The Baltics attracted a total of 101 new investment projects in 2014, which was nine percent more than the previous year, according to Ernst&Young’s annual European Attractiveness Survey 2015. […]
Lithuania is against exceptions for Russia‘s representatives on Europe’s blacklist, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday after Russian State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin was not allowed to attend the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly in Helsinki, sparking Russia’s anger. […]
Member of the Russian Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky, notorious for his eccentric and chauvinistic statements, is calling for a referendum to be organized in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia where people would be offered to vote for the countries to be included in the Russian Federation. Zhirinovsky openly announced that the referendum is not an attempt to allow the residents to exercise their democratic rights to voice their wishes, but to give them the opportunity to “agree becoming part of Russia again”. […]
Russia‘s Prosecutor General’s Office has opened an investigation into the legitimacy of the independence of the Baltic states. The office is to look into whether a decision, made by the State Council of the USSR in 1991, to recognize the three breakaway states as independent nations was legal, newsru.com reports. […]
Europe’s new front-line states are the Nordic countries, Baltic countries, plus Poland, which share a common concern about a “revisionist and rapidly-rearming Russia”, according to the Baltic Sea Security Report by the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]
Only Russia can stop the current arms race with NATO as it is the one carrying out aggressive policies, raising its military budget and militarizing its economy, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says. […]
The US will pre-position heavy weapons, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and artillery in central and eastern Europe for the first time, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said on Tuesday, AFP reports. […]
Lithuania has not made any decisions about supplying weaponry to Ukraine, says the country’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius. […]
The pacifism of European societies and traditional romance between Russia and Germany are what muffle Europe’s resolution to give a firm response to Russia’s policies in Ukraine, says Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, the head of international news desk at the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in an interview to DELFI. […]
The European Union (EU) has nothing to do with recent seizures of Russia‘s assets abroad and Russia’s countermeasures regarding the situation must be legal, said EU’s Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas on Friday to Russian radio station Kommersant FM. […]
Georgia is disappointed with the stalling visa-free talks with the European Union (EU); however, it is fully capable of achieving the objective before the end of this year, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
I decided to dedicate one more essay in the “Putin’s Russia” series to Russian oligarchs because of one piece of news that attracted much less attention in Lithuania and internationally than it warranted: the former foreign minister of Sweden and one of the fiercest critics of President Valdimir Putin, Carl Bildt, accepted a consulting job at LetterOne, a Luxembourg-based company set up and run by Russian oligarchs. […]
American media recently reported that the United States was planning to deploy heavy weaponry in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, including Lithuania. Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius and Minister of Defence Juozas Olekas have confirmed that they are familiar with the plans. Will the move further escalate tensions with Russia? Laisvoji Banga radio talks to political scientist Kęstutis Girnius of Vilnius University. […]
Despite years of lasting loss-making, Estonia‘s airline Estonian Air and Latvia‘s AirBaltic keep on flying passengers to different destinations all over the world. Smart management and support from the Latvian government allowed the latter to cross into the black. Meanwhile in Lithuania, a second airline in less than a decade was recently brought down by insolvency. Why did this happen, and does Lithuania need a national airline at all? […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s press secretary, Dmitri Peskov, said on Monday that Moscow was ready for talks with the Baltic states. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius participated in the 6th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) in Jurmala, Latvia. He met with his Latvian counterpart Laimdota Straujuma to discuss intergovernmental cooperation and bilateral and multilateral meetings that are planned to be held in Lithuania. […]
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