TALLINN — Despite their similarities and geographic proximity, the three Baltic states will go down three very different roads in order to meet the EU’s climate change agreement made in Copenhagen last week.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference concluded last Friday in Copenhagen, yielding neither a substantial victory or a crushing blow to environmental activists. [...]

VILNIUS — The Lithuanian parliament agreed on Tuesday to change the wording in a controversial bill intending to protect minors and has removed any references to homosexuality.
The new wording bans any kind of public discussion, in or out of schools, that encourages children to engage in sexual intercourse. Formerly, it had banned any discussion that [...]

VILNIUS — Lithuania hosted two CIA prisons, dating back to as early as 2002, a parliamentary panel concluded in a report issued on Tuesday.
The landmark report conclusively links Lithuania to the CIA after months of speculation. Specifically, the report concludes that upper administrators in the VSD, Lithuania’s State Security Department, were responsible for implementing the [...]

VILNIUS — A car registered to the Chinese ambassador to Lithuania was set ablaze Thursday evening in the Žvėrynas neighborhood of Vilnius.
The car was a 2003 Volkswagen Passat and belonged to the Chinese embassy. It was registered to Ambassador Tong Mingtao.
Pictures of the incident show firefighters watering down a smoldering blue car with broken windows. [...]

VILNIUS — A Russian aircraft briefly violated Lithuanian airspace shortly after noon on Thursday near Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the aircraft was a non-military An26 aircraft registered in Russia. It was in Lithuanian airspace for about two minutes over the Šilutė district, and went about two kilometers in.
The air violation “seemed [...]

KAUNAS, Lithuania — A Kaunas police officer fatally struck a man in a vehicular accident on Wednesday evening, the second incident of its kind this month.
The officer, whose initials are R.Š., was off duty and driving his own car, a Citroen Xsara Picasso. Lina Nemeikaitė, spokeswoman for the Lithuanian Police Department, said the officer hit [...]

VILNIUS — An organized crime unit of the Lithuanian Police Department arrested a man on Monday after he was found to be holding a large cache of weapons and explosives in his basement.
The man, whose initials are A.V.B., is a Soviet military veteran. He had at least three rifles, one with optical sight, two small [...]

VILNIUS — A family of three was killed in a house fire late Wednesday evening in Valkininkiai, located near Alytus. The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
The members of the family include a 68-year-old father, 57-year-old mother and 31-year-old daughter.
Firefighters extinguished the fire shortly after midnight on Thursday morning. No other buildings were [...]

VILNIUS — Lithuania will not participate in the 2010 Eurovision contest unless it can find sponsors willing to foot the 300,000 litai (€86,000) bill, the Lithuanian National Radio and Television company said this week.
“Our budget for next year is cut 19 percent and it is not easy for us to support it,” Vytaras Radzevičius, spokesperson [...]

VILNIUS — The Lithuanian government continued its house cleaning of employees allegedly involved in allowing the CIA to host a secret prison within the Baltic state’s borders.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė announced on Wednesday that she is recalling the ambassadorship of Mečys Laurinkus, currently serving as the Lithuanian ambassador to Georgia. Sources throughout the government said that [...]