Lithuanian FM Joins EU Foreign Affairs Council Today

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 23. Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kęstutis Budrys is participating today in the meeting of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) in Brussels, Trend reports. Together with...

Georgia's Humanitarian Situation Is Deteriorating - Lithuanian Foreign Minister

The EU Foreign Affairs Council will also discuss the Georgia issue today, as Kęstutis Budrys, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, stated at the doorstep before the FAC taking place on 23 June 2025 in Brussels. “A point on today’s agenda is...

Ignitis to supply electricity to Lithuanian TSO for 7 years

An energy solutions company, Ignitis, and the Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator (TSO), Litgrid, signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) worth 82.3 million euros. Under the agreement, Litgrid will buy up to 160 gigawatt-hour (GWh)...

Lithuanian Foreign Minister: No Reason To Ease Sanctions For Belarus

1 Kęstutis Budrys Photo: J. Stackevicius / LRT Until all political prisoners are released. After more than a dozen political prisoners were released in Belarus over the weekend, including Sergei Tikhanovsky, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kiastutis...

Lithuania Detected And Added Another Shakutin Company To The National Sanctions List

Alexander Shakutin The blacklist could expand. This year, the interests of Minsk and Vilnius converge in what is "pushing" Alexander Shakutin. In April, the Belarusian authorities took away his holding Amkodor, and recently, the Lithuanian...

Lithuania to provide free training for hundreds of nurses

Lithuania will offer free training to hundreds of young people training as nurses to shore up its struggling health system, Euronews reported. Under the new scheme, 10 colleges and universities will accept 535 people into state-funded nursing...

End Nato secrecy to convince voters on defence spending, says Lithuania

“1940 in the History of Lithuania and Bessarabia”, a conference at the National Museum of History

Trump, who came to power as a pacifist president, has started a new war for the United States, commented Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, on Sunday after the US attack on Iranian nuclear sites. Medvedev said he was...

Lithuanian Bear Drama Ends Well After Hunters Refuse to Shoot

A young female bear spent last weekend roaming the leafy suburbs of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. She wandered out of the forest and then meandered around residential areas, crossed highways, and explored backyards, completely unaware of the...

Lithuania Choses Embraer C-390 Millenium as ‘Next Generation’ Military Cargo Aircraft

Lithuania announced on Jun. 19, 2025 the selection of the Embraer C-390 Millenium military cargo aircraft as its next airlifter, and will soon begin negotiations with the Brazilian aviation major. While the Ministry of National Defence (MND) has...

Lithuanian Foreign Minister On The Release Of Belarusian Political Prisoners: It's Not The End Yet

3 Kęstutis Budris The Lukashenko regime should release all prisoners of conscience. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kiastutis Budrys commented on the release of 14 political prisoners by the Lukashenko regime. The Lithuanian minister wrote about it in...

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Lithuania Picks Embraer C-390 As Next Military Transport Aircraft

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 21. The Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania has officially launched negotiations to procure the next generation of military transport aircraft, selecting the Embraer C-390 Millennium as the...

Tikhanovsky was reunited in Lithuania with his wife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who took over as opposition leader when he was jailed

Lithuanian guard joins Pitt basketball with chip on shoulder after transfer from Iowa State

For Nojus Indrusaitis, it’s a chance to become a star player on a team that desperately needs some. For Pitt basketball and coach Jeff Capel, it is the hope that the players who have been brought in can change the narrative. “I get a vibe of...

India Untold: The Jewish woman who linked India, Israel and Lithuania through Rabindranath Tagore

Schlomith Flaum, a Jewish educator from Lithuania, spent two years in Santiniketan in the 1920s. Deeply influenced by Tagore, she became his informal ambassador and helped connect India, Israel, and Lithuania through her writings. Schlomith Frieda...

Celebrating an everlasting twilight: midsummer, Lithuanian style

Towards dusk a bonfire was lit and, one after another, the friends we were eating and drinking with hurdled the leaping flames, a pagan ritual thought to provide benefits including improved physical and mental strength, prosperity and fertility....

Group B: Italy and Lithuania leap into the Quarter-Finals

The official Women's EuroBasket app Download Now BOLOGNA (Italy) - There was double delight for Italy and Lithuania who both wrapped up the victories needed to advance to the last eight of FIBA Women's EuroBasket. Italy rode another...

Lithuania to Acquire Embraer’s C-390 Millennium Transport Aircraft

Lithuania has selected Embraer’s C-390 Millennium as the country’s next military transport aircraft. With the contract expected to be finalized in the coming months, the acquisition supports Vilnius’ efforts to enhance military capabilities and...

Lithuanian hunters refuse to kill bear that ambled around capital for two days - The Guardian