The military attacks in Ukraine that claim civilian lives should be deemed terrorist attacks, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says, adding that the European Union (EU) should tighten its sanctions on Russia following the latest attacks in Donetsk and Mariupol. […]
21 January 2015 marks an official launch of the Baltic Highway, a modern data transmission network, connecting Tallinn (Estonia) and Frankfurt (Germany) via Riga (Latvia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Warsaw (Poland) and Berlin (Germany). The 3,000km optical fiber network is distinguished for its reliability, low 35 milliseconds latency, capacity of 100G per channel and 9.6 Tbit/s total throughput. […]
There’s evidence confirming that Russia is taking direct part in the ongoing military operation in eastern Ukraine, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday. […]
President Barack Obama, during his State of the Union address to the American Congress on Tuesday night, spoke about the situation in Ukraine. He advocated the use of diplomacy to uphold the principle that bigger nations cannot bully the small. […]
Western powers are less fearful of Putin than of the chaos and unpredictability that the massive nuclear country might sink into once he is gone, says Janusz Bugajski, senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]
Russia has refused entry to a delegation led by Lithuanian member of the European Parliament (EP) Gabrielius Landsbergis, shows a copy of a letter received by BNS. The delegation was planning to go to Moscow in the end of January. […]
Russia‘s Education and Science Ministry wants to be informed about the meetings of university students with the staff of the European Union (EU) Mission to Russia, which is headed by Lithuania’s former foreign minister Vygaudas Ušackas, Russian media said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius says that he does not believe that the European Union (EU) will ever recognize the annexation of the Crimean peninsula in exchange for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. […]
Baltic Assembly President Giedrė Purvaneckienė on Tuesday pinpointed practical priorities of the Baltic countries’ inter-parliamentary cooperation. […]
Chief foreign policy advisor to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Jovita Neliupšienė, says that Russia‘s direct involvement in conflict in the Donbass region is becoming more and more obvious, while the current ceasefire is only relative. […]
A visit of the Swedish royal family is planned in Lithuania in the coming autumn. According to Jovita Neliupšienė, chief adviser to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on foreign policy issues, visits of the Icelandic and Baltic presidents are also planned this year. […]
On 1 January 2015, Lithuania took over the Presidency of the Baltic Assembly. This year, the Seimas plans to hold 14 international events, with the majority of them hosted by the Seimas in Vilnius and four of them held in Kaunas, Klaipėda, Palanga and Šiauliai, the press service of the Lithuanian Parliament said. […]
Estonian and Lithuanian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are planning to focus more on innovations in 2015, while the number of Latvian SMEs that are planning to invest in innovations has contracted by 9 percent, according to a study conducted by SEB Baltic. […]
Russia‘s former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an ardent critic of President Vladimir Putin, may play a special role in the change of the Russian regime, therefore, Lithuania should not criticize his statements regardless of the split in positions, says Lithuania’s opposition leader and former PM, Andrius Kubilius. […]
The leader of the opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, former prime minister Andrius Kubilius, is going to Ukraine this week to join a group of experts for a discussion on economic reforms. […]
Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov hopes that Russia‘s incumbent President Vladimir Putin will cede power peacefully through elections, as the country’s economy is heading for a recession. […]
The West should revise the sanctions for Russia, as they have rallied the Russian support to the Kremlin, Russia’s former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an ardent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said in Vilnius. […]
During the annexation of Crimea, Russia‘s President Vladimir Putin laid “philosophical foundation” for invasion of any country with a Russian-speaking community, said well-known Russian political scientist and publicist Andrey Piontkovsky in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
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