Valdas Adamkus
Foreign affairs

Hints that Polish-Lithuanian relations may improve from Polish president Andrzej Duda

When former President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus read a report at a conference in Warsaw last week called Sovereignty, Solidarity and Security: Lech Kaczynski and Central-Eastern Europe, he also had the chance to speak with the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda. […]

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Foreign affairs

Surprisingly musical Christmas wishes from the Embassy of Sweden in Vilnius

The Embassy of Sweden in Vilnius sent out an unusual and musical Christmas greeting this year. When the recipients received an email from the embassy they were invited to click on a picture of the entire embassy staff in Christmas hats. The email then led them to the festive video in which the staff bellow out ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ in Swedish, English and Lithuanian. […]

Vladimir Putin
Foreign affairs

Putin admits to deploying Russian military specialists in Ukraine

Russian president Vladimir Putin has repeatedly denied the presence of Russian troops in Ukraine, but that changed today at a nationally televised press conference in Moscow where Putin confirmed that Russian military specialists had been sent to support Crimean separatists. […]

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Foreign affairs

How Moscow’s money funds propaganda in Lithuania

The State Security Department has showed to the Parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee the schemes by which money for propaganda comes from Moscow to Lithuania. […]

Linas Linkevičius
Foreign affairs

Foreign Minister Linkevičius on response to Russian aggression: Inaction itself can be provocative

Lithuania and other countries in the Eastern block are looking for a clear and decisive message of support from the United States as Russian President Vladimir Putin tests NATO’s decisiveness and tries to fill the “gaps of influence” created by the West’s inability to protect international law and its own interests, said Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius in an interview with The Washington Times on Tuesday. […]

Foreign affairs

Lithuania will deploy up to 40 soldiers to Mali

Responding to France‘s request for assistance, Lithuania is going to deploy up to 40 soldiers to Mali. The number has been approved at Friday’s meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs. […]