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Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has pledged to seek ways to repeat the vote in the impeachment of MP Mindaugas Bastys that came a few votes short on Tuesday.

Officers of the Lithuanian State Security Department were satisfied with a verbal answer from impeached MP Mindaugas Bastys about his acquaintance with Piotr Voyeiko, a former KGB agent, therefore, no further probe was conducted, says the MP's lawyer.

Lithuania's parliament Tuesday came a few votes short of revoking the mandate of MP Mindaugas Bastys for gross violation of the Constitution and his oath of office.

Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Bastys breached his oath of office and committed a gross violation of the Constitution by concealing his ties with former KGB agent Piotr Voyeiko, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday.

Lithuania's Constitutional Court on Tuesday completed hearing in MP Mindaugas Bastys' impeachment case over his alleged ties with people working for the benefit of Russia, pledging to provide a conclusion by the end of 2017.

The Lithuanian Constitutional Court began on Tuesday a public hearing on MP Mindaugas Bastys' impeachment case.

Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's National Security and Defense Committee, is initiating a parliamentary probe of the ties between Lithuanian politicians and Russian nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, Lithuanian business influence upon political decisions and harmful investmen...