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Belarus to erect vaccination tents at border for foreigners who wish to enter country to get Russian-made Sputnik V Covid-19 jab

Posted on May 31, 2021May 31, 2021By Editor

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has revealed new plans to re-open his country’s borders for residents of foreign countries who wish to receive a vaccination against Covid-19 with the Russian-made Sputnik V jab. … Read More >Belarus to erect vaccination tents at border for foreigners who wish to enter country to get Russian-made Sputnik V Covid-19 jab

EU

Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia suspend AstraZeneca Covid vaccine after reports of potentially fatal blood clots

Posted on March 11, 2021March 11, 2021By Editor

The rollout of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine in Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia has been suspended as the health authorities investigate a possibly serious side effect in the form of fatal blood clots. … Read More >Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia suspend AstraZeneca Covid vaccine after reports of potentially fatal blood clots

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Belarus issues extradition request to Lithuania for exiled opposition figurehead Tikhanovskaya over alleged ‘crimes against state’

Posted on March 6, 2021March 6, 2021By Editor

Lithuania has rejected a formal request from neighboring Belarus, which demanded it enforce an arrest warrant against Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a prominent opposition figure and protest leader now living in the Baltic state. … Read More >Belarus issues extradition request to Lithuania for exiled opposition figurehead Tikhanovskaya over alleged ‘crimes against state’

Russia

Moscow issues international arrest warrant for Leonid Volkov, Lithuania-based Navalny ally who called for mass protests in Russia

Posted on February 12, 2021February 12, 2021By Editor

Russia has placed a high-profile associate of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny on the interstate wanted list over his alleged role in organizing two weekends of unauthorized demonstrations in cities across the country. … Read More >Moscow issues international arrest warrant for Leonid Volkov, Lithuania-based Navalny ally who called for mass protests in Russia

Russia

Russian police search apartment of key Navalny ally Volkov’s parents after he’s charged with violating protest rules

Posted on February 6, 2021February 6, 2021By Editor

On Friday, Russian police officers conducted a search of an apartment owned by the parents of Leonid Volkov, a close associate of opposition figure Alexey Navalny. Volkov is wanted by the authorities, but now lives in Lithuania. … Read More >Russian police search apartment of key Navalny ally Volkov’s parents after he’s charged with violating protest rules

EU

Lithuanian MEP who sold ‘healing water’ to cure Covid under fire over rant about what transgender women have ‘under their skirts’

Posted on January 14, 2021January 14, 2021By Editor

A controversial Lithuanian politician faces pressure in Brussels after releasing a video in which he slammed LGBT people as “perverts and deviants,” and said that life was getting harder and harder for heterosexuals. … Read More >Lithuanian MEP who sold ‘healing water’ to cure Covid under fire over rant about what transgender women have ‘under their skirts’

World

Rebranding Belarus: Exiled opposition figurehead Tikhanovskaya asks Lithuania to rename her country to eliminate Russian link

Posted on January 13, 2021January 31, 2021By Editor

For years, Belarus has been one of the countries least widely known outside of Eastern Europe. While the reasons for that are complicated, confusion over its Russian-sounding name can’t have helped it establish its identity. … Read More >Rebranding Belarus: Exiled opposition figurehead Tikhanovskaya asks Lithuania to rename her country to eliminate Russian link

EU

Outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus detected in Lithuanian poultry

Posted on January 10, 2021January 10, 2021By Editor

The World Organisation for Animal Health has reported a new outbreak of bird flu among backyard poultry in Lithuania. Suspicions were raised after the sudden death of several chickens and turkeys in the city of Kaunas. … Read More >Outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus detected in Lithuanian poultry

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As Belarus shuts border, Lithuania invites NATO for war games with tanks & troops just 8km from shared frontier

Posted on December 22, 2020December 22, 2020By Editor

US soldiers hoping for an exotic winter posting to one of their many tropical overseas bases must have been disappointed to land in icy Lithuania. Nevertheless, their presence will help to heat up military tensions in the region. … Read More >As Belarus shuts border, Lithuania invites NATO for war games with tanks & troops just 8km from shared frontier

Russia

Kremlin dismisses conspiracy theories about Putin hiding from Covid-19 in ‘Sochi bunker,’ says president working in Moscow

Posted on December 14, 2020December 14, 2020By Editor

The Kremlin has denied that President Vladimir Putin has been living in a bunker since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. His spokesman said, on Sunday, that he has been working from home at his residence outside Moscow. … Read More >Kremlin dismisses conspiracy theories about Putin hiding from Covid-19 in ‘Sochi bunker,’ says president working in Moscow