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Lithuanian State Border Guard Service
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Cigarette smuggling in the Baltic region
2 clusters · 6 sources · last updated
Latest: Latvian customs seize large cigarette shipment hidden in carrots
Authorities in the Baltic region have intercepted significant shipments of contraband cigarettes. In Lithuania, border guards and police seized 55,490 packs of illegal tobacco delivered from Belarus via hot air balloons.
Escalating border security and hybrid threats in the Baltics
21 clusters · 99 sources · last updated
Latest: Belarus bans import of various Latvian goods
The security situation along the Baltic borders with Belarus has intensified, characterized by an increase in underground smuggling and hybrid warfare tactics. In Latvia, authorities discovered two migrant tunnels in Aug
Russian asylum seeker Nemunas River incident
2 clusters · 10 sources · last updated
Latest: Russian man sentenced after swimming from Kaliningrad to Lithuania
In September 2026, a 68-year-old Russian man, Igor Yuryevich Odintsov, attempted to enter Lithuania by swimming across the Nemunas River from the Kaliningrad exclave. While the man claimed he was seeking asylum to escape