Russia has announced it will conduct its own investigation into the attempted coup of January 13, 1991, when Soviet armed forces organized an assault against peaceful protesters in Vilnius. The move is not conductive to effective cooperation and will be used as a propaganda tool, the Lithuanian government believes. […]
Lithuanian-descent US Senator Dick Durbin is accompanying President Barack Obama and his family on their historic visit to Cuba. […]
Russian statements about maneuvers in Syria should be viewed with caution, says Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, adding that countries should wait for actions to prove them. […]
Russia’s decision to withdraw the majority of its forces from Syria, announced on Monday by Vladimir Putin, has analysts questioning what the rationale behind the move was. Was this practice for Putin before another attack in Ukraine or the Baltic states, or was it an even more crushing defeat than what the Soviet Union experienced in Afghanistan? […]
Lithuania’s economy is stable and will grow in the future, the secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in Vilnius on Monday. […]
As part of the European Union‘s attempt to help solve the migrant and refugee crisis, Lithuania plans to provide Turkey, which has pledged to accept illegal immigrants traveling to Greece, with €5.2 million. […]
The European Humanities University (EHU), a Vilnius-based Belarusian school in exile, is holding a donors’ conference on Thursday to discuss the university’s finances and future role. […]
Journalists of the Russian TV channel Rossiya who tried to get into a Russian opposition forum in Lithuania have been blacklisted and asked to leave the country, the State Security Department said. […]
At a press conference in Trakai following the annual Russian opposition forum, Lithuanian commentators shared their insights into the results of this year’s discussions. The annual forum invites Russian intellectuals, public figures, journalists and other individuals to discuss Russia’s situation, its future and its relationship with the West. […]
About 50 people gathered outside the Russian Embassy in Vilnius at noon on Wednesday, calling for the release of Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who is continuing her hunger strike in protest of the court’s proceedings. […]
European Council President Donald Tusk‘s statements that the days of illegal immigration to Europe were over was a very bold claim according to political scientist Vytis Jurkonis. […]
In a city as big as Berlin traffic violations are to be expected. Berliners are particularly annoyed, however, when traffic violations go unpunished, that is, when they are committed by diplomatic staff of foreign embassies in Berlin. Lithuanian diplomats are among the top-ten violators of traffic rules. […]
If Republican frontrunner Donald Trump secured his party’s nomination in the US presidential election and eventually won the presidency, he would shun American involvement in Europe, including the defence of the Baltic States, according to a US foreign policy expert. […]
US President Barack Obama has announced that the US will extend its sanctions against Russia for another year. The sanctions were initially implemented in March of 2014 response to the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister of State Yosuke Takagi on using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. […]
Lithuania and Slovenia agree that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline Russia plans to build would shatter the European Union‘s unity and distort competition on the European gas market, the Lithuanian President’s Office says. […]
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