Baltic Sea

More and more tourists find Baltic countries appealing when they are choosing their new destinations. Lithuania sees the growing number of foreigners that are interested in seeing not only the capital of the country Vilnius but also the beauty of the rest of Lithuania.

Plans to build an 800-million-euro outer port in Melnragė, a seaside neighborhood of Klaipėda, have come under increasing criticism from local residents, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Tuesday.

After Poland has closed beaches along its Baltic Sea coast due to a toxic algae bloom, experts say that that there is no such risk in Lithuania.

Lithuanian airspace must be respected, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said on Monday after two Russian military aircraft last week entered the country's territory over its territorial waters.

Lithuania's defense officials say they are keeping a close eye on the joint Russian-Chinese military exercise gaining momentum in the Baltic Sea.

NATO will closely follow Russia's military exercises near the Baltic countries' borders, including its joint drills with Belarus and China, the Alliance's secretary general said in Lithuania on Tuesday.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is coming to Latvia and Lithuania next week.

Lithuanian law-enforcement officials have suspended their pre-trial investigation into the hacking of the system of the Baltic News Service's Vilnius bureau, saying that they are unable, at least for now, to track down the hacker, who used a system that ensures anonymity of the user.

Fighter-jets serving in the NATO air-policing mission were last week scrambled once from Lithuania to intercept Russian warplanes flying in the international airspace above the Baltic Sea.

President Dalia Grybauskaite has promised to help Ukraine to block initiatives for expanding the Nord Stream gas pipeline linking Russia with Germany as Brussels prepares to open talks with Moscow.

NATO fighter-jets serving in the Baltic air-policing mission were last week scrambled six times from Lithuania over Russian warplanes flying above the Baltic Sea.

The 18-hour search for a fisherman reported missing in the Baltic Sea was terminated in Lithuania on Sunday evening.

Russian military ships and aircraft, which have become more active in the Baltic Sea recently, pose no threat to civilians, Russia's embassy in Vilnius said on Thursday, a day after Lithuania handed a diplomatic note to the ambassador.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday handed a diplomatic note to Russia's ambassador in Vilnius, Alexander Udaltsov, over incidents in Lithuania's exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea.

Praėjusį savaitgalį Virumaa (Estijoje) įvyko baigiamasis šio sezono „Prodiscus Baltic Sea Tour 2016“ varžybų etapas. Absoliutaus turo nugalėtojo vardą atvirame divizione po metų pertraukos susigrąžino Gabrielius Gricius iš Vilniaus diskgolfo klubo (VDGK), atstovaujantis „Prodigy Europe“ ir „DiscCity...

Latvia is ready to continue talks with Lithuania on the maritime border, the neighbouring country's Foreign Ministry has said.

Lithuania remained pagan until the late Middle Ages and, as such, was an object of curiosity as well as hostility for Christian Europe. Paganism, wrote thirteenth-century Franciscan scholar Bartholomew the Englishman, was "ritus mirabilis". Christian scholars who described pagan rituals did not shy ...

Fighter jets serving in the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states were scrambled once last week to identify and accompany a Russian warplane flying in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence.

A recent incident near an oil terminal owned by the Polish company Orlen has drawn attention to security at the facility which is a vital part of Lithuania's energy infrastructure. If the company cannot protect it, the Lithuanian state may have to step in, the interior minister has commented. To rea...