2014 - Page 96 of 142 - the Lithuania Tribune

Edward Lucas: The West skipped summer semester on geopolitics

August 24, 2014 Edward Lucas 0

The downing of the Malaysian airline MH17 finally turned the world’s eyes to the conflict in Ukraine. The criminal irresponsibility of putting advanced weapons in the hands of ill-trained, trigger-happy insurgents was obvious even to professional foreign-policy analysts. […]

Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis. Photo Ludo Segers

Black Ribbon Day in Washington, D.C., marks 75th anniversary of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

August 24, 2014 Ludo Segers from Washington 0

August 23 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that divided Europe and facilitated the start of the Second World War. Now remembered as Black Ribbon Day in many countries, it coincided this year with the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way event. There were several commemorations in the United States that started early in the morning with a ceremony in the United States Congress and later the same morning at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C. […]

Rail Baltica company to apply for EU funding in October

August 24, 2014 BNS 0

RB Rail, a joint venture of the three Baltic countries that will coordinate the European-standard gauge railway project Rail Baltica, should apply to the European Commission for EU funding in October, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Saturday. […]

Lithuanian prime minister: H. Consul’s murder shows Ukraine is at war

August 24, 2014 BNS 0

The murder of Lithuania’s honorary consul in Luhansk has shown that what is happening in Ukraine is a war and that pro-Russian separatists are not choosing their victims, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Saturday. […]

Tourism in Lithuania up almost 10 percent

August 24, 2014 ELTA EN 0

According to the provisional data of Statistics Lithuania, in the second quarter of 2014, accommodation establishments accommodated 9.5 percent more guests than in the same period in 2013 and received 637.7 thousand tourists. […]

Baltics express support to Ukraine as they mark 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way

August 23, 2014 BNS 0

People in the Baltic countries express their solidarity with Ukraine at events held on Saturday to mark the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said. […]

Is it time to forget the Baltic Way?

August 23, 2014 Ziniu radijas 0

Lithuania is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way on Saturday. […]

Opinion: How lucky I was to squeeze into the Baltic Way chain

August 23, 2014 Linas Jegelevicius 0

Perhaps few events in my 43-year-old’s life have been so vivid and, without exaggeration, future-defining as the Baltic Way. […]

Lithuanian honorary consul kidnapped and killed in Luhansk

August 23, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuanian Honorary Consul in the Ukrainian region of Luhansk Mykola Zelenec was kidnapped and found dead after 12 days, Lithuanian Ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas told BNS on Friday. […]

Lithuanian-American actor Lauren Lapkus stars in Hollywood comedy

August 23, 2014 DELFI EN 0

For those who love Hollywood movies, it is always a great pleasure to discover actors who have Lithuanian blood and who have carved out their reputation in the highest league of film industry. One of those actors is Lauren Lapkus who stars in the new comedy “Are You Here”. The actor, who worked with Zach Galifianakis and Owen Wilson, inherited the Lithuanian blood and surname from her father. […]

US sanctions policy coordinator Daniel Fried: Russia seems to be digging itself deeper in the hole

August 23, 2014 Tomas Dapkus 0

Daniel Fried, coordinator for sanctions policy at the US State Department, says that it will take time before the sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and the European Union begin showing tangible results, but they undoubtedly will. […]

Number of schoolchildren down in Lithuania

August 23, 2014 BNS 0

28,000 first-graders will start schooling this September in Lithuania, about 1,000 more than last year, although the overall number of schoolchildren will go down, according to figures from the country’s Ministry of Education and Science. […]

Rail Baltica deal will not be signed before September

August 22, 2014 BNS 0

The Baltic countries will not sign a shareholders’ agreement for RB Rail, their joint venture for the European-standard gauge railway project Rail Baltica, in the summer, as expected, because some procedures have not yet been completed, Lithuanian Transport Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius said. […]

Lithuania's embassy in London. Photo by MFA

Lithuanian embassy in London accredited to Ethiopia

August 22, 2014 the Lithuania Tribune 0

On Thursday, Lithuanian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Asta Skaisgirytė-Liauskienė presented her letter of credence to the President of Ethiopia, H.E. Mr Mulatu Teshome, Lithuanian Embassy to the UK informs. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister in Ukraine: Russian convoy is “a provocation”

August 22, 2014 BNS 0

The entry of a Russian convoy into the territory of Ukraine is a provocation and a gross violation of international law, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said after meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev on Friday. […]

Calculations of Russia’s import embargo: EU set to lose EUR 5 billion per year

August 22, 2014 ELTA EN 0

According to calculations carried out by the Netherlands-based ING Group, restrictions imposed by Russia on food imports from the European Union may cost the EU USD 6.7 billion (EUR 5.0 billion) per year, RBC Daily reports. […]

Lithuanian defence minister meets with NATO and UN representatives in Afghanistan

August 22, 2014 the Lithuania Tribune 0

During his trip to Afghanistan, Lithuania’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas on Thursday met with Ambassador Maurits Jochems, NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. (USA), Commander ISAF, and Jan Kubis, the Special Representative for Afghanistan and the Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the Ministry of National Defence said. […]