EU sanctions

Some companies operating in Lithuania, clearly aware that they are helping Moscow to evade sanctions, are organising the export of equipment, technology and other products to Russia. Part of them engage in the schemes on their own initiative, the latest national threat assessment by intelligence age...

The European Union on Friday adopted the 13th package of individual and economic sanctions against Russia, Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry reports.

Investigative journalism centre Siena reports that Arkadiy Abramovich, a son of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, had his Lithuanian passport renewed last autumn, already after his father was included on the EU sanctions list. This was confirmed to reporters by the director of the Migration Depa...

The Baltic States and Poland are calling on their European allies to start working on a 13th package of sanctions against Russia, says Lithuanian Ambassador to the European Union (EU) Arnoldas Pranckevičius.

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis calls on his counterparts at the European Union’s (EU) Foreign Affairs Council to consider the Belarus sanctions package separately from the exception for Belarusian potash, which has prevented the EU from approving the Belarus targeted sanctions for half a ye...

Lithuanian National Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas has warned that Russia may resort to provocations because of the existing Kaliningrad transit restrictions, adding, however, that Lithuania and NATO allies are closely watching the situation in the region and are ready to react.

Lithuania's European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius on Tuesday criticized the country for its failure to properly prepare its strategic communication to respond to Russia's threats over the restriction of the transit of some goods to the Kaliningrad region.

Swedbank has frozen the accounts of a sanatorium in Lithuania's southern town of Druskininkai, which belongs to the State of Belarus, citing the sanctions introduced by the European Union.

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have on Friday agreed to expand the existing sanctions for the Belarusian regime's officials and blacklisted the country's information and sports ministers and police officers.

A third package of EU sanctions against the Minsk regime is inevitable, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda's chief foreign policy advisor has said.

Lithuania is taking steps to fix its decision on the refund deadline for tourists affected by the coronavirus crisis to avoid EU sanctions. Under the plans, people would recover their money within 14 days, instead of the existing 90 days, as the Lithuanian Seimas decided last spring.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius has said he will suggest imposing EU sanctions against Belarus' officials responsible for vote-rigging and violence against protesters.