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Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius possibly thinks he is not a member of the government, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said in response to the minister's scepticism about his idea of reinstating the intergovernmental task force with Russia.

The Lithuanian government supports a proposal to ban by law the sale of goods designed to promote war and a positive attitude toward aggression against other states.

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office announced on Tuesday that the Migration Department did not disclose classified information to judges of the Russian Constitutional Court who were banned from entering Lithuania due to annexation of Crimea.

After Lithuania's Armed Forces and Norway's Kongsberg signed a contract on acquisition of medium-range anti-missile defense systems NASAMS last Thursday, BNS Lithuania provides a list of five biggest army acquisitions after the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia.

Catalonia cannot be compared with challenged and occupied areas in the Baltic states and Ukraine.

The Lithuanian Migration Department decided last week not to extend the residence permit of Anton Treushnikov, an advisor to the council of a bank linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the department's director has confirmed to Laisvės TV.

Lithuania's Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas has instructed the ministry's Corruption Prevention and Internal Investigations Division to scrutinize the circumstances of a possible leak of information from the Migration Department to third parties.

President Dalia Grybauskaite met with United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres as part of her visit in New York and discussed the Zapad military exercise currently held in Russia and Belarus.

Lithuania has been reproached for not inviting representatives of the Russian Constitutional Court to a global constitutional justice congress that got underway in Vilnius on Tuesday.

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, on Friday visited a checkpoint on the administrative boundary line between Ukraine's southern Kherson region and Crimea, which was annexed by Russia more than three years ago.

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, on Friday will visit Ukraine's Kherson region just north of the border with Crimea.

A new iron curtain is descending over Europe as Russia retains its influence in some post-Soviet countries, Ukraine's former President Viktor Yushchenko said in Vilnius on Tuesday.