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Lithuanian recruits and Polish rotational troops who arrived in Lithuania earlier this month for training completed an exercise in a training ground in Pabradė on Thursday and Friday.

Seventy-one percent of Poles think that their country should defend the Baltic countries if they were attacked, according to a public opinion poll published by the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita.

In early October, the Estonian media reported that Russia was transporting, by ship, Iskander short-range ballistic missiles from Ust Luga (Leningrad Oblast) to the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad (ERR, October 7). This news sparked a wave of commentary by politicians and experts in the Baltic Sea reg...

The victory of Donald Trump of the Republicans in the United States presidential election should not change the country's relations with Lithuania, leaders of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union that won the recent parliamentary elections told BNS on the morning of November 9.

As the Baltic States continue to confront Russian air and naval power in the Baltic Sea, two small missile ships, the Zelenyy Dol and the Serpukhov entered this crowded body of water at the end of October. These Russian vessels will reportedly become part of a newly formed Baltic division in the nea...

Lithuania's draft 2017 budget projects higher revenue and expenses for next year, but is planned with a lower deficit than this year.

The Lithuanian Defenče Ministry declined on Friday to comment on Estonian media reports that Russia is transporting Iskander missiles to its Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad, but added that Russia's military maneuvers have been a cause for concern for some time now.

According to a government source known to ERR’s Estonian news portal, the Russian Baltic Fleet is moving an Iskander-M missile system from Ust-Luga to Kaliningrad on a civilian vessel, ERR News reported.

Conference to discuss Lithuanian and regional security challenges was held in Vilnius on October 19. Read the most interesting thoughts from the conference.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that a German general's statements about deploying the Patriot air defence systems in the Baltic states are a step in the right direction, but no official proposals had been received yet.

NATO General Salvatore Farina has said that dangerous Russian conduct in the Baltic Sea region was unlikely to lead to a large-scale military conflict.

Lithuania is set to be raised by €150 million in 2017 according to a draft of 2017-2019 state budgets developed by the Finance Ministry.

Lithuanian and foreign military analysts have been looking into hypothetical scenarios of a hybrid war breaking out in the Baltics for some time now - most of them envisage an attack from Russia, forgetting or simply ignoring the possibility of such an attack coming from Belarus.

The US should stop making defence promises which serve the interests of other nations rather than America, argues Doug Bandow, analyst of the libertarian Cato Institute, in commenting on Washington's recent announcement of a significant boost to its forces in Europe.

One cannot choose one's neighbours. We have been assigned ours by history and geography. Lithuania has not been dealt a good hand. Although historic threats from Germany have retreated, Russia remains a dangerous neighbour. Lithuania will be vulnerable until Russia undergoes a radical transformation...

Britain is sending five warships to Lithuania and the Baltics as part of an increased NATO presence in the region to act as a deterrent against Russia.