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UN Security Council meeting to discuss Ukraine at Lithuania’s request

January 26, 2015 BNS 0

The United Nations (UN) Security Council is holding a meeting on Monday at Lithuania’s request to discuss the situation in Ukraine. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister: EU should tighten sanctions on Russia after military raids in Ukraine

January 25, 2015 BNS 0

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. […]

Duomenų perdavimo magistralė "Baltic Highway"

3,000km optical fiber network connects Eastern and Western Europe

January 22, 2015 Invest Lithuania 0

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. […]

President Grybauskaitė: Russia is engaging in “territorial aggression” in Ukraine

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

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. Photo Pete Souza, Official White House Photographer

US President Obama addresses Ukrainian conflict in State of the Union Address

January 22, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

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. […]

American analyst Janusz Bugajski: There are things in Russia that West fear more than Putin

January 22, 2015 DELFI EN 0

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). […]

58 percent of Latvian men willing to take up arms to protect country

January 21, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Almost 60 percent of male citizens of Latvia, 80 percent of which are reservists of the National Armed Forces, would be ready to take up arms to protect Latvia, according to a survey conducted by research centre SKDS for the Defence Ministry. […]

Russia refuses entry to EP delegation

January 21, 2015 BNS 0

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. […]

Russian government wants to monitor students’ contacts with EU diplomats

January 21, 2015 BNS 0

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. […]

EU will not sacrifice Crimea for peace in Donbass, Lithuanian minister says

January 20, 2015 ELTA EN 0

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 outlines practical cooperation aspects

January 20, 2015 BNS 0

Baltic Assembly President Giedrė Purvaneckienė on Tuesday pinpointed practical priorities of the Baltic countries’ inter-parliamentary cooperation. […]

President Grybauskaitė’s advisor: No place for appeasement politics in Ukraine

January 20, 2015 ELTA EN 0

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. […]

Swedish royal family plans visit to Lithuania

January 20, 2015 BNS 0

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. […]

Lithuania starts Presidency of Baltic Assembly

January 20, 2015 ELTA EN 0

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. […]

Lithuanian businesses catch up with Estonians in innovation plans

January 19, 2015 ELTA EN 0

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. […]

Lithuanian conservative leader defends Khodorkovsky’s statements in Vilnius

January 19, 2015 BNS 0

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. […]