The military attacks in Ukraine that claim civilian lives should be deemed terrorist attacks, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says, adding that the European Union (EU) should tighten its sanctions on Russia following the latest attacks in Donetsk and Mariupol. […]
Last year, a total of 3.8 million passengers used the services of Lithuania’s three airports in Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga, or 9.1 percent more than in 2013. […]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania strongly condemns increased Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. […]
In December 2014 only every third Lithuanian claimed that the situation in the country has been improving. Compared with November 2014, the number of optimists decreased by 6 percent. According to sociologist and lecturer of Vilnius University, Professor Romas Lazutka, the outburst of pessimism at the end of the year was related to the change of national currency and the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. […]
The Baltic countries still have no final answer to the question of whether the multi-billion-euro project for building a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas, in eastern Lithuania, would be sufficiently competitive, Lithuanian Deputy Energy Minister Aleksandras Spruogis said on Friday, adding that the partners remain interested in the project. […]
Lithuania officially ended over six-month long period of command of NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group ONE (SNMCMG1). On January 22, Commander Giedrius Premeneckas (Lithuanian Navy) handed over command of SNMCMG1 to Commander Peter A.J. Bergen Henegouwen (Royal Netherlands Navy) at Den Helder naval base of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
“The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress—and in the American body politic writ large—to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense.” That’s Secretary of Defense Bob Gates on his way out of office, back in 2011. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė offered the condolences of the Lithuanian people and her personal sympathy to Saudi Arabia‘s King Salman bin Abdulaziz on the passing of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the presidential press service said. […]
Lithuania’s Defense Minister Juozas Olekas on Friday met with Ukrainian soldiers undergoing treatment in the southern resort of Druskininkai, the ministry said. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has proposed changes that would ban issuing residency permits to foreigners who are suspected of or charged with crimes, as well as put the Police Department, the State Border Guard Service and the State Security Department under the obligation of submitting conclusions about applicants to the Migration Department within 14 days. […]
International relations expert Raimundas Lopata says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently engaging in the classic chicken game with the West. […]
An international delegation of UNESCO experts was on a visit in the Lithuanian Curonian Spit for a few days this week to check how the protected site is managed. The delegation organized the inspection in response to complaint from Russia, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
The Liberal Movement of Lithuania can boast its most impressive and sustainable rating leap, say political experts referring to sociological research. […]
NATO decision to station an international military staff in Lithuania will contribute to security of both the country and the rest of the region, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
Administration of Lithuania’s northern city of Šiauliai has banned Avia Solutions Group from repairing airplanes in the near-by Zokniai airport, which accommodates NATO fighter-jets performing the Baltic air policing mission. […]
Mikhail Khodorkovsky‘s speech in Vilnius last week drew considerable controversy, with some saying his suggestions of easing economic sanctions on Russia played right into Vladimir Putin‘s interests, while others noting Khodorkovsky’s sober and measured reasoning. The following is a full transcript of Khodorkovsky’s address, translated from Russian by Katerina Sinkevičienė. […]
The plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to be held in Strasbourg on 26–30 January will address the question of whether to approve the credentials of the Russian delegation to be renewed in 2015 at the expiry of the sanctions applied by the PACE against the Russian delegation because of the annexation of Crimea and the escalation of military tensions in eastern Ukraine. […]
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