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Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania declare Lukashenko persona non grata
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs has added Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and 29 other high-ranking officials of Belarus to the list of people who are banned from entering the country. The foreign ministries of Estonia and Lithuania made the same decisions.
The statement published on the website of the Latvian Foreign Ministry named the reasons for the sanctions and listed the names of the Belarusian officials.
" Persons on this list are not permitted to travel to Latvia …
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Minsk accuses Lithuania of violating Belarus borders
The Belarusian Ministry of Defense said that Lithuania attempted to violate the airspace of the country.
According to the ministry, the "provocation" took place on August 23 at 19:30 in the village of Volkovshchina in the Ashmyany district, which borders Lithuania. "A cluster of eight balloons with anti-state symbols was launched from the adjacent territory," the statement reads.
Mi-24 helicopters from the air defense forces stopped the flight of balloons without the use of weapons, the …
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Belarus deploys missile division to Polish and Lithuanian border
The head of the Belarusian Defense Ministry Viktor Khrenin announced the start of large-scale tactical exercises in the Grodno region, near the border with Poland.
According to the Telegram channel VESTI, Alexander Lukashenko will personally monitor the course of the exercises.
Meanwhile, REN TV, citing the press service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry, reports that Minsk has decided to strengthen the military group on the border with Poland and Lithuania.
The missile division, air …
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Lithuania declares Lukashenko persona non grata
The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has added Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to the list of persons who are banned entry into the country, announced Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius, reports Sputnik Balarus.
32 people have been accused of the election fraud and the use of force against protesters in Belarus and put on Lithuania’s blacklist.
According to the Lithuania’s Foreign Minister, the list of persons has been submitted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs …
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Lukashenko orders to deploy airborne brigade to the border with Poland and Lithuania
The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, ordered the airborne brigade from Vitebsk to be transferred to Grodno which is located on the border with Poland and Lithuania, reported Interfax with reference to Lukashenko's statement on air of the TV channel Belarus 1.
"We cannot just watch calmly what is happening in these territories. Our military is also concerned about this problem. Therefore, I will ask additionally, as the tense situation on the western border continues, for the …
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Lithuanian President calls for sanctions against Belarus
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that it is time to talk seriously about sanctions against Belarus in response to the government's repression against the opposition, reports Delfi.
"The dynamics are such that we should talk seriously about sanctions for Belarus, because what is happening now, even from a distance, is beyond the repressions that the regime has carried out for years. Now we see both dead and wounded people. We see several thousand people who have been detained, or their …
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Lukashenko’s election rival leaves Belarus for Lithuania
Alexander Lukashenko's main rival in the Belarusian presidential election, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has left the country. "Tikhanovskaya is safe, she is in Lithuania," Lithuanian foreign minister Linas Linkevičius said on Twitter.
In the presidential elections of Belarus on August 9, according to preliminary data of the Central Elections Committee, the incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko received 80.08% of the votes, Tikhanovskaya - 10.9%. On August 10, Tikhanovskaya filed a complaint with …
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Lithuania bans broadcast of Russian TV channel RT
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania has banned the broadcast of the Russian TV channel RT in the country.
The reason was the connection of the TV channel with the Russian TV presenter and director general of the news agency "Russia Today" Dmitry Kiselyov, who is on the EU sanctions list, explained the chairman of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission, Mantas Martisius.
"Based on the information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Lithuanian Radio and Television …
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Lithuanian President calls on Russia to implement Minsk agreements
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda expressed support for Ukraine before the Normandy Four meeting.
Nausėda said that Lithuania continues to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine and calls on the Kremlin to implement the Minsk agreements.
"The Normandy Summit is approaching. Lithuania strongly supports Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. We urge Russia to fulfill its obligations under the Minsk agreements," wrote the Lithuanian President on his Twitter.
Earlier, German …
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Lithuanian President urges NATO to recognize Russia as a threat to world order
During the NATO Summit in London, the Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda appealed to NATO leaders to consider Russia a threat to the existing world order.
"It is essential to call Russia a threat. If we do not do this, we will significantly change the whole perspective of NATO's structure," said Lithuanian President.
Nausėda stated that the Kremlin's actions are the biggest threat to international law, and "to the rules that have been established for decades."
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