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Russian ambassador Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko speaking at a news conference Thursday March 22, 2018, at his country's embassy in London in the aftermath of the Salisbury nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Ahead of the press conference the Russian embassy said its consular services had been &quot;seriously affected&quot; by the diplomatic row with the British Government, and it would be limiting visitors as a result. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP)

The Latest: EU recalls envoy for consultations on spy attack

Associated Press

Lithuania probing bogus story after TV station is hacked

By LIUDAS DAPKUS - Associated Press

The father of American basketball players LiAngelo and LaMelo, LaVar Ball attends during the training session at the BC Prienai-Birstonas Vytautas arena in Prienai, Lithuania, Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. LiAngelo Ball and LaMelo Ball have signed a one-year contract to play for Lithuanian professional basketball club Prienai - Birstonas Vytautas, in the southern Lithuania town of Prienai, some 110 km (68 miles) from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.(AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

LaVar Ball is drama, and the NBA thrives on drama

By Thom Loverro

This Jan. 30, 2017, file photo shows a sign above the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab in Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Lithuania takes aim at Kaspersky Lab, Russian antivirus firm, banning software on certain computers

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Russia’s neighbor Lithuania gets missile system

Associated Press

Norwegian troops complete NATO deployment in Lithuania

Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, right, greet soldiers of the Germany's Army at the Training Range in Pabrade, some 60km.(38 miles) north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Mattis said NATO is helping provide a deterrent against potential Russian aggression in eastern Europe. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

US may send Patriot missile to Lithuania amid Moscow threat

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 24, 2017, file photo, Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher Dovydaus Neverauskas, from Lithuania, makes his Major League debut in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, in Pittsburgh. The 24-year-old flamethrowing reliever understands his debut - the first in the MLB by a player born and raised in the eastern European country - could have a ripple effect back home, where his father Virmidas has spent the better part of 20 years trying to nurture the sport to health (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

MLB’s first Lithuanian learned the game where few play

By WILL GRAVES - Associated Press

This is a 2017 photo of Dovydas Neverauskas of the Pittsburgh Pirates. This image represents the the Pirates active roster in Bradenton, Fla. The Pirates called up Neverauskas from Triple-A Indianapolis on Monday, April 24, 2017 giving the reliever the chance to become the second Lithuanian-born player to appear in a major league game (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Lithuanian reliever Neverauskas makes debut for Pirates

Associated Press

Revisionist History in Lithuania Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Lithuania’s Holocaust past still haunts country

By Jason Katz

From left, Lithuania's Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis, Norway's Defense Minister Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, Dutch Defense Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Belgium's Defense Minister Steven Vandeput and Luxembourg's Defense Minister Etienne Schneider pose before signing a european military cooperation agreements at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. (Francois Lenoir, Pool Photo via AP)

AP Interview: Lithuania confident of US commitment to NATO

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Lithuanian TV apologizes for Nazi gestures by actress

By JARI TANNER - Associated Press

A couple kisses in front of graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on the walls of a bar in the old town in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, May 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Poster at Lithuanian eatery: Trump locking lips with Putin

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius wants clear messages from the West to counter Russian propaganda in the Eastern bloc. (Associated Press)

Linas Linkevicius, Lithuanian Foreign Minister, says Russian propaganda fills void from West

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev comments before the Congress of People's Deputies during debate on his proposal to transform the Soviet Union into a confederation of sovereign states in Moscow on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1991. Officials also said that Gorbachev has agreed to independence for the Baltic republics and will issue a formal decree making them the first republics to win such recognition from the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

L.TODD WOOD: Russian prosecutor probing Baltics’ independence

By L. Todd Wood

Konstantin Dolgov (AP Photo/Osamu Honda)

L. TODD WOOD: Russia says Baltic Russian-speaking populations being violated

By L. Todd Wood

In this photo taken on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, Shmuel Levin, the chairman of the Jewish religious Community of Vilnius and Lithuania, leans against a wall of the power substation built of tombstones from a Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania. Tombstones from a Jewish cemetery were used to build a power substation in the 1960s. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Lithuanian power grid has dark secret buried in Soviet past

By Liudas Dapkus - Associated Press

A Russian air force Mi-26 helicopter, front, flies over Red Square during the Victory Parade marking the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (Host photo agency/RIA Novosti Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Russia aggression prompts Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania to seek NATO force

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian soldiers guard a pier where two Ukrainian naval ships are moored, in Sevastopol, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Lithuania’s ‘little green men’ war games sends message to Moscow: ‘We’re not fearing anybody’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times