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At the meeting, Skaisgiryte Liaukiene stressed the importance of smart defence projects and the significance of the NATO air police mission in the Baltic States for regional security.

Masiulis is going to initiate a discussion during the government's meeting and ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was in charge of signing the agreement, to explain whether people's doubts that after signing this agreement Lithuania will restrict the Internet freedom are reasoned.

The Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders is hosting the 15th annual Lithuanian Flag Raising Ceremony at noon on Thursday, February 16 at the Ocean County Administration Building, 101 Hooper Avenue.

Poland and Lithuania could tie up their natural gas networks in a project that could create 6.8 billion cubic meters of annual transit capacity for EUR 537 million, Poland's gas network operator Gaz-System said of a feasibility study conducted with its Lithuanian counterpart AB Lietuvos Dujos.

In this image made from Klan Kosova TV video, rescuers carry a 5-year-old girl pulled alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both of her parents and at least seven of her relatives in the remote mountain village of Restelica, southern Kosovo, Sunday, Feb.

A pedestrian walks a dog on the frozen Neris river in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, Feb.

Activists protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, in front of the Government palace in Vilnius , Lithuania, Saturday, Feb.

Anyksciu Vynas AB Notification on material event The report on the implementation of mandatory non-competitive tender offer was received Anyksciai, Lithuania, 2012-02-10 13:08 CET -- On 10 February 2012 Anyksciu Vynas AB received a report from its shareholder FR&R Invest IGA S.A. on the implementation of the mandatory non-competitive tender offer.

Each year in the first days of March, the Vilnius Old Town streets are flooded with the uproar of the weekend of Kaziukas.

Tourists take a self-timer photo in front of a snow surrounded ancient Colosseum in Rome.

Polish and Lithuanian gas companies said on Friday they would seek support from the European Commission to link national gas grids by 2018, a step towards developing a regional gas market.

Apranga APB Notification about acquisition of a block of shares Notification on the disposal of a block of shares Vilnius, Lithuania, 2012-02-10 10:09 CET -- Apranga APB received the notification from East Capital AB on the disposal of a block of shares .

Having acquainted Vilnius residents with the Lithuanian Jewish heritage that has fallen into decay, the head of the Jakovas Bunka Charity and Sponsorship Fund is now planning to take the exhibition to European countries.

On 9 February in Vilnius, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Azubalis and Secretary General for the Nordic Council of Ministers Halldr sgrmsson discussed the future of the Nordic-Baltic partnership, the new guidelines for the Baltic-Nordic cooperation that are currently being drafted and should enter into force after the expiry of the ... (more)

Lithuania, in unbundling the monopolies in the gas market, will let in Russian gas giant Gazprom to partly participate in the management of the country's gas-main, reports LETA.

VILNIUS, Feb 08, BNS NATO on Wednesday decided to extend the Baltic Air Policing mission which has so far had a mandate until 2014.

We welcome today's decision of the North Atlantic Council to extend the air policing mission in the Baltic States after 2014.

LESTO AB Notification on material event Regarding New Wording of Law on Electricity The new wording of Law on Electricity of the Republic of Lithuania was published in the"Valstybes A3 4inios" yesterday on 7 February 2012.

Hundreds of family members and strangers converged on Monday and Tuesday on the capital's Shaare Zedek Medical Center out of concern for the health of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the leading haredi Ashkenazi rabbinical arbiter of the generation, who suffers from congestive heart failure and was in critical but stable condition.

The toll from Europe's killer cold snap is climbing. Overall, 107 people have died of hypothermia in Poland since winter hit in November.