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Lithuania places its rapid reaction force on high alert in response to Russia's mobilization, according to Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas.
2022-09-21

Lithuania bans Russian IT companies from relocating to Lithuania.
2022-04-4

Taiwan announces that it will be opening a representative office in Vilnius, Lithuania. This comes amid warming relations between the two nations and the opening of a Lithuanian office in Taipei. The office will be known as the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania, making it the first Taiwanese diplomatic mission in Europe to include Taiwan in its name.
2021-07-20

Lithuania reports its first case of the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a woman from Vilnius who tested positive for COVID-19 in early January.
2021-02-1

Lithuania declares a three-week lockdown starting from November 7 to curb the spread of COVID-19.
2020-11-4

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya flees Belarus to her family in Lithuania, according to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Antanas Linkevičius. Tsikhanouskaya had gone into hiding after the disputed election, which she accuses President Alexander Lukashenko of rigging.
2020-08-11

Pope Francis arrives in Vilnius, Lithuania, on his visit to the Baltic States.
2018-09-22

Tornado has swept threw south western part of Lithuania, near city of Rusnė
2010-08-17

Hundreds of people take part in a two-hour march, "For Equality", in Vilnius at Lithuania's first gay pride, with police shooting tear gas and arresting at least 12 people who threw stones and fireworks at marchers.
2010-05-8

An appeals court in Lithuania overturns a ruling which had earlier, due to fears over homophobic violence, prevented the country's first gay pride parade going ahead in Vilnius tomorrow.
2010-05-7