on Wednesday slammed the persecution of persons cooperating with the United Nations, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Friday expanded sanctions against Belarusian regime officials responsible for vote-rigging and violence against peaceful protesters.
Lithuania has to date granted entry to 205 Belarusian nationals for special humanitarian reasons, including 54 who are already in the country, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
Statements by Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia "matter less and less" to Belarus, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry's spokesman said on Monday after the three Baltic states imposed entry bans on President Alexander Lukashenko and 29 other high-ranking officials.
The Baltic states' joint boycott of electricity from the Astravyets nuclear power plant will cost Belarus "hundreds of millions of euros" in lost revenue annually, Lithuanian Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas has said.
Lithuania extended on Wednesday border controls at international airports and the seaport of Klaipeda until August 14.
EU leaders on Tuesday struck a deal on an economic recovery plan and the bloc's next long-term budget after four days of intense negotiations.
Travelers may have to self-isolate on return to Lithuania even if they travel to a country that is not on the coronavirus "blacklist", Lithuania's chief epidemiologist warned on Monday.
The possible deployment of more US troops to Poland will serve the security interests of the entire region, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Wednesday.
The Debunk EU analysis of COVID-19 related disinformation in three Baltic countries in May revealed that more than a half of this kind of news was published in Latvia (59%). Almost one third of them (28%) was recorded in Lithuania, and less than 13% in Estonia. A total of 265 cases were detected per...
Relaxation of lockdown restrictions and the reopening of borders between the Baltic States have triggered a spike in traveling across the countries, Rustamas Liubajevas, chief of Lithuania's State Border Guard Service (SBGS), has said.
Latvia's Air Baltic announced that it would relaunch direct flights from Vilnius to Tallinn on May 25.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says a fake letter sent out in his name to announce alleged withdrawal of allied troops from Lithuania was aimed at sowing confusion and undermining the unity of NATO allies by capitalizing on the COVID-19 crisis.
In the context of an emerging conflict between the so-called old Europe and the United States, Western European leaders are actively promoting the new geopolitical axis of Lisbon-Vladivostok which leaves behind the interests of Eastern European countries. An alternative to this project that should e...
The Nordic and Baltic countries have possibilities to expand their cooperation in the area of security and defense but the initiative should come from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, a Swedish lawmaker heading the Nordic Council, says.
What is this girl thinking after 30 years? This was the question asked in the Russian newspaper "Komsomolskaja Pravda" together with a published photo of a girl in 1990 April during the protest for Lithuanian independence. Both the Baltic Way and independence of Baltic countries still irritate Kreml...
A comprehensive action plan for the planned synchronization of Lithuania's electricity system with that of Continental Europe has been submitted to the Cabinet for discussion, the Energy Ministry said on Thursday.
Lithuanian MP Irina Rozova says the State Security Department (VSD) did not warn her against attending an event of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) that sparked protests in Georgia in June.
