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Russian authorities have included Kamilė Šeraitė, adviser to Lithuania’s National Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas, in the list of wanted persons, public broadcaster LRT reports citing Russian media.

A new draft law giving immunity to former presidents and their families has rekindled speculation about Vladimir Putin’s future, months after he pushed through constitutional changes that could allow him to stay in office through 2036.

Two Lithuanians and a Norwegian were returned to Lithuania on Friday as part of a spy swap with Russia, the Lithuanian president's office said.

The Court of Appeal of Lithuania on Tuesday softened the punishment for two former troops found guilty of spying for Russia.

Georgia's parliament has called on the Lithuanian Seimas to end its ties with the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy.

Lithuania's Justice Minister Elvinas Jankevicius on Thursday introduced the chairman of the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs to the high-profile January 13 case, and also informed about the prosecution of the case's investigators and judges, launched by Ru...

“Foreign politicians accuse Russia of meddling in elections and referendums around the world. In reality, everything is more serious. Russia is meddling with people’s minds and those same people do not know what to do with their altered consciousness”, - writes the creator of Putinism ideology and t...

Vygaudas Ušackas, a former EU ambassador to Moscow, says he does not think Russia poses a direct military threat to the Baltic countries.

Specific and motivated legal solutions against ride-sharing company Yandex.Taxi are being looked for, but that's not a strategic company which can be subject to certain restrictions, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.

Lithuania's State Security Department recommends people who might be of interest to Russian special services not to use the Yandex.Taxi ride-sharing app.

Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has turned to Lithuanian's Competition Council, asking for an investigation into whether Yandex.Taxi advertising does not run counter to the country's laws and does not mislead consumers.

The Russian presidential election will take place in a month, but the winner is already clear. The only candidate capable of receiving wider support from voters, Alexey Navalny, has been banned from registering as a candidate due to his criminal record, stemming from a fraud conviction he views as i...

Lithuania's parliament has merely one ballot left until adoption of the so-called Magnitsky Act, which would ban entry to foreigners involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering or human rights violations.

Lithuanian authorities who have detained a drunk Russian border guards have received conflicting calls from Russia to free the young man – a Russian border general initially said the man was an unemployed handicapped man, however, later admitted he was employed with the Russian border service, accor...

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.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday restated support to the new sanctions taken by the United States against Russia.

Lithuania's defense officials say they are keeping a close eye on the joint Russian-Chinese military exercise gaining momentum in the Baltic Sea.