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Are the Baltic states at risk of Russian aggression?

April 16, 2015 Agnia Grigas 0

As tensions are brewing between Russia and the West, the three tiny states on the coast of the Baltic Sea – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – seem to be at the epicentre of this imminent showdown. […]

Estonians want to use Klaipėda’s future LNG distribution station

April 15, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Estonian company JetGas has expressed interest to use Lithuania’s future liquefied natural gas (LNG) distribution station which will be constructed in Klaipėda. […]

Norwegian Embassy hires PR firm to tackle bad press in Lithuania

April 14, 2015 BNS 0

Following bad press that Norway‘s child welfare services received in Lithuania for restricting parenting rights of a Lithuanian mother, the country’s embassy in Vilnius has hired a public relations agency to improve the country’s image. […]

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

April 13, 2015 ELTA EN 0

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. […]

Pentagon warns Russia about consequences of incident over Baltic Sea

April 13, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The United States Department of Defense says that actions of Russia‘s air forces when their pilot intercepted an American reconnaissance plane RC-135U over the Baltic Sea on 7 April were unsafe and unprofessional. […]

Lithuanian president: Estonia provides example on strengthening military capabilities

April 12, 2015 ELTA EN 0

During Friday’s meeting with Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė stressed that regional security is a common interest of both Lithuania and Estonia. […]

Latvia and Estonia rule out supplying weapons to Ukraine

April 10, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Heads of Latvian and Estonian governments say their support to Ukraine will be limited to humanitarian and expertise assistance and, therefore, they will not send lethal weapons to Ukraine in the nearest future. […]

Lithuanian and Latvian PMs criticize Greek Tsipras’ Moscow trip

April 10, 2015 BNS 0

The prime ministers of Lithuania and Latvia on Friday criticized Greek PM Alexis Tsipras‘ visit to Moscow where he spoke against the European Union‘s (EU) sanctions for Russia. […]

Estonia and Latvia still waiting for profitability assessment of Lithuanian NPP

April 10, 2015 ELTA EN 0

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. […]

Latvia becomes major country of origin for tobacco smuggling into Lithuania

April 10, 2015 BNS 0

Continued flows of cigarettes smuggling into Lithuania have highlighted a new tendency – increasing amounts of tobacco enter the country from the European Union’s (EU) member-state Latvia rather than the Russian Kaliningrad region or Belarus, as the case was before, the Lietuvos Žinios daily said. […]

Baltic PMs meeting in Vilnius to discuss security and energy

April 10, 2015 BNS 0

Prime ministers of the three Baltic states are holding an informal meeting in Vilnius on Friday on the situation in Ukraine and joint energy and transport projects. […]

Google, Swedbank and Maxima among most popular brands in Baltics

April 9, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The most popular brand in the Baltic states is the on-line search engine Google, according to a research project carried by TNS Emor. […]

Most Russians want stability, not reforms, poll suggests

April 9, 2015 ELTA EN 0

“Ensuring stability rather than carrying out reforms,” a majority of respondents said during a public opinion survey conducted by the Public Opinion Fund (FOM) with the aim to find out what the population thought about the main task of the Russian authorities. […]

Lithuanian-owned Maxima largest employer in Latvia

April 8, 2015 ELTA EN 0

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. […]

Laimdota Straujuma, Algirdas Butkevičius

Baltic PMs to meet in Vilnius to discuss security and energy

April 8, 2015 ELTA EN 0

In order to discuss matters related to security, energy and transportation, the prime ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will meet in Vilnius on Friday for informal talks. […]

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

April 8, 2015 DELFI EN 0

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. […]