Vilnius in Lithuania may not come to mind when you think of a European city break, but it really should - the city is ...

Deep Background: It has been a long journey. The Baltic countries first signaled their readiness to join the continental grid ...

The country recently became the first member of the NATO military alliance to commit to raising its defense spending to at ...

Lithuania’s Deputy Finance Minister Valentinas Gavrilovas, who was recently discovered to have a profile on Russian social media Vkontakte (VK) which included a Soviet-era musical playlist, might be ...

Ukraine, maybe. Baltic countries, maybe.” Lithuania, which was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1990, is increasingly worried about the ongoing brutal war in Ukraine and the aggression of its ...

Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. The Slavic nation of 9 million people is sandwiched between Russia and Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, the latter three all ...

Latvia and Lithuania, was once part of the USSR. Like many leaders of former Soviet republics, Lukashenko’s political career began during that period. Unlike them, however, Lukashenko did not ...

Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda emphasized the necessity of Ukraine’s full involvement in peace negotiations and ...

VILNIUS, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Lithuania said on Wednesday it has ramped up security around the country's electricity link with Poland ahead of a planned decoupling next month of the Baltic region's ...

Georgia, another former Soviet republic, was hit by a similar ... stretches from the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Kosovo, Serbia and other parts of former Yugoslavia.

Three other former members of the Soviet Union - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - have joined the bloc, a years-long negotiating process requiring harmonisation with EU legislation, among other things.