As reported by the governmental press service, the decision was made on proposal from the Lithuanian Education and Science Ministry after the inspection in the academy.
The ministerial commission said that the academy had continually broken the Lithuanian laws, ignoring the government's demands and failing to provide the information on its academic programs.
Earlier, the rector of the Russian Baltic Institute, Stanislav Buka, told RIA Novosti that, in case the government takes the decision, he would appeal against it court.
He said he was ready to lodge a complaint against the conclusions drawn by the Lithuanian ministry, as well as the resolution of the Lithuanian government, on the closure of the Lithuanian branch of the Russian Baltic Institute in any instances, including the European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg.
The Russian Baltic Institute, established in 1992, is the largest non-state higher educational establishment in countries of the Baltic region and Northern Europe. The number of its students is over 10,000, including 800 from 15 countries. Tuition is done according to the EU-approved program Eurolingua in Russian, Lettish, English, and Lithuanian.
The Russian Baltic Institute is a permanently accredited higher school of the Latvian Republic. It issues graduation certificates of the officially established pattern, recognized also in Lithuania.
In a RIA Novosti interview, Stanislav Buka flatly rejects the assertions of the Lithuanian mass media that tuition in the academy is according to the Russian programs and, hence, pursues the pro-Russian policy and ideology, is a cover for the Russian secret services allegedly "recruiting agents from among employees of the police, prosecutor general's office and other security-related structures studying there."
"I cannot comment on the lies spread by the Lithuanian mass media about my higher educational establishment. I can only say that these lies are part of the thoroughly pre-planned unfair competition. They do both material and moral damage to me as a co-owner of the higher school and a citizen of Latvia and the European Union," Stanislav Buka said.
He also told RIA Novosti that his lawyers are going to sue the Lithuanian mass media.
