Due to political tensions that emerged in the Estonian government last week, chairman of the Reform Party, Prime Minister Taavi Roivas cancelled his visit to Lithuania and Sweden that was to take place on Monday; Foreign Trade and Entrepreneurship Minister Anne Sulling will go to the visit instead of him, Postimees Online reports. […]
Pro-Western forces have won the general elections in Ukraine and they secured a stable majority necessary to push reforms. But a lot of questions remain on oligarchs’ influence on the country’s future progress, says analyst Laurynas Kasčiūnas of the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Lithuania. […]
The victory of pro-Western forces in Ukraine‘s general elections shows that the country is bidding goodbye to its past and is ready to take the European path, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Raimonda Murmokaitė on Friday called on the international community to condemn the elections being organized by pro-Russian separatists in Donbass, Ukraine, on 2 November. […]
At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, the Lithuanian ambassador called on Russia to withdraw troops from Ukraine and refrain from actions which would mean a de facto annexation of Abkhazia. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė stressed at the European Council summit that the Ukrainian parliamentary elections should take place on Sunday without any pressure from the outside. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said during a visit in Georgia that Russia‘s proposal for Abkhazia to sign a special agreement is an attempt to de facto annex the region. […]
After Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law limiting foreign capital in Russian media companies to 20 percent, there are fears this will undercut the last remaining voices in the country that dare to be critical of the government. But despite massive pressure, a handful of Russian journalists refuse to give in. […]
In the last essay of the series “Putin’s Russia”, I discussed the long efforts of Yevgeny Primakov’s clan to turn Ukraine’s conflict in the direction of conditional peace rather than war by imposing certain conditions and concluding everything with a peace agreement that is so useful to Russia. […]
The Constitutional Committee of the Estonian parliament supported a law amendment that allows the government to determine the location of Estonian-Russian temporary control line, which creates prerequisites for marking it better, maintaining and guarding it more effectively, Public Broadcasting reports. […]
Sweden must revise its defence capacities in the light of the growing Russian military power and the latest developments in the Baltic Sea region, the country’s new Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]
While Sweden‘s army is looking for what it suspects is a Russian submarine spotted in the country’s waters near Stockholm – a situation reminiscent of Cold War incidents – Lithuania must monitor the Baltic Sea, above and underwater, as it awaits the arrival of its LNG Terminal’s storage unit. […]
It is important to exchange information and ensure common security in the Baltic Sea amid an increase in Russian provocations, says Jovita Neliupšienė, chief adviser to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on foreign policy issues. […]
Sweden‘s armed forces keep their eyes on the tanker NS Concord that has been zig-zagging near the country’s territorial waters for the last couple of days while the Swedes continue to search for what is suspected to be a Russian submarine spotted in Stockholm archipelago. NS Concord does not have a long history but she has already visited Klaipėda Port. […]
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