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‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?

The steel city knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of Bob Sredersas

The Guardian - AU

Mark Sykes named in Republic of Ireland squad for Belgium and Lithuania games

Former Northern Ireland youth international Sykes has received his first call-up to Stephen Kenny's senior squad

Belfast Live

Ireland squad announcement: Stephen Kenny names side for Belgium and Lithuania friendlies

The Boys in Green are back in action as they take on Belgium and Lithuania in a friendly double header later this month

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Baltic nations expel ten Russian diplomats

Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania have expelled a total of ten Russian diplomats, the foreign ministries of the three Baltic countries said on Friday.

Reuters

"Tsunami of goodwill": Ukrainian orphans welcomed in Lithuania shelters

Forty-four children from an orphanage in eastern Ukraine settled in Lithuanian Trakai resort last week, after a 36-hour bus journey through bombed country.

Reuters

The Russian diaspora isn't showing much support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Members of diaspora communities often mobilize to provide support to their ancestral homeland during a crisis. While the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a crisis for Ukrainians, it’s also a crisis for Russia, and thousands have been detained for protesting the war.

The Conversation

Russian TV shares chilling war plan to conquer Baltic states after Ukraine invasion

A former senior officer spoke about chilling scenario in which Putin's regime captured Nato countries Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia as thousands of Nato troops take part in military exercises near the Russian border

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Lithuania says EU should scrap summit with China

A planned summit between China and the European Union should be canceled until Beijing shows whether it stands with Russia or the West over the conflict in Ukraine, a senior Lithuanian official said on Wednesday.

Reuters

UK to Host Baltic, Nordic Leaders to Find New Ways to Isolate Russia

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host leaders from countries along Russia's northwestern flank next week to discuss ways they can respond to President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, including finding new ways to isolate Russia's economy. The leaders from countries in the Joint Expeditionary Force, a British-led grouping made…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine morning briefing: Reports of mass graves and claims Lithuania is Putin's next target

Videos of what appear to be bodies in bags being piled in mass graves have emerged online

Wales Online

Boris Johnson to hold summit with Nordic and Baltic leaders facing Putin's aggression

Boris Johnson is bringing together Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway for talks on the current crisis and how to rebuild Ukraine after the war

Daily Mirror

Lithuania's premier joins rush to sign up for paramilitary volunteer force

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte was sworn in on Friday as a member of the Riflemen's Union, a paramilitary volunteer force that supports the police and the army and has seen a surge in applications since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Reuters

Heidi Stevens: 'There is no far away.' With memories of war in her own country, my friend pleads for unity with Ukraine

My dear friend Audra is from Lithuania.

Tribune News Service

Lithuania names road leading to Russian embassy ‘Ukrainian Heroes’ Street’

‘The business card of every employee of the Russian embassy will be decorated with a note honouring Ukraine’s fighting,’ says mayor of Vilnius

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Republic boss Stephen Kenny out to fulfil ‘big ambition’ and reach Euro 2024

The Irish start their 2022 programme with March friendlies against Belgium and Lithuania.

Reuters

Lithuania project fights Kremlin view of Ukraine conflict one phone call at a time

A Lithuania-based project is urging Russian speakers worldwide to make random phone calls to people in Russia and speak openly about Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, an effort to offset the Kremlin's tightening grip on domestic media.

Reuters

Lithuania tightens state of emergency over Ukraine invasion

Lithuania imposed a stricter state of emergency on Thursday in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, limiting rights to free expression and peaceful assembly, in what critics said were the toughest constraints on personal freedom since Soviet times.

The Hindu

Two held for attempted sexual assault on Lithuanian woman

Nellore police have arrested two youth for alleged attempt to sexually assault a foreign woman in the Rapur forests near Sydapuram village in SPSR Nellore district.

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As fighting continues in Ukraine, Russia’s tiny Baltic neighbours wonder if they will be next

In the tiny Baltic nations, residents are trying to continue life as usual in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But the fighting happening on their doorstep, and the parallels to the Soviet invasion of their own region, are impossible to ignore.

The Independent UK

‘President Zelensky Way’ road sign erected outside Russian embassy in Washington DC

Lithuania and Latvia have renamed streets in solidarity with Ukraine

Reuters

Lithuania to ramp up military spending, PM says

Lithuanian political parties have agreed to support a government proposal to increase defence spending in 2022 to more than 2.5% of gross domestic product (GDP), Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said on Monday.

Reuters

Blinken says U.S. has 'sacrosanct' commitment to NATO's Article 5

The United States has a "sacrosanct" commitment to NATO's Article 5 guarantee of mutual defense between member-states, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a visit to Lithuania on Monday.

The Independent UK

US assures nervous Baltics of NATO protection against Russia

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on a lightning visit to the three Baltic states that are increasingly on edge as they watch Russia press ahead with its invasion of Ukraine

Birmingham Post

Construction firm Mitnija UK makes £500k loss as Plymouth hotel project stalled

British division of Lithuanian construction giant was pitched into a loss during 2021, documents reveal

Reuters

U.S. seeks to calm fears in Baltics that Putin 'will not stop in Ukraine'

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought on Monday to reassure Washington's Baltic allies who fear President Vladimir Putin will not stop at Ukraine in trying to redraw the borders of Europe.

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