It is crucial for the Baltic states to develop a joint mid-range air-defence system, counter hybrid threats and strengthen regional cooperation, Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said on Wednesday after meeting with his new Latvian counterpart, Raimonds Bergmanis, in Vilnius. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius says that the West is not responding sufficiently to the placement of border markers with Georgia, this way approaching the Tbilisi-controlled territory even more, and calls for more pressure on the Russian Federation. […]
The Baltic states will be Russia‘s next target after Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to test NATO, Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia and now the governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, said in an interview on Tuesday. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says he is not convinced by statements of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine about unilateral withdrawal of certain weaponry. […]
Estonian Tallink’s majority owner Infortar examined ways to acquire the Lithuanian airline Air Lituanica, but the transaction did not go through, Aripaev Online reports. […]
“I would compare Putin to the Roman leaders in the time of Roman Empire’s agony. While Caesar’s Rome was the Rome of ascendancy, Putin’s Rome is the one of decay. The regime in Russia shows all signs of agony,” says Kremlinologist Lilia Shevtsova. […]
Lithuania supports a proposal to set up a UN tribunal to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysian Airlines passenger plane over Ukraine, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said on Friday. […]
Many Lithuanians follow closely developments in Kiev, where Aivaras Abromavičius, a 39-year-old Vilnius-born businessman, has been put in charge of Ukraine‘s ministry of economy and trade. He is one of several foreigners invited by Ukraine’s current leadership who decided it takes an outsider to tackle corruption and inefficiency that plagues the country’s economy. […]
During a busy day in Washington, the Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk received plenty of support from the US Administration, including President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and US Secretary for Commerce Penny Pritzker. […]
During their meeting in Vilnius Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis have discussed, among other things, collective armaments purchase, in particular, jointly acquiring medium-range air defence systems. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is on Monday meeting with the President of Latvia, Raimonds Vejonis, who is in Lithuania on an official visit. […]
Friday the European Commission‘s record EUR 13.1 billion investment plan for the transport sector came closer to reality, after EU Member States approved the list of projects to receive funding under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), which includes the Rail Baltica high-speed rail project, the European Commission informs. […]
Latvia‘s new President Raimonds Vejonis will pay a working visit to Lithuania on 13 July. This will be the first visit of the new leader of the neighbouring country to Lithuania and his second foreign trip after he took the presidential oath. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Russia is not interested in escalating the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine, but the Kremlin finds it difficult to withdraw from the conflict without losing face on the international arena and inside the country. […]
The European Union does not need a new Nord Stream gas pipeline that Russia‘s gas behemoth Gazprom is planning to build, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said, adding that the project will do great harm to Ukraine. […]
Invited by Russian ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov to visit Crimea, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius hit back by saying that he would wait for the invitation from Ukraine. […]
Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas calls Russian media reports of a probe allegedly launched in Russia into the recognition of the Baltic states’ independence in 1991 “propaganda”. […]
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