A protest action was held outside the Russian Embassy in Vilnius at noon on Friday to show disapproval of the country’s military aggression in Ukraine. […]
Member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis has addressed his colleagues in the European Parliament in an open letter. The Lithuanian representative has called to apply maximum sanctions against Russia, to impose a full embargo on its military weapons without any exceptions and to provide help to Ukraine. […]
Algirdas Genevičius took office on Friday as Deputy Minister of Environment. He will oversee waste, pollution prevention, water and the European Union support administration areas. […]
Statistics Lithuania has revised up the annual GDP growth numbers from 3.1% to 3.3% for the second quarter of this year (3.1% seasonally and working-day adjusted). Domestic demand remained the main driver of growth, while net exports continued to contribute negatively. […]
Russia should admit that it is directly taking part of the conflict in East Ukraine, Urmas Paet, the Estonian Foreign Minister, said Thursday. […]
Germany will be taking over the responsibility of supporting the Baltic Air Policing mission from Ämari Air Base in Estonia. From September until end of the year, up to six Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoon jets will patrol the skies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, in coordination with NATO fighter jets already stationed in Lithuania. […]
Three hundred members from the Estonian Defence Forces and Defence League will be providing additional security during the US President Barack Obama‘s visit to Estonia on 2 and 3 September. The operation will cost half a million euros. […]
Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk says Russian troops are now on Ukrainian soil. […]
In the contested Ukrainian city of Donetsk, the evidence of yet more heavy shelling is everywhere. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė suggests a provision that at least 90 percent of the television programmes rebroadcast in Lithuania should be in the official languages of the European Union, adding that fines should be imposed for instigation of war and infringement upon independence. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius held a meeting of ministers on Friday to address possible challenges for national security arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. […]
US President Barack Obama says he will restate a firm commitment to defend NATO allies during a meeting with Baltic leaders in Estonia next week. […]
If the international community fails to make a strong response to Russia‘s military invasion of Ukraine, Moscow may take another step, Lithuania’s representative at the United Nations Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė said on Thursday. […]
Russian intervention in Ukraine has refocused the attention on the traditional military and security challenges, but the factors that made it possible for today’s Russian attempts to revise the European security architecture should not be forgotten. Primarily, this was the result of the processes in the energy sector that go forward only because of reasoned calls of a part of intellectuals for Europe to stop funding of Vladimir Putin’s regime. […]
The Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI) says that the country should explore its shale gas potential and possibilities of using it for energy production. […]
The United Nations Security Council is holding a meeting on Thursday to address the situation in Ukraine, as requested by Lithuania, spokeswoman for the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry confirmed to BNS. […]
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