Lithuania

A Quick, Quiet Trip to Belarus Signals a Turn in U.S. Policy

David Bale4 weeks ago014 mins

The senior American diplomat slipped quietly into Belarus, a police state run by a strongman reviled for decades in the West, traveling by car across the border for meetings with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko and the head of his KGB security apparatus. It was Mr. Lukashenko’s first meeting with a senior State Department official in…

Lithuania’s Constitutional Court rules against ‘gay propaganda’ law

David Bale2 months ago04 mins

Lithuania has ruled against its criticised “gay propaganda” law. (Yauhen Yerchak/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Lithuania’s Constitutional Court has ruled against its 2009 “gay propaganda” law, which banned the “promotion” of homosexual relationships to children. The country’s highest court ruled that the law violates its Constitution. Last month, the Constitutional Court of the Eastern European…

Ukrainian military gets NATO-standard training in Poland, Lithuania

David Bale3 months ago01 mins

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian soldiers have been receiving training from NATO troops. VOA recently visited one of these training sites where troops from Britain and Canada are training Ukrainian soldiers. Vladislavs Andrejevs has the story, narrated by Anna Rice.