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Belarus says that it is open to cooperation with the European Union on its nuclear power plant, a project that Lithuania says is unsafe.

The Lithuanian Liberal Movement will not be eliminated and will continue operations, with the new leader to be elected in congress, not by way of direct election, the embattled party's council decided in Vilnius on Saturday.

MP Eugenijus Gentvilas will act as caretaker leader of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement after resignation of Remigijus Šimašius.

Lithuanian residents mainly want to vote for Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis in the 2019 presidential race, followed by economist Gitanas Nausėda and Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis, shows the latest poll conducted for BNS Lithuania news agency by RAIT pollster.

Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius, the leader of the embattled Lithuanian Liberal Movement, is considering his future in the party post after MEP Petras Auštrevičius, MP Vitalijus Gailius and Marcijonas Urmonas resigned from his deputies earlier on Thursday.

Lithuanian voters would cast most votes for Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, SEB bank president's adviser Gitanas Nausėda and Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis in presidential elections, shows an opinion poll published on delfi.lt news portal on Monday.

Nearly 60 members of the European Parliament have signed an address to Russia's top officials with a demand to lift fraud charges for famous Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov and remove the freedom restrictions he is subjected to.

Making predictions about the 2019 presidential elections today is like trying to predict the end of the seventh season of Game of Thrones just as the first season begins. However perhaps the competing “families” are already visible, former political advisor to MP Andrius Kubilius and the Conservativ...

Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili said in Vilnius on Tuesday he would not apply for Lithuanian citizenship, thanking the country's politicians for the proposition.

Belarusian officials have decided to refuse entry to a handful of members of the European Parliament (EP) who wanted to look at the construction of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Lithuanian MEP Petras Auštrevičius said.

Lithuanian MEPs Laima Andrikienė and Algirdas Saudargas, both members of the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, were included in a list of EU politicians banned from entering Russia, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius confirmed to BNS on Monday.

Lithuanian member of the European Parliament Petras Auštrevičius is sheltering a refugee family from Iraq for half a year, Lietuvos Žinios daily reports.