VILNIUS - NATO will closely follow Russia's military exercises near the Baltic countries' borders, including its joint drills with Belarus and China, the Alliance's secretary general said in Lithuania on Tuesday. Jens Stoltenberg called for trans...
WARSAW - The U.S. is to station three units of up to 600 airborne troops across the Baltic countries for the duration of the large-scale Russian military exercise Zapad taking place this fall, the commander of U.S. Army Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, told Reuters on Friday. "When (Russia) went into Crimea, that was against the backdrop of an exercise. When they went into Georgia - that was an exercise", he said. "Their history is fu...
TALLINN – Members of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian fast-response units and special forces practiced detaining armed criminals on Thursday in northern and central Estonia, the regional daily Jarva Teataja said. Fast-response units and special forces -- K-komando from Estonia, Omega from Latvia and Aras from Lithuania -- participated in the exercise, spokesperson for the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board Barbara Lichtfeldt said. "In Paide...
According to Eurostat, the EU agency of statistics, the Lithuanian population's decline at 11,3% in 2015 was record-high among the EU member states last year. What has to be done to halt exodus from Lithuania?
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