From December 9, two Lithuanian border guards will help patrol the border between Bulgaria and Turkey, two more will patrol with a service SUV along the Hungary–Serbia border.
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Chief foreign policy advisor to the Lithuanian president Renaldas Vaisbrodas says Turkey had every right to shoot down a military jet which violated its airspace.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the EU-Turkey summit in Brussels where Turkey was represented by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The summit was held to discuss the flow of Syrian refugees crossing Turkey, the press service of the president said.
NATO has shown that its members will not tolerate violations of their airspace territorial integrity, Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius said to the Žinių Radijas radio.
When Turkey shot down a Russian military aircraft on Tuesday, Moscow's response was quick: not only did it confirm the fact that it was a Russian plane, but also started spitting angry statements that the Turkish move was "dangerous escalation".
In the previous articles of the series ‘Putin’s Russia: Kremlin’s Goals and Tools’, I analysed the theory and practice of Russia’s foreign policy and drew attention to the fact that Russia still uses the ammunition of USSR KGB – disinformation, influence agents, scandals (e.g., Edward Snowden's stor...
On 10 November, the European Commission (EC) adopted its annual Enlargement package - a set of documents explaining its policy on EU enlargement. In the set of annual reports, the EC has assessed where Turkey and the countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugo...
As Lithuania fails to find refugees wishing to move here from Italy and Greece, 70 Iraqi refugees could be resettled to Lithuania from Turkey.
Rusijos užsienio reikalų ministerija pirmadienį apkaltino Prancūziją, kad šios karo lėktuvas pavojingai priartėjo prie rusų keleivinio lėktuvo, kuriuo skrido oficiali parlamentarų delegacija; incidentas įvyko Prancūzijos oro erdvėje.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending a European Council meeting to discuss the refugee crisis, says that economic migrants should be separated from genuine war-fleeing refugees and the latter are not supposed to be picky which safe country to go to.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has strongly condemned the terrorist attack carried out against peaceful protesters in Ankara on Saturday.
Vytautas Landsbergis, the patriarch of Lithuanian politics known for his tough anti-Russian stance, is uncompromisingly critical of how NATO countries have responded to Russia's recent incursions into Turkey's airspace.
Discussions about the refugee crisis and how to solve it has moved from the European Union to the United Nations General Assembly, where most national leaders spoke about settling the conflicts in Syria and Iraq and fighting international terrorism. Among the highlights were the speeches and meeting...
On Tuesday, the European Union's (EU) interior ministers accepted a plan to redistribute 160,000 refugees that had come to Europe. Similar talks one week earlier failed, because several Central-Eastern European countries opposed the scheme. Lithuania has already committed itself to accepting 1,105 r...
The Government of Lithuania is currently not considering accepting more refugees than 325 it has committed to, although it does not discount such a possibility, the country's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says.
Five Lithuanian tourists incurred minor injuries after a bus tipped over in Turkey, Kęstutis Vaškelevičius, the Lithuanian foreign minister's spokesman, told BNS on Friday.
Nesėkmę Tarptautinės teniso federacijos (ITF) vyrų teniso turnyro „Trofeul Municipiului Bacau“ Rumunijoje vienetų varžybų aštuntfinalytje patyrė 20-metis Lukas Mugevičius.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed two decrees on appointment of new Lithuanian ambassadors to Georgia and Turkey.
Tarptautinės teniso federacijos (ITF) vyrų teniso turnyro Turkijoje (Turkey F20 Futures) dvejetų varžybose trečią pergalę iš eilės iškovojo Julius Tverijonas poroje su 26-erių metų Bolivijos tenisininku Federico Zeballosu.
Tarptautinės teniso federacijos (ITF) vyrų teniso turnyro Turkijoje (Turkey F20 Futures) dvejetų varžybose antrą pergalę iškovojo Julius Tverijonas poroje su 26-erių metų Bolivijos tenisininku Federico Zeballosu.
