Recent News Headlines : Lithuania
BALTIC RAILROAD RIDDEN BY GRAHAM GREENE NEARS $5 BILLION REBIRTH
What EU financing will be in the next period, Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas told lawmakers Jan. 25 in Tallinn... READ MORE›
LITHUANIA TO BUILD FENCE ALONG KALININGRAD BORDER, FEARFUL OF RUSSIAN 'LITTLE GREEN MEN'
Kaliningrad, on the Baltic Sea, is the only Russian territory bordering Lithuania, whose eastern neighbor is Belarus... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP DODGES QUESTION ON HIS CAMPAIGN TEAM'S CONTACT WITH RUSSIA
Donald Trump dodges question on his campaign team's contact with Russia... READ MORE›
LITHUANIA BLOCKS DATA CENTER PLAN OVER RUSSIA HIJACK FEARS
In a public report last year, the Lithuanian VSD claimed that Russian hackers were one of the top threats to national security... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP CALLS MERYL STREEP A 'HILLARY FLUNKY' AFTER HER SCATHING GOLDEN GLOBE SPEECH
Donald Trump calls Meryl Streep a 'Hillary flunky' after her scathing Golden Globe speech... READ MORE›
U.S. SENATORS VISIT BALTICS TO REASSURE AHEAD OF TRUMP PRESIDENCY
McCain and Graham asked Trump to take a tough line against Russia over what they termed its military land grab in Ukraine... READ MORE›
US TO SHIP 1,600 TANKS TO DUTCH ARMS DEPOT IN 'CLEAR MESSAGE' TO RUSSIA
Russian officials, meanwhile, have consistently warned that aggressive NATO maneuvers near Russian territory could undermine regional security... READ MORE›
RUSSIA, PUTIN TESTING DONALD TRUMP ON NATO? US TROOPS TO HEAD TO EASTERN EUROPE IN JANUARY RUSSIA
Missile and troop buildup is expected along NATO's eastern border next year, ushering in the president-elect's first foreign policy test... READ MORE›
LITHUANIA URGES PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP TO UPHOLD US SECURITY COMMITMENT
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said Lithuania is on track to meet NATO's target of 2 per cent of GDP for military spending by 2018... READ MORE›
AP INTERVIEW: LITHUANIA: TRUMP RIGHT ON EUROPE DEFENSE COSTS
VILNIUS, Lithuania AP -- Two senior Lithuanian officials have told The Associated Press that President-elect Donald Trump is actually right that Europeans must increase military spending... READ MORE›
BALTIC WARNING OVER RUSSIAN MOVE ON NATO
Lithuania has warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin may test Nato in the weeks before Donald Trump becomes US president... READ MORE›
AS GLOBAL AXIS OF POWER SHIFTS, A COLD WIND BLOWS THROUGH THE BALTIC STATES
After 25 years of independence, Lithuania worries that Nato splits and US isolationism might open the door to Russian aggression... READ MORE›
WILL RUSSIA DECLARE WAR ON EUROPE? NORTHERN EUROPE, BALTICS CONCERNED OVER 'UNKNOWNS' OF TRUMP PRESIDENCY
Republican Donald Trump's victory has raised fears of America pulling out of the defence of the High North and Baltic Sea regions... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT BLASTS LITHUANIA FOR RESUMING CRIMINAL CASE INTO 1991 CLASHES
In mid-October, Lithuanian media reported that the Vilnius Regional Court had summoned former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev as a witness in the case... READ MORE›
TRUMP-PUTIN BROMANCE UNNERVES THE BALTICS: DAVID ANDELMAN
Valdis Zatlers, president of Latvia from 2007 through 2011, has dealt directly with Putin on numerous occasions, but listens carefully to the comments from Trump... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Lithuania
BRITAIN TO SEND HUNDREDS MORE TROOPS TO RUSSIA BORDER AS COLD WAR TENSION ESCALATES ACROSS EUROPE
Britain will send hundreds more troops close to Russia rsquo... READ MORE›
RUSSIA AND NATO 'ACTIVELY PREPARING FOR WAR'
The preparations include major military exercises by both Russia and Nato that appear designed exclusively to respond to one another's capabilities and potential war plans... READ MORE›
ANTI-EMIGRATION PARTY STORMS TO VICTORY IN LITHUANIA
Since 1990 we have lost about 800,000 people and for a small country this is a huge loss... READ MORE›
POORER THAN GREECE: THE EU COUNTRIES THAT REJECT A NEW ATHENS BAILOUT
In Latvia and Lithuania, pensioners and other poor people wonder why they are being asked to pay to bail out their far richer Greek counterparts... READ MORE›
RUSSIA MOVES NUCLEAR-CAPABLE MISSILES TO NATO DOORSTEP
Lithuania and Poland have expressed concerns as Russia confirmed the deployment of nuclear-capable Iskander missiles into its Kaliningrad outpost that borders the two NATO members... READ MORE›
RUSSIA WARNS DENMARK ITS WARSHIPS COULD BECOME NUCLEAR TARGETS
Germany, Poland, Lithuania, the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Denmark all border the Baltic Sea... READ MORE›
RUSSIA TRANSFERS NUCLEAR-CAPABLE MISSILES TO KALININGRAD
Lithuania, which neighbours Kaliningrad and is a member of Nato, said it would protest against the move... READ MORE›
RUSSIA THREATENS TO USE 'NUCLEAR FORCE' OVER CRIMEA AND THE BALTIC STATES
Russia threatens to use nuclear force over crimea and the baltic states... READ MORE›
THE PUTIN-TRUMP KISS BEING SHARED AROUND THE WORLD
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump are kissing on the side of a barbecue restaurant in Vilnius, Lithuania... READ MORE›
NATO TESTED BY RUSSIA RAISES ITS GUARD AND ITS TONE
NATO officials have been discussing whether to keep the batteries in Turkey, given Russia's actions, but Mr. Stoltenberg played down that possibility... READ MORE›
NATO RETURNS ITS ATTENTION TO AN OLD ADVERSARY RUSSIA
I don't think we're in the Cold War again... READ MORE›
RUSSIA SAYS WILL RETALIATE IF U.S. WEAPONS STATIONED ON ITS BORDERS
MOSCOW WARSAW A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia's border would be the most aggressive U.S... READ MORE›
LITHUANIA PREPARES FOR RUSSIAN INVASION AS NATO SENDS TROOPS TO EASTERN EUROPEAN STATES
More than two years after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, Lithuania is warning its citizens of a possible similar fate in the former Soviet Union republic... READ MORE›
RUSSIA 'WILL RETALIATE' IF NATO STORES HEAVY WEAPONS ON ITS DOORSTEP
Russia's response could include delivering missiles to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad between Poland and Lithuania... READ MORE›
NEAR RUSSIA'S BORDER WITH THE BALTICS, SOLDIERS ON BOTH SIDES ARE PRACTICING FOR WAR
Narva, an Estonian border city that is more than 80 percent Russian-speaking, is often depicted as Russia's first target if it were to move on the Baltics... READ MORE›
NORWAY TO RESTRUCTURE MILITARY IN RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN 'AGGRESSION'
They have not breached our territory and that is different from what is happening in the Baltic Sea area... READ MORE›
US FORTIFYING EUROPES EAST TO DETER PUTIN
Though Russia's military activity has quieted in eastern Ukraine in recent months, Moscow continues to maintain a presence there, working with pro-Russian local forces... READ MORE›
BELGIUM SHOWS OFF RUSSIAN PLANE INTERCEPTS
Four Belgian F-16s were based out of Amari Air Base in Estonia, a NATO member country, from January to April... READ MORE›
BRITISH TROOPS TO 'TRAIN SOLDIERS' IN UKRAINE
He added that the Government would be ready to give the BBC more funding to counter Russian-backed propaganda... READ MORE›
81-YEAR OLD WOMAN WHO SURVIVED LENINGRAD SIEGE DIES AFTER BEING ARRESTED FOR STEALING BUTTER
Elderly Russian woman dies after being arrested for stealing butter... READ MORE›
RESEARCHERS FIND TUNNEL DUG BY JEWISH PRISONERS TO ESCAPE NAZI DEATH SQUADS IN LITHUANIA
The tunnel was dug in 1944 by prisoners being held in a pit at the Ponary killing fields outside Vilnius, Lithuania... READ MORE›
ESCAPE TUNNEL DUG BY JEWS DURING NAZI ERA FOUND IN LITHUANIA
A Lithuanian archeologist discovered the tunnel entrance in 2004, and the museum called on the research team to search for the entire tunnel... READ MORE›
IT WAS A MISTAKE TO GAMBLE A CEASEFIRE FOR UKRAINE ON VLADIMIR PUTIN'S WORD OF HONOUR
It placed upon Vladimir Putin no clear timetable for the withdrawal of Russian forces within Ukraine no deadline, no means of verification... READ MORE›
HOW DID A UK BEATBOXER END UP HELPING RUN A BALTIC CAPITAL?
The 36-year-old has become the first foreigner to be elected to help run Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania... READ MORE›
VANDALS CENSOR IMAGE OF PUTIN SNOGGING TRUMP IN LITHUANIA
An image of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump engaged in a passionate embrace was apparently too much for some in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius... READ MORE›
LITHUANIA CLOSE TO READY TO ACCEPT HEAVY U.S. ARMS
Military equipment while talks continue with the United States on a permanent location for the arms Defense Minister Juozas Olekas told Reuters on Sunday... READ MORE›
ACCUSATIONS FLY AROUND RUSSIAA??S BALTIC DEPLOYMENTS AS TENSIONS ESCALATE
A handout photo shows one of the two supposed Russian SU-34 bombers being intercepted by Dutch F-16's over the Baltic sea... READ MORE›
RUSSIA CONDEMNS 'AGGRESSIVE' US PLAN FOR TANKS IN EASTERN EUROPE
Estonia has also allocated funds towards building barracks and extra military facilities for Nato troops and equipment... READ MORE›
RUSSIA BLASTS MICHAEL FALLON FOR GOING BEYOND 'DIPLOMATIC ETHICS'
The Defence Secretary said the Russian president may try to test Nato's resolve with the same Kremlin-backed subversion used in Crimea and eastern Ukraine... READ MORE›