3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (193+ words) Poland would be the first to help if the Baltic states were attacked, the country’s Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Thursday. “I, if I were defence minister at the time, would direct a request to the government, to the…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (259+ words) The board of Lithuania’s electricity distribution operator ESO will consider Thursday whether to dismiss CEO Renaldas Radvila, nearly three weeks after a powerful storm disrupted power supplies across the country and prompted calls for the company’s leadership to take responsibility…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (177+ words) US President Donald Trump’s special envoy John Coale, who is planning to visit Belarus in the near future, may also travel to Vilnius, Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius said Thursday. Coale is expected to visit Minsk for talks that could…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (429+ words) Researchers studying the walls and underground spaces of Vilnius Cathedral say they have identified about 20 previously unexplored and undocumented cavities, including one that will be examined in October to test a controversial theory that the remains of Lithuania’s Grand Duke…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (529+ words) EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday she hoped US negotiators who visited Kyiv over the weekend had seen for themselves that Russia is not genuinely interested in ending its war against Ukraine. “I’m happy to see that for…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (513+ words) The UN General Assembly has approved a new world map designed to more accurately depict the relative size of the world’s continents, enlarging Africa while reducing the apparent size of North America and Europe. Lithuania was in a minority of…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (512+ words) EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday she hoped US negotiators who visited Kyiv over the weekend had seen for themselves that Russia is not genuinely interested in ending its war against Ukraine. “I’m happy to see that for…...

1+ week, 50+ min ago   (465+ words) Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda on Monday described the strong showing by Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, in a state election as disappointing and said the growing strength of populist forces was a cause for concern. “I view…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (340+ words) Lithuania’s agriculture minister has ordered checks on the origin of all grain transported from Russia and Belarus through the country to prevent the possible transit of grain stolen from Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, the Agriculture Ministry said. Agriculture Minister Kęstutis…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (363+ words) The severe storm that swept across Lithuania last month is likely to go down in the country’s weather history, according to Donatas Valiukas, head of the Climate and Research Division at Lithuania’s Hydrometeorological Service. While powerful storms are relatively uncommon…...