US Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force recently concluded their second defensive hunt operation to Lithuania, building upon relationships and experiences from the previous deployment to the country in May 2022, reports the Ministry of the Interior.

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Margarita Drobiazko has spoken out against proposals to strip her of Lithuanian citizenship, calling them a “witch hunt” and claiming she is not taking part in Russia’s propaganda activities.

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The Lithuanian School Student Union (LMS) on Tuesday signed a cooperation agreement with a teachers’ trade union, which is planning a strike. They have agreed that if teachers’ demands are not met, then a march will take place on 29 September from schools of striking teachers to the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport.

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Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says her ministry has already drafted amendments to the law on foreigners’ legal status to enable a mechanism for issuing a foreigner’s passport to opponents of Alexander Lukashenko’s regime only.

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Latvia’s parliamentary commission has decided not to lower the age limit for Russian citizens who have to pass the Latvian language exam in order to keep their residence permit, delfi.lv reports.

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Amid public discussions whether women should be conscripted for military service in Lithuania, president’s chief adviser on national security Kęstutis Budrys thinks this could be introduced but such conscription model would require more funding for military infrastructure.

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The European Commission has adopted guidelines that cars with Russian number plates should not be allowed to enter the European Union. Commenting about the guidelines Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jovita Neliupšienė said that cars with Russian number plates would be seized if they enter Lithuania, unless a driver is travelling in transit to Kaliningrad region.

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Political emigrant Anastasia Shevchenko speaks about Alexei Navalny, war, and children's destiny in Russia.

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On 11 September, President Edgars Rinkēvičs met with the European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reyenders to discuss Russia’s responsibility for the crimes committed against Ukraine, as well as the priorities of the Latvian presidency of the Council of Europe. The meeting took place in the margins of the Informal Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Council of Europe in Riga, said the presidency.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania strongly condemns the so-called “elections” of governors, regional legislatures, city and municipal councils, organised by the Russian government and its collaborators on 8-10 September in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine – the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, as well as in parts of Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions, said the MFA.

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Lithuania has opened a laser laboratory in Taiwan in efforts to accelerate the development of laser technology and new technologies, the Ministry of Economy and Innovation said on Monday.

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The autumn parliamentary session will be taking place against a backdrop of external and internal challenges, with populist rhetoric intensifying in the run-up to elections, said the Seimas speaker as she addressed MPs in the first sitting on Sunday.

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President Gitanas Nausėda believes the tax system should be upgraded in a way that would ensure greater support to the middle class and families with children. He also calls for taxing high income on the basis of its size rather than a source.

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MP Saulius Skvernelis, chair of the opposition’s Democrats For Lithuania, believes the Social Democratic Party may rescue the tax reform bill in the Seimas.

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Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė and Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov on Thursday agreed to strengthen cooperation in Ukraine’s reconstruction and expand the partnership between the two countries in the fields of economy, transport, education and other areas, the ministry said in a press release.

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Addressing the participants of the international economic conference Vilnius 700: Creating a Better Future in a Turbulent World on Friday, President Gitanas Nausėda highlighted Lithuania’s readiness to take part in the creation of a unified, open, competitive, and peaceful Europe, where each country would be free to pursue its own goals, said the presidency.

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On Friday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with Vice-President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis to discuss the agenda for the new EU political season, support for Ukraine, the use of frozen Russian assets for rebuilding Ukraine, sanctions against Russia, and Russia's accountability for crimes of aggression, stated the president’s press service.

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The National Alliance party has addressed authorities calling on the government to stop all measures aimed at facilitated workforce immigration to Lithuania.

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Brussels officials are hinting at a looming loss of “several hundred” millions of euros from the European Union funds for Lithuania if the Seimas rejects the Government’s tax reform proposals, reports business news website Verslo žinios (vz.lt).

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President Gitanas Nausėda, currently in Bucharest for the Three Seas Initiative Summit, has met with the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Odile Renaud-Basso, the presidency said in a press release.

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