Lithuania arrests Russian intelligence agent

Police in Lithuania have arrested a member of Russia’s Federal Security Bureau (FSB), the post-Soviet successor to the KGB. According to Lithuania’s Attorney General, the FSB agent was detained on April 29 and formally arrested the next day.

Police are refusing to release the name of the arrested man, but they have revealed that his initials are N.F. and he was born in 1977.

The Attorney General says the FSB agent was in Lithuania to infiltrate the country’s policymakers, law enforcement agencies, and intelligence services.

• In late March, the Lithuanian parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of reinstating the draft, to combat officials' growing concerns about Russia's foreign policy in Eastern Europe. Men in Lithuania between the ages of 19 and 26 will be subject to compulsory military service for a period of nine months. The new plan will call up as many as 3,500 soldiers every year.