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As the winds of change sweep the global political landscape, there has never been a better opportunity to deepen Lithuania’s ties with the United States, especially in the realm of national security and defence.

Lithuania's new parliament intends to pass a resolution on November 15 on continuity of foreign, security and defence policies, which includes raising the defence funding to 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) by 2018.

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.