Foreign affairs
Year: 2015
Defence
NATO Military Committee agrees to set up military staffs in Lithuania and five other countries
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. […]
Economy
Rise in services prices in Lithuania not due to euro, finance minister insists
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. […]
Uncategorized
3,000km optical fiber network connects Eastern and Western Europe
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. […]
Opinion
Edward Lucas: Snow Meeting is Davos for people who know what is going on
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). […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania expects to open OECD accession talks this year
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. […]
Economy
Energy
Hitachi still interested in nuclear plant in Lithuania, Grybauskaitė says
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
Opinion: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to identify with Putin II
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. […]
Uncategorized
President Grybauskaitė: Russia is engaging in “territorial aggression” in Ukraine
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. […]
Economy
Nasdaq creates new technology and business support competence center in Vilnius
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. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian UN ambassador: Russia wants to legitimize territorial gains in Ukraine
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. […]
Energy
LNG terminal is properly guarded, Lithuanian interior minister reassures
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
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. […]
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US President Obama addresses Ukrainian conflict in State of the Union Address
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. […]
European Union
EU’s Federica Mogherini discusses Ukraine and security with John Kerry.
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. […]
Energy
Lithuanian president takes down Russian deputy PM in Davos: This is why our terminal is called Independence
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. […]
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American analyst Janusz Bugajski: There are things in Russia that West fear more than Putin
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). […]
Defence
Canada allocates EUR 715,000 to NATO centre in Vilnius
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. […]
Sports
Tennis: K.A elimination for Berankis
Ričardas Berankis was unable to match South African Kevin Anderson in today’s Australian Open, bowing out of his second round affair in straight sets 6-2 6-2 7(7)-6(3). […]