International companies in the IT sector and others operating in the Russian Federation will not be able to move to Lithuania. This was announced by the Lithuanian Minister of Economy and Innovation Aushrine Armonaite on Facebook.. "

She added that the company stops issuing new intermediary documents to international companies that had representative offices in Russia.. According to the minister, several IT firms operating in Russia were seriously considering moving their divisions to Lithuania.. " Therefore, after the start of the war, Lithuania maintained contact with international companies that decided to leave Russia.. These were predominantly IT companies. We have never worked with individual individuals and specialists, we have never worked with Russian capital enterprises.

We spoke only with international companies," Armonaite noted that by the end of March, three small international companies had moved to Lithuania, which already had representative offices in Lithuania, but which also worked in Russia. The Minister says that the total number of transferred persons does not reach one hundred - these are company employees, members of their families, children.

Earlier, Lithuania was the first European Union country to completely stop gas imports from Russia.. Since the beginning of April 2022, the Lithuanian gas transmission system has not imported gas from Russia.