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US study finds growing plagiarism among Latvian scholars
A study conducted in the United States reveals growing plagiarism among Latvian scholars, reports LETA, referring to TV3 News. […]
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Can “economic Molotov cocktail” explode Moscow?
The two-thousand-strong protest rally in Moscow this week, triggered by a court sentence for anti-Kremlin campaigner Alexei Navalny and his brother, shows that, despite all the effort, Vladimir Putin‘s regime has not completely crushed the opposition in Russia. A Maidan in Moscow is probably Putin’s worst nightmare. Can it come true? […]
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Latvian PM congratulates Lithuania on euro zone membership
Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity) has congratulated Lithuania with its accession to the euro zone on 1 January 2015, the government’s press service informed LETA. […]
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Is Kremlin scared of Alexei Navalny?
A sentence for the Kremlin’s most famous critic Alexei Navalny was pronounced earlier than everyone expected. This might have been done to deflect protests by Navalny’s supporters, who were planning to take to the streets of Moscow in January, but also due to economic pressures, says a Lithuanian political scientist. […]
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Estonian Security Police officer’s detention in Moscow extended until April
On Monday, a Moscow court extended the custody of Estonian Security Police (KaPo) official Eston Kohver until 5 April, Estonia’s Public Broadcasting reports. […]
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Latvian president does not comment if he will attend Victory Day celebration in Moscow
Russia is already preparing for large-scale celebrations to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, and Latvian President Andris Bērziņš has been invited to the event as well. […]
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Lithuanian defence minister: Russia’s military doctrine confuses causes and consequences
Russia is trying to justify its own aggression by mixing up the causes and consequences in its new military doctrine which names NATO as the key threat, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Monday. […]
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2014 one of the worst years in Latvian-Russian relations – Russian ambassador
2014 has been one of the most difficult and least successful years in the Latvian-Russian relations for the past twenty years, Russian Ambassador to Latvia Alexander Veshnyakov said during a meeting with several Latvian mass media. […]
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Eston Kohver likely to get home next summer
Yevgeni Aksyonov, the lawyer appointed by Russia to Estonian Security Police (KaPo) official Eston Kohver, who is being detained in Moscow prison with espionage charges, says that he hopes Kohver can return home next summer, Eesti Paevaleht writes. […]
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Lithuanian president: Dialogue with Moscow is possible only after Ukraine’s territorial integrity is restored
Nobody wishes Russia ill but a dialogue is possible only after Ukraine‘s territorial integrity is restored, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in an interview with Lithuania’s LNK TV news program on Friday night. […]
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Putin’s Russia. Roots of today’s regime date back to KGB under Andropov
In the articles of Putin’s Russia series I have repeatedly written about Yevgeny Primakov’s clan. I have described in detail the ongoing battle regarding the implementation of the so-called peace plan in Ukraine, and Primakov’s influence structures both in Russia and in the West. The article about Yevtushenkov’s case was also inevitably related to the information about Primakov’s clan because the oligarch was considered the member of this clan. […]
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Ukrainian ambassador presents Kiev’s programme before Lithuanian parliament
Ukraine expects that the Lithuanians appointed to its government will help the country implement key reforms, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Lithuania Valery Zhovtenko said on Monday. […]
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Baltic states – among world’s hot spots of 2015?
The news agency Bloomberg has included the Baltic states in the list of places in the world where geopolitical tensions could run high next year. […]
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Russia threatens with rebuff after US president signs Ukraine Freedom Support Act
Russia will not leave Washington’s actions without response, the United States will be fully to blame for the consequences, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich warned on Friday in connection with the signing by US President Barack Obama of the Ukraine Freedom Support Act. […]
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Europe and Russia after South Stream
The crisis in Ukraine, and in particular Russia‘s recent cancellation of the South Stream natural gas pipeline project, has had substantial ripple effects on the energy dynamics on the European continent. The Russians and Europeans both have put forth several potential replacements for the now scrapped pipeline, with Turkey likely to play a pivotal role either way. […]