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Russian journalists and NGOs are used to monitor opposition, Lithuanian agency says

According to Lithuanian State Security Department‘s (VSD) activity report for 2014, Russia‘s intelligence services are using Russian journalists and representatives of non-governmental organisations to spy on and discredit the Russian opposition. Journalists and representatives of NGOs are also monitoring visits of the Kremlin’s critics to Lithuania. […]

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Estonia and Latvia still waiting for profitability assessment of Lithuanian NPP

The prime ministers of Latvia and Estonia, who are on a visit to Lithuania on Friday, have emphasised that their countries will participate in Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project if it generates a return on investment. […]

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Lithuanian-owned Maxima largest employer in Latvia

The largest employer in Latvia last year was supermarket chain Maxima Latvija, which employed approximately 9,150 people, according to information from the State Revenue Service. […]

Sergei Shoigu, Vladimir Putin
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Putin’s week-long disappearance: checking if Russia can fight two and a half wars at once

Russia is successfully implementing military reform whose purpose is to have the capability to fight two and a half military conflicts concurrently. That is, the Russian armed forces must be able to fight two of any type of military conflict and at the same time participate in a peacekeeping operation alone or together with international forces using only standby military capabilities. […]

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Andreas Umland: New social deal in Russia is “No serious political participation, but Bread and Circuses”

Andreas Umland, German political scientist and senior research fellow at Kiev-based Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, speaks about Russian domestic politics, the “Ukraine crisis” and what the European Union can do about it. […]