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Estonian Air accuses airBaltic of unfair competition
Estonia‘s airline Estonian Air is accusing the Latvian national airline airBaltic of unfair competition, according to the Estonian daily Postimees. […]
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Kaunas Jazz concerts planned in Tallinn this year
Kaunas Jazz festival, which will take place for the 25th time this year, will visit the Estonian capital Tallinn, in addition to the usual venues in Kaunas and Vilnius. Concerts are also planned in Birštonas and Vilkaviškis, both towns in southern Lithuania. […]
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Former Lithuanian PM invited to join Ukrainian president’s reform advisers team
Lithuania’s former prime minister Andrius Kubilius has been invited to join the council of foreign advisers set up by Ukraine‘s President Petro Poroshenko to help implement reforms in the country. […]
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One professional Russian troll tells all
More and more, posts and commentaries on the Internet in Russia and even abroad are generated by professional trolls, many of whom receive a higher-than-average salary for perpetuating a pro-Kremlin dialogue online Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty web site RFERL.ORG reported. […]
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Weapons flood into Putin’s European arms depot
While the world watched Russia’s North Fleet with trepidation as it launched surprise exercises near the Arctic Circle last week, Vladimir Putin has quietly been arming another area inside Europe’s borders: Kaliningrad, the Russian seaport city in a region sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, with convenient access to the Baltic Sea. Vessels from Russia’s Baltic Fleet have delivered fighter jets and Iskander missile launchers to the former German city, from where missiles could reach not just to Warsaw and Vilnius but Germany as well, Elisabeth Braw writes in the Newsweek magazine. […]
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Responding to Kremlin Propaganda in the Baltics
How to counter Vladimir Putin’s propaganda? The EU is trying to decide on a strategy. Meanwhile—you read it here first—the Nordic and Baltics states are steaming ahead with a very concrete plan that will soon offer Russian-language television in the Baltic states, where Russian minorities today almost exclusively watch Kremlin-directed TV. Call it Nordic noir versus the Kremlin, Elizabeth Braw writes in the World Affairs magazine. […]
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Lithuania may contribute funds to new Chernobyl cover
Lithuania may contribute some funds to a new protective cover to be built over the destroyed fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. […]
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Ukraine would not withstand oligarchic war – expert in Vilnius
Ukraine would not withstand “an internal war among oligarchs,” Ukrainian political scientist Oleksandr Zadorozhny said in Vilnius on March 26. […]
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Wallenberg ‘impressed’ by Lithuania’s ability to switch to new markets
Swedish investor Marc Wallenberg has said that he is impressed by Lithuania’s ability to swiftly re-orientate itself to new markets and that he sees prospects for long-term cooperation with the country. […]
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Berzins does not agree with Grybauskaitė’s statement that Russia is a “terrorist state”
Latvian President Andris Berzins does not agree with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s repeated statement that Russia is a terrorist state. […]
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Seimas supports territorial integrity of Georgia
The Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs has adopted a statement on the annexation by Russia of Georgia‘s regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali. […]
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Seimas ratifies agreement on establishing Lithuania-Poland-Ukraine Brigade
The Seimas has ratified the agreement of the Governments of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine on establishing a joint military unit. All 73 members of Parliament attending a plenary session voted unanimously. […]
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Christopher Walker: Democratic media weakening while Kremlin perfects its propaganda
Over the last decade, Russia has had plenty of time and resources to test and perfect its propaganda machine, which has achieved an unprecedented level of maturity, while Western democratic media has been in decline, says Christopher Walker, executive director of the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies. […]
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Estonians ask what makes Lithuania more attractive to foreign investors
Last year, Lithuania attracted 29 foreign companies. In the next three years the country should have about 2,000 additional jobs thanks to these new investors. A recent report by the “Kapital” program, broadcast on Estonian national television, investigated what Lithuania has that Estonia doesn’t, Invest Lithuania reported. […]
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Lithuania holds informal meeting of UN on situation in Crimea, eastern Ukraine
At the United Nations – first-hand testimonies on violations of human rights in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. On 19 March, the Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations held an informal meeting of members of the Security Council on the situation in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. According to Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, we see a rapidly deteriorating situation and grave violations of human rights a year after the illegal annexation of Crimea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]
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Russia and China boycott Lithuania-organized UN meeting on Crimea
Russia, China, Venezuela and Angola ignored the recent informal UN Security Council meeting, organized by Lithuania, on the human rights situation in Crimea which was annexed by Russia a year ago. […]
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EU ambassador to Moscow: “I’m not in the business of prophecies”
The task of a diplomat is to maintain contacts with the authorities and society leaders, so dribbling basketball with the administration chief of the Russian president, playing buskashi with Afghans in Kabul – engaging in what one might call “sport diplomacy” – is part of the job. While such informal contacts might provide a wealth of insights into the unofficial workings of a foreign country, Vygaudas Ušackas, the EU Delegation chief in Russia, admits he is not “in the business of prophecies” to tell how long the Russian-Ukrainian conflict can last. […]
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Putin’s Russia: What did Nemtsov’s assassination reveal about the current regime?
Assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was a shocking wake-up call for many all over the globe. Circumstances were more than eloquent – bullets hit Nemtsov right in front of Kremlin and merely one day before the planned protest march. […]
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Moldova’s gives highest state award to President Grybauskaitė
President of Moldova Nicolae Timofti has signed a decree awarding the Order of the Republic (Ordinul Republicii) to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]