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Lithuania must reconsider its security concept as soon as possible in response to dramatic developments in the international arena, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis. The global structure created after the Cold War is crumbling right in our very eyes and yet Lithuania still avo...

More than 140 companies owned by Lithuanians are listed in the Russian State Register of Legal Entities, the business daily Verslo žinios reports.

Евросоюз хочет принять участие в переговорах между США и Россией по деэскалации напряженности на российско-украинской границе и вопросам безопасности. "Мы не хотим и не можем себе позволить себе быть посторонними зрителями, через голову которых принимаются решения", - заявил верховный представитель ...

Nagorno-Karabakh—The Russian soldiers were in no mood to talk. At the bottom of a winding mountain road, where less than a week earlier Armenian and Azerbaijani forces had been locked in fierce combat, the squad had arrived earlier that morning to set up a new checkpoint on the outskirts of Nagorno-...

A Slovak state company will repair Lithuanian army helicopters for 6 million euros after it signed a contract with a Russian military business group, Lithuania's national radio LRT reports.

With Dalia Grybauskaite having ended her second term as Lithuanian president, here is a look at her behind-the-scenes foreign policy activities.

Vladimir Stefanov, a businessman from Lithuania's Klaipeda, is a financial donor of a Russian Armed Force's Orthodox cathedral under construction near Moscow, the 15min.lt news website reports.

Неофициальная "группа друзей Грузии" в ОБСЕ опубликовала заявление к "10-летию российского военного вторжения в Грузию".

The deployment of American tanks and fighting vehicles to Central and Eastern Europe is a proportionate response to Russia's aggressive actions toward the Baltic countries and NATO as a whole, a high-raking NATO official, on a visit to Lithuania, said.

The Tuesday's searches of the offices of the state railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) are part of nearly a year-long international investigation, Financial Crime Investigation Service (FCIS) says.

With the NATO summit in Warsaw coming up in July, the rhetoric in many Western quarters is becoming shriller about the need to contain Russian aggression.

Does the international perception of Russia as an expansionist and warmongering country sit well with the mood of Russia's population?

Every year, Estonia holds special military exercises called Spring Storm. The exercises are for those conscript soldiers who have just completed their term of service. This is their graduation event.

Vladimir Putin’s decision to pardon Nadezhda Savchenko was a purely pragmatic one. Left with no viable alternatives to freeing the Ukrainian pilot, Putin was forced to make a concession that may not sit well with the Russian population, which has come to see Savchenko as a symbol of the “Kiev junta....

When NATO leaders gather in Warsaw on July 8 to 9, they will announce steps to beef up the alliance’s conventional force presence on its eastern flank. NATO also will shortly announce that the SM-3 missile defense site in Romania has achieved operational status. These moves will spur the Kremlin, wi...

NATO's rapid response force is not ready to be used to counter a possible Russian attack in the Baltics and Poland, according to two alliance commanders speaking to the Financial Times.

Economic reform is central for today’s Ukraine. The capacity of the Ukrainian nation—leadership and population together—to deliver a modern and efficient economy, if achieved, would constitute the winning asset in the West’s current struggle with Russia in Eastern Europe.

NATO air policing fighters stationed in the Baltic States performed five scrambles last week to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence has reported.

Despite fears that Russian forces could have landed on Lithuanian soil through the Curonian Spit the threat of Russian agents or forces penetrating Lithuania by train is real, according to the head of Lithuania‘s border guard service.

NATO fighter jets serving in the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic countries were scrambled three times last week to intercept Russian military aircraft, including bombers, flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said on Monday.