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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda is convening on Monday morning a meeting of the State Defense Council to discuss tensions in the region over Russia's military buildup near Ukraine's borders.

Lithuania's parliamentary Committee on European Affairs has called on the government to step up pressure on Latvia over electricity trade with Russia amid suspicions that power generated by Belarus' Astravyets nuclear power station could be thus entering the Lithuanian market.

Moscow's call on Lithuania to review a new draft methodology for electricity trade between the three Baltic countries and Russia shows that the Baltic states are taking the right steps, Lithuanian Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas said.

Moscow has called on Lithuania to review a new draft methodology for electricity trade between the three Baltic countries and Russia that will lead to a sharp decrease in trade volumes after Belarus launches its Astravyets nuclear power plant, sources told BNS.

Russia’s version of America’s Operation Warp Speed vaccine project is located far from the Kremlin on a sleepy side street on the outskirts of Moscow.

The Lithuanian parliament adopted on Thursday a resolution calling on the international community to respond to the events in Belarus and prevent Russia from deciding the political course of the country.

Lithuanian customs officers on Friday detained a shipment of ready-to-use equipment for the oil and gas industry, meant for Russia, the Customs Department said.

Lithuania is calling on Russia to accept responsibility for the downing of Malaysia Airlines' flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday, the sixth-anniversary of the disaster that claimed 298 lives.

President Gitanas Nausėda will attend the European Council summit in Brussels on July 17. EU leaders will meet physically for the first time after the outbreak of the pandemic.

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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda on Friday appointed career diplomat Eitvydas Bajarunas the country's ambassador to Russia as of May 4, and Valdemaras Sarapinas was appointed the country's ambassador to Ukraine as of May 12.

The Lithuanian State Security Department (SSD) is monitoring the attempts to spread panic over COVID-19 and sees an increase in activity on the part of Russia aimed at misinforming the public, Darius Jauniskis, chief of the intelligence agency, said on Monday.

A ban for passenger cars to enter Lithuania from Belarus and Russia have come into force on midnight, and people will be able to enter from Latvia and Poland via two border checkpoints.

French President Emmanuel Macron's envoy for strategic dialogue with Russia is expected to come to Lithuania for consultations this month.

Lithuania has failed in its attempt to block Russia's powers at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

An "unprecedented" amount of substance believed to be paraffin wax has been washed up on beaches in the Lithuanian part of the Curonian Spit, an official said on Wednesday.

Pieces of a substance similar to paraffin wax that were found washed up on Lithuania's beaches last week apparently came from Russia's Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, the Environmental Protection Department said on Monday.