Month: August 2014

Kęstutis Girnius
Opinion

Opinion: Information war – no need for mobilization yet

August 22, 2014 DELFI EN 0

The heralds of information wars are disconcerted, identify ever more battlefields, call on proper mobilisation. The latest example is the response of Aleksandras Matonis to a report aired on the Russian TV, in which members of the expedition Mission Russia have been referred to as tourists following the traces of the WW II victims and reportedly hoping that in the future joint Russian-Lithuanian groups would be travelling Europe to pay homage to the fallen Soviet soldiers. The leader of the expedition said such hope was actually expressed by the Russian journalist. […]

US Capitol. Photo: Ludo Segers
Global LT

Black Ribbon day commemoration in Washington, DC

August 22, 2014 Ludo Segers 0

Seventy-five years ago, on 23 August, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a cooperation and non-aggression pact. The now infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact divided Europe and provided with its secret provisions an evil platform that set the stage for the Second World War. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact divided Europe in a half Nazi, half Communist continent. It stands as a stark reminder that totalitarianism in its various forms leads to death and destruction. […]

No Picture
Energy

Lithuania’s gas security: Risks and opportunities

August 22, 2014 Agnia Grigas 0

There is a long-held view that the Russian gas supply to Lithuania is unlikely to be cut-off because Lithuania serves as a gas transit state to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. In other words, the same gas pipeline feeding Lithuania, also supplies the Russian enclave. According to this argument, Moscow would be hesitant to turn off the gas supply to Lithuania because it would result in an automatic cut in the gas supply to Kaliningrad. […]

No Picture
Society

The Russian information war in Lithuania

August 21, 2014 Jakob Ljungman 0

Lithuania is one of many countries where Russia is waging war for hearts and minds – the information war. It is a war fought on television, the internet, and newspapers without any loss of human life. The goal, however, is the same as in any classic warfare scenario: controlling the central political processes of the enemy state. […]

Loreta Graužinienė
Politics

Lithuanian Labour Party wants to nominate energy minister

August 21, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that the Labour Party could nominate new energy minister, but this will only be discussed next week at the political council of the Coalition. […]

SGD plaukiojantis terminalas „Independence“, „Klaipėdos naftos“ nuotr.
Energy

Lithuania signs 5-year LNG supply deal with Statoil

August 21, 2014 BNS 0

Litgas, the gas trading arm of the state energy holding company Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy), and Norway’s Statoil signed a five-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply deal preliminary valued at 2.5 billion to 3 billion litas (EUR 725-870m). […]

Jaroslav Neverovič and Dalia Grybauskaitė
Opinion

Opinion: Will Cytacka save Lithuania?

August 21, 2014 DELFI EN 0

In the context of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, it is very important for Lithuania and other countries in the region to maintain domestic political stability. Otherwise it would be relatively easy to induce regional unrest by artificially stirring up dissatisfied factions of their societies. […]