To betray Ukraine would mean “to betray ourselves”, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said during a presidential debate at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Friday reiterated his call on Latvia to implement the EU’s third energy package and liberalize its gas market. […]
The confrontation between the Western world and Russia may lead to “bigger and deeper military dispute,” the European Union‘s (EU) Ambassador in Moscow Vygaudas Ušackas of Lithuania has said. […]
Lithuania has praised Belarus, saying its position on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is “very positive” as well as Minsk’s decision not to join Moscow’s sanctions against EU member states. Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrius Krivas expressed the position after his visit to Minsk. […]
Baltic small- and medium-scale companies stick to more moderate financial growth plans for 2015. However, despite the current geopolitical tensions, they see further growth opportunities. […]
An appeal, by 142 German-speaking experts on Eastern Europe, calls for a reality-based and not illusions-guided Russia policy. […]
Russia is trying to sow discord between the Baltic countries and other European Union (EU) Member States by halting plans to resume imports of pork from selected Western European countries, political scientist Dovilė Jakniūnaitė believes. […]
On Friday, the Committee on Economics, Energy and Innovations of the Baltic Assembly (BA) held a sitting at the Seimas to discuss transport and infrastructure projects, further cooperation of Baltic and Nordic countries in energy security, energy supply and economy. […]
Latvia‘s Transport Minister Anrijs Matiss (Unity) has invited Finland to take active part in implementation of the standard-gauge railroad Rail Baltica project and in the work of the Rail Baltica joint venture, noting the project’s importance for the entire Nordic-Baltic region, LETA learned from the Transport Ministry. […]
It is tempting to slip into a spiral of sensationalism when describing the concurrent trends in Belarus’s foreign relations and national aspirations, even though—if history is any guide—these trends may be reversed as abruptly as they started. So far, however, tensions have been on the rise along Belarus’s eastern flank; whereas, there has been steady improvement in Belarus’s relations with the West. According to the assessment of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, this has been the case since the very beginning of 2014. […]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has extended sanctions against Russia until a plenary session in April. The sanctions include suspension of voting rights, participation in standing committees and monitoring of elections as part of PACE delegations. […]
Ukraine hopes for the European Union‘s unity in retaining and tightening sanctions against Russia and providing economic, political and military support, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, currently in Ukraine, said on Wednesday night. […]
Russia should take responsibility for the Mariupol attack that claimed civilian lives, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. […]
Latvian President Andris Berzins says it is impossible for him to attend the 9 May “victory day” celebrations in Moscow. […]
Russian people are living in an alternative reality created for them by President Vladimir Putin, one completely disconnected from the rest of the world, says German political scientist Andreas Umland, senior research fellow, at Kyiv-based Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation. […]
Lithuanian MEP Petras Auštrevičius has called for stripping Russia of the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup and move it to some other country, or otherwise boycott the championship. […]
Russia’s persistent support to separatists has led to the Mariupol tragedy when around 30 civilians were killed and over 90 were injured when the Ukrainian city came under a rocket attack, Lithuanian Ambassador to the United Nations Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė said on Monday. […]
Alexander Udaltsov, the Russian Ambassador to Lithuania, has released a public letter, congratulating the country on “the 70th anniversary of Lithuania’s liberation from the Germans-fascists”. The ambassador also makes references to topical issues of today, like the conflict in Ukraine, that are designed to provoke controversy, a Lithuanian political observer says. […]
The United Nations (UN) Security Council is holding a meeting on Monday at Lithuania’s request to discuss the situation in Ukraine. […]
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