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    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      Belarus
      Belarus military exercises raise tensions in Poland and Lithuania

      Warsaw deploys more soldiers to border after Minsk begins drills to test lessons of Ukraine war

      Belarusian soldiers and Wagner fighters take part in a military drill near Belarus’s border with Poland
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Nato
      Germany plans ‘permanent’ force in Lithuania to strengthen Nato’s eastern flank

      Baltic states say turmoil in Russia heightens need to boost security

      Lithuanian defence minister Arvydas Anusauskas, Boris Pistorius, Jens Stolten with troops and military vehicles in the background
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Baltic States
      Nato urged to boost Baltic defences against Russian threat

      Lithuanian foreign minister says his country is ‘vulnerable’ as Moscow prepares to deploy nuclear weapons nearby

      Gabrielius Landsbergis
    • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      Chinese diplomat draws ire from Baltic nations over statehood remarks

      Beijing’s ambassador to France questioned legitimacy of countries formerly in the Soviet Union

      Lu Shaye
    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      The quick and easy guide for countries resisting Chinese trade coercion

      Australia and Lithuania have shown that finding new export markets is much faster than WTO litigation

      A Chinese woman drinking wine at an Australian winery
    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Oil & Gas industry
      Lithuanian energy group to consider donating share of profits to Ukraine

      Ignitis launches public appeal to more than 50 companies in US and Europe to follow suit

      An Ignitis charging station for electric vehicles in Vilnius, Lithuania
    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Letter from Vilnius — partying in the shadow of Putin

      The Russian threat hangs over the Lithuanian capital as its marks its 700th birthday with a year of culture

    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      Trade disputes
      EU challenges China at WTO over Lithuania trade embargo and tech patents

      Bloc asks global body to convene panels to rule on two trade disputes

      A container terminal in the Port of Klaipėda in Lithuania
    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Special Report
      Lithuania

      Once an unwilling part of the USSR, the Baltic state now asserts its independence as an outspoken critic of Russia and China. This report explores its geopolitical strengths and weaknesses, its thriving fintech scene — and its obsession with basketball

      Ingrida Šimonytė, prime minister of Lithuania
    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Special ReportEU energy
      Lithuania proves prescient on risk of Russian energy

      The country’s bet on LNG has paid off, but it still needs to generate more electricity

      Navy personnel raise the Lithuanian flag as the Independence LNG facility moves into position in 2014
    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Special ReportRetail & Consumer industry
      Vinted thrives as shoppers turn to second-hand fashion

      Lithuania’s first unicorn stands to benefit from worries about waste and the cost of living

      Thomas Plantenga, CEO of Vinted
    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Special ReportSport
      Hoops and glory: why basketball is Lithuania’s ‘second religion’

      After the country’s annexation by the USSR, the sport provided a channel for nationalist dissent

      Basketball team Žalgiris in action against Emporio Armani Milan in Kaunas, November 2022
    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Special ReportPhotography
      In pictures: a snapshot of Lithuanian photography

      A tradition of mutual support has helped give the Baltic state’s photographers global stature

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Special ReportFintech
      Lithuania makes push to become Europe’s fintech hub

      User-friendly regulation is attracting start-ups, though the UK’s lead will be hard to match

      Pavel Sokolovas, co-founder of payments provider Kevin
    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Special ReportGeopolitics
      Suwałki Gap fears recede as Nato rethinks strategy

      Change in defence plan prompted by Ukraine war may mean the Poland-Lithuania border is less critical than once assumed

      Border guard Saulius Motukas stands at the crossing between Poland and Lithuania
    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Special ReportGeopolitics
      Hard line on China rattles Lithuania’s allies

      With its warnings on Russia vindicated, the Baltic state is tilting at Beijing

      Portrait of Ingrida Šimonytė, prime minister of Lithuania
    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Nato
      Turkish delay over Nato bids threatens Baltics’ security, warns Lithuania

      Baltic state’s foreign minister tells Turkish counterpart swift approval of Sweden and Finland’s membership will boost regional stability

      Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuanian foreign minister
    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
      Europe Express
      EU gas price cap ‘agreement’ starts unravelling Premium content

      Some capitals want to block other energy measures until cap details are tabled

      Estonia’s premier Kaja Kallas speaks to Latvia’s PM Krisjanis Karins,  president of the European Council Charles Michel, Austria’s federal chancellor Karl Nehammer and Belgium’s PM Alexander De Croo before a meeting on the second day of a EU leaders summit at the European Council Building in Brussels
    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      MK Čiurlionis at Dulwich Picture Gallery: a spotlight on a Lithuanian artist-hero

      Exploring nature and pagan mythology, he receives his first UK retrospective more than a century after his death

    • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      EU rips up Russia visa deal in victory for eastern member states

      Move in response to border countries’ security concerns met with caution from US officials

      Mateusz Morawiecki, Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, Kaja Kallas and Mette Frederiksen talk to media in Denmark
    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
      News in-depth
      ‘It used to feel nice here’: Russian threats stoke tensions on Lithuania’s borders

      Dispute over enforcement of EU sanctions around Kaliningrad has added to anxieties over Putin’s war

      Protesters in support of Ukraine in Vilnius, Lithuania
    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      EU aims to de-escalate tensions over Russian trade to Kaliningrad

      Bans on steel and cement will be enforced but lawful goods allowed through Lithuania, says Josep Borrell

      A freight train from the exclave of Kaliningrad moves through the Russian-Lithuanian border station of Kybartai
    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Russia warns Lithuania of serious consequences over Kaliningrad rail ‘blockade’

      Close confidant of Putin says Moscow’s measures would have ‘serious negative influence’ on Lithuanian population

      The city centre of Kaliningrad
    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Russia threatens retaliation against Lithuania following rail ‘blockade’

      Baltic state halts transport via train of Russian goods under EU sanctions to exclave of Kaliningrad

      Vilnius train station in Lithuania where transit trains from Moscow to Kaliningrad make a stopover
    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      EU defence
      Germany plans to base extra Nato troops at home rather than Lithuania

      Berlin proposes 3,500-strong brigade for its own soil, which could be quickly deployed to Baltics if necessary

      German members of Nato’s Lithuania battle group
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