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Ball in Latvia’s court after Lithuania’s LNG terminal officially launched operations
Lithuania’s 500-million-litas (EUR 145m) liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, which is the country’s first alternative to Russian gas supplies and which the government believes could become a regional terminal, is officially launching operations on Wednesday, but Latvia and Estonia will have to wait until they are able to make use of its full potential. […]
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Lithuanian president: Jets near Baltic air-space are sign of Russian stupidity, not power
The increasingly frequent Russian provocations by flying its military jets close to the Baltic air-space shows “stupidity, not power,” says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
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Lithuania’s Grybauskaitė stresses importance of defence and energy cooperation in meeting with Baltic-Polish presidents
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with her Latvian, Estonian and Polish counterparts in Tallinn on Tuesday, where she discussed the importance of long-term collective defence instruments and energy projects. […]
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Lithuania warns NATO against giving impression that Russia can veto Ukraine’s membership
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that the West would create a dangerous precedent by making an impression that Russia may block Ukraine‘s NATO membership. […]
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Russia says Lithuania will suffer for President Grybauskaitė’s statements
Russia is going to take into account the recent statements made by Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė while developing relations with Lithuania, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vassily Nebenzya said on Monday, Tass reports. […]
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Bruce S. Thornton: Why should Putin risk for Baltic states?
The Western countries are unable to properly respond to Russia‘s aggressive policies, because they are “rich enough to afford the luxury of believing that [they] can take a vacation from history, and ignore the permanent reality of human violence and conflicting, zero-sum interests,” according to Hoover Institution research fellow Prof. Bruce S. Thornton. […]
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Latvia’s new parliament speaker chooses Lithuania for her first foreign trip
The new speaker of the Latvian Saeima (parliament), Inara Murniece, says she chose Lithuania for her first foreign visit because of common history and cultural ties. […]
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One year after Vilnius summit: Times of “limited sovereignty” coming back?
“Europe had been waiting for an engagement party for two years but it was called off a week before,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius on the evening of 28 November 2013 after Ukraine refused to sign the association agreement with the European Union (EU). […]
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Sanctions not aimed at ordinary Russian citizens, says EU Ambassador Ušackas
The European Union‘s sanctions are not aimed at ordinary Russian citizens, and Europe is committed to further invest in people-to-people contacts, the Lithuanian EU Ambassador to Russia, Vygaudas Ušackas, said in his welcome speech at the opening of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum in Tallinn. […]
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Edward Lucas to become Estonia’s first e-resident
Estonia‘s first e-resident will be British journalist and columnist Edward Lucas, Minister of Internal Affairs Hanno Pevkur said on Thursday at the government press conference, Delfi reports. […]
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Lithuanian PM: EU must be united for swift and good Ukraine result
EU member states must be united if they want swift and good results on Ukraine, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
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Lithuanian parliament speaker: Europe should speak in one voice on Russian issue
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė has refrained from comments on President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s strong-worded statements on Russia, noting that the European Union (EU) should speak in one voice on the matter. […]
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President Grybauskaitė: Russia made accusations against entire Europe
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that the statement of head of Federal Customs Service of Russia Andrey Belyaninov, who said that Lithuanian vehicle inspection was made stricter because the country is used to import illegal embargo goods from the entire European Union, is an accusation on the EU as a whole. She also said that solutions will have to be found at the European level. […]
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Lithuania to provide assistance to Ukraine based on its needs, defence minister says
Lithuania will provide assistance to Ukraine based on the country’s needs, Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Juozas Olekas told BNS on Tuesday. […]
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Lithuanian president’s office vague about reported armaments supply to Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said at a news conference with visiting Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė that it was agreed on “supplies of concrete elements of concrete armaments” to Ukraine, but Lithuanian president’s office does not specify what exactly was promised. […]
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Reforms needed for well-being of Ukrainian people – Grybauskaitė
In Kyiv, President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to discuss Ukraine’s progress in implementing major reforms, the presidential press service informs. […]