Russian Federation

The Lithuanian man who abducted his daughter and fled to the Kaliningrad region has been released after being detained on Sunday by Russian officers, the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) reports.

A man who kidnapped his daughter and fled to the Kaliningrad region on Sunday is allegedly a citizen of Russia, says the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC).

On 27 August, a father kidnapped a one-year-old daughter from a mother in Lithuania and crossed a river in a rubber boat to Russia’s Kaliningrad region, where both he and the toddler were detained.

Speaking at the International Crimea Platform Summit in Kyiv on Wednesday, President Gitanas Nausėda emphasised that the consequences of Russia’s illegal occupation and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula are still painfully felt today and that lasting peace is impossible without the return of contr...

In order to enhance border security and tackle cigarette smuggling, Lithuania temporarily closed two of its checkpoints on the border with Belarus starting Friday, leaving four operational. The interior minister has revealed that security threats are being analysed and under certain conditions Lithu...

At the initiative of Estonia’s Minister of Justice Kalle Laanet (Reform), though not via a draft prepared by Ministry of Justice staff, the right to vote in local elections in Estonia would be stripped from citizens of a foreign country recognised as an aggressor state, reports public broadcaster ER...

On Thursday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Suwałki to discuss the security situation on the border, the threats posed by the presence of the Wagner group in Belarus, the likelihood of provocations and the readiness to counter them, the presidency repo...

On 24-30 July, fighter aircraft conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic States were scrambled three times to identify and escort aircraft of the Russian Federation flying in violation of flight rules in international airspace over the Baltic Sea and once to patrol the airspace border ...

The overnight Russian air attacks on the port of Odessa left some 60 thousand tonnes of grain destroyed, most of which was intended for China, says the chair of the Seimas security committee.

The Seimas security committee chair appealed on Tuesday to the prosecutor general asking to prosecute Russian propagandists Vladimir Solovyov and Anton Krasovsky for war crimes and crimes against humanity under universal jurisdiction.

Lithuania has blacklisted 15 law enforcement officers of the Russian Federation responsible for the persecution of Russia’s opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Foreign Ministry reports.

Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs took part in the official handover ceremony for the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Reykjavík, the capital city of Iceland, on Wednesday, the ministry reports.

Издание «РуБалтик» опять распространяет дезинформацию – на этот раз журналист пропагандистского ресурса прокомментировал Стамбульские соглашения по зерну, подписанные 22 июня этого года между Украиной и Турцией с ООН и Россией и Турцией с ООН. Автор статьи утверждает, что ООН признала за Россией пол...

Член так называемой “Военно-гражданской администрации Запорожской области” Владимир Рогов утверждает, что в седьмом пакете антироссийских санкций чиновники Европейского Союза де-факто признали территорию Запорожской области частью России.

Vilnius Regional Administrative Court will on Monday start hearing an appeal filed by Russian performer Philipp Kirkorov against the migration authority's January 19 decision to ban him from entering Lithuania for five years.

On 3 July, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania handed over a verbal note to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Vilnius in response to information that had appeared in the public domain regarding serious environmental violations on the D-6 offshore platform on the continental shelf of ...

Lithuania's media watchdog, the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (LRTK), is considering following Latvia’s suit in banning TV channels of RT group controlled by Russia’s state but the decision will only be taken after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes its opinion on the applicati...

On June 18 a representative of the Embassy of the Russian Federation was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania to express profound concern about the recent legislative initiative of State Duma deputy A. Zhuravlev to revoke USSR Supreme Council Resolution of 24 Dece...

President Gitanas Nausėda presented credentials to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Russian Federation Eitvydas Bajarūnas.

Lithuanian Justice Minister Elvinas Jankevicius has called on the European Union to improve its existing legislation or to adopt new legal acts to ensure that the bloc's citizens are protected from political prosecution by third countries.