Belarus

The Ministry of Agriculture said Monday it is tightening control of grain imports from Russia and other higher risk countries. The new measures will also apply to the products in transit through the port of Klaipėda.

Fewer Belarusians arrived in Lithuania in recent months and one of the reasons behind this is tighter restrictions and changing priorities of Lithuanian employers, says Director of the Migration Department Evelina Gudzinskaitė.

Latvian law enforcement has detained a person who allegedly defaced a monument to post-war partisan leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in Merkinė with red paint at the end of January, TV3 TV reported on Wednesday evening.

Border guards stopped two foreign nationals trying to access Lithuania unlawfully from Belarus over the past day, the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) reports.

За длинные выходные литовская полиция задержала немало нетрезвых водителей. В пятницу-субботу попались 27, а в воскресенье 3 нетрезвых водителя. Всем им грозит уголовная ответственность.

Border guards stopped two foreign nationals trying to access Lithuania unlawfully from Belarus over the past day, the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) reports.

Four foreign nationals were turned away after trying to access Lithuania unlawfully from Belarus over the past day, the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) reports.

The National Security Commission on Tuesday proposed the Government to close two more border checkpoints with Belarus at Lavoriškės and Raigardas, banning movement of pedestrians, cyclists, other vehicles and goods as of 1 March.

Almost a third of Lithuanian residents support the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow individual Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in the Paris Olympics as neutrals, a poll commissioned by the LRT public broadcaster finds.

On Monday, 22 January, three Belarusian border officers violated the Lithuanian border and entered the country’s territory in Ignalina district, the State Border Guard Service of Lithuania (VSAT) reported Tuesday.

The numbers of irregular migrants trying to cross into Lithuania may rise again in the spring, as the geopolitical situation remains unchanged, says the head of the State Border Guard Service (VSAT).

On Wednesday night, in Vilnius train station, two Belarusians got off the transit train travelling from Kaliningrad to Saint Petersburg via Lithuania and Belarus.

Praėjusią savaitę Šiaulių apskrities policijos pareigūnai sulaikė 14 neblaivių vairuotojų, 4 iš jų sukėlė avarijas. Policijos atstovai dalijasi pasakojimu apie keistas girtų vairuotojų istorijas.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis argues that the State Security Department (VSD) has been given a disproportionate assignment to screen every Belarusian citizen who enters Lithuania.

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Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė believes that discussions are needed before deciding whether identical sanctions should apply on Belarusian and Russian citizens. According to her, potential political and economic ramifications should be considered.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis said in a recent interview to the news agency ELTA that Lithuania should reconsider its national security concepts. Commenting about this on Tuesday, the Conservative leader told reporters that Russia has been recovering and is accumulating resource...

Lithuanian border guards prevented 45 irregular migrants from accessing the country via Belarus in the last three days.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis believes that Lithuania should continue engaging with the European Union striving for tougher sanctions against Russia and Belarus. Lithuanian Railways (LTG) addressed law enforcement on Tuesday after it transpired that luxurious cars were being exp...

The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has forwarded a diplomatic note to the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the note, Lithuania urged Belarus to follow international requirements and standards and to immediately address the environmental, nuclear and radiation safety issues at the B...