January 2015 - Page 7 of 22 - the Lithuania Tribune

British rail companies interested in Rail Baltica project

January 23, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

UK rail companies working in international projects and providing rail infrastructure services such as planning, construction and management of innovative and sustainable railways met the representatives of the Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications. During the meeting, the companies had the possibility to learn more about Lithuania’s strategic project Rail Baltica 2 and other rail projects implemented in the country, the Ministry of Transport and Communication said. […]

Lithuania pledges help to Ukraine’s economy

January 23, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania will help Ukraine boost the country’s exports, improve public procurement system and strengthen the energy sector. […]

NATO Military Committee agrees to set up military staffs in Lithuania and five other countries

January 23, 2015 BNS 0

NATO‘s Military Committee on Thursday gave a green light to the establishment of international military staffs in Lithuania and five other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, and will submit the proposal to defence ministers, Lithuania’s Chief of Defense Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas confirmed to BNS. […]

Rise in services prices in Lithuania not due to euro, finance minister insists

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

An increase in services prices in Lithuania last year was due to growing wages rather than to euro adoption, Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius said on Thursday. […]

Duomenų perdavimo magistralė "Baltic Highway"

3,000km optical fiber network connects Eastern and Western Europe

January 22, 2015 Invest Lithuania 0

21 January 2015 marks an official launch of the Baltic Highway, a modern data transmission network, connecting Tallinn (Estonia) and Frankfurt (Germany) via Riga (Latvia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Warsaw (Poland) and Berlin (Germany). The 3,000km optical fiber network is distinguished for its reliability, low 35 milliseconds latency, capacity of 100G per channel and 9.6 Tbit/s total throughput. […]

Edward Lucas: Snow Meeting is Davos for people who know what is going on

January 22, 2015 Edward Lucas 0

The Snow Meeting is a highlight of the European security calendar. It is like Davos, except that it is smaller and full of people who really know what is going on (Davos is full of people who would like to know what is going on). […]

Lithuania expects to open OECD accession talks this year

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania expects to receive an invitation to open accession negotiations with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) this year , the Lithuanian president’s press office said on Thursday. […]

Google interested in Lithuania and is looking for staff

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

US Internet giant Google is interested in Lithuania, but it would not disclose any specific plans in the country. […]

Hitachi still interested in nuclear plant in Lithuania, Grybauskaitė says

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has met the Hitachi executive in Davos and says the Japanese energy company is still interested in the Visaginas nuclear power plant project in Lithuania and investments into Lithuania’s other economic sectors. […]

Opinion: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to identify with Putin II

January 22, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. […]

President Grybauskaitė: Russia is engaging in “territorial aggression” in Ukraine

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

There’s evidence confirming that Russia is taking direct part in the ongoing military operation in eastern Ukraine, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday. […]

Nasdaq creates new technology and business support competence center in Vilnius

January 22, 2015 Invest Lithuania 0

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) announces that the world leading operator of exchanges and provider of capital markets technology, will create a new technology and business support competence center in Vilnius. […]

Lithuanian UN ambassador: Russia wants to legitimize territorial gains in Ukraine

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian’s Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė on Wednesday accused Russia of seeking to legitimize its territorial gains in Ukraine, achieved by separatists after an official truce. […]

LNG terminal is properly guarded, Lithuanian interior minister reassures

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

The liquefied natural gas terminal in Lithuania’s western port of Klaipėda is properly guarded, the country’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis and the port’s chief said on Wednesday. […]

Brzezinski: Putin could seize Baltics in “literally” one day

January 22, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The United States and its allies should deploy troops to Baltic states to deter Russia from staging a possible incursion in those countries, former presidential national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, told lawmakers Wednesday, AFP reports. […]

President Barack Obama. Photo Pete Souza, Official White House Photographer

US President Obama addresses Ukrainian conflict in State of the Union Address

January 22, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

President Barack Obama, during his State of the Union address to the American Congress on Tuesday night, spoke about the situation in Ukraine. He advocated the use of diplomacy to uphold the principle that bigger nations cannot bully the small. […]

Federica Mogherini, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and US Secretary of State, John Kerry Photo Ludo Segers

EU’s Federica Mogherini discusses Ukraine and security with John Kerry.

January 22, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

On Wednesday, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, met with US Secretary of State, John Kerry. The two discussed a number of issues during a luncheon meeting, in particular the situation in Ukraine, the recent wave of terrorist violence in France and other EU countries, energy independence, and other security issues. […]

Lithuanian president takes down Russian deputy PM in Davos: This is why our terminal is called Independence

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday accused Russia‘s gas giant Gazprom of using gas for political pressure after Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said in a discussion in Davos that alternatives to Russian gas would be more expensive for Europe. […]

American analyst Janusz Bugajski: There are things in Russia that West fear more than Putin

January 22, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Western powers are less fearful of Putin than of the chaos and unpredictability that the massive nuclear country might sink into once he is gone, says Janusz Bugajski, senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]

Canada allocates EUR 715,000 to NATO centre in Vilnius

January 21, 2015 BNS 0

Canada on Tuesday allocated EUR 715,000 to the Vilnius-based NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Wednesday. […]