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Estonian paper says country needs Russian investment

September 22, 2014 Baltic Business News 0

It is hardly surprising that in the atmosphere of instability that the Baltic states have found themselves lately, the Estonian state keeps regarding Russian capital as a source of major risk. […]

New TV channel in Estonia to focus on quality Russian-language content

September 22, 2014 News.err.ee 0

Media experts say the new Russian-language public broadcasting television channel, approved by the Estonian government last week, must win over viewers with quality programming about everyday life in Estonia. […]

EU Ambassador to Moscow Ušackas: Moods in Russia are turning against Putin’s policies in Ukraine

September 22, 2014 www.lrt.lt 0

The EU Ambassador to Russia, Vygaudas Ušackas, speaking on the LRT television broadcast, claimed that although Russians are still following their leader, moods are changing because Western sanctions are starting to have a notable effect. […]

Latvia’s language watchdog fines authorities for putting heart on Riga

September 21, 2014 Baltic News Network 0

Latvia‘s State Language Centre has imposed a fine on Riga municipality for scandalously replacing a diacritical sign in “Rīga” with a heart. The municipal authorities thus wanted to spice up the large “Welcome to Riga” sign on the entrance to the city. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister on Ukraine truce: We must avoid frozen conflict

September 21, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius is cautious about a truce between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists, announced on Saturday. The minister welcomed attempts to stop violence but warned that demilitarized buffer zones might lead to a frozen conflict. […]

Russian analyst Piontkovsky: Putin will not shy away from nuclear blackmail

September 19, 2014 DELFI EN 0

The West can still stop Vladimir Putin with economic and political measures, but if he is allowed to get away with Ukraine, NATO could face a threat of a nuclear stand-off with Moscow, says Russian political analyst Andrey Piontkovsky. […]

President Petro Poroshenko at the White House. Photo Ludo Segers

Ukrainian President Poroshenko asks US military assistance during visit to Washington

September 19, 2014 Ludo Segers 0

The high-level visit of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to Washington on 18 September attracted much greater attention in the US capital than any other recent visit of a foreign head of state. His busy schedule saw President Poroshenko in the morning addressing the House of Representatives and the Senate in a joint meeting of US Congress before heading to the White House to meet President Barack Obama in the afternoon. […]

Germany to send 800 soldiers to Baltics next year

September 18, 2014 ELTA EN 0

In order to consolidate security in Eastern Europe, Germany will send about 800 soldiers to military exercises in the Baltic states next year, the Latvian National Armed Forces’ Commander Raimonds Graube informed LETA. […]

Vladimir Putin: Russian troops could be in Vilnius or Warsaw in two days

September 18, 2014 DELFI EN 0

In a meeting with Ukraine‘s President Petro Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin allegedly threatened that, if he wanted, the Russian army could occupy Poland and the Baltic states in two days. […]

Estonian media tycoon on balancing Kremlin’s aggressive information flow

September 18, 2014 Wojciech Przybyski 0

An interview with Hans Luik, an Estonian media tycoon and the main shareholder of DELFI, a major online news portal in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. […]

Lithuanian and Norwegian foreign ministers discuss solidarity amidst region’s security challenges

September 17, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, who paid a visit to Oslo on Tuesday, noted successful cooperation between Norway and Lithuania in the energy sector and discussed regional security and NATO issues as well as support to Ukraine. […]

Primakov clan’s trap for the West or a little about Putin’s peace roadmap

September 17, 2014 DELFI EN 0

In the last essay of the “Putin’s Russia” series we have reviewed the assumptions that suggest that namely Rogozin’s clan was the main architect and executor behind the Ukraine’s events. Therefore it would be natural to explore which Russian government clans are the most active in opposing the aggression towards Ukraine, and how they do it. […]

EU ambassador to Russia: Moscow’s self-isolation will harm both European and Russian economies

September 16, 2014 BNS 0

Moscow’s steps towards self-isolation from the rest of the world will harm both the economies of Europe and Russia, the European Union‘s Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas warned in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]

Lithuania's Interior Minister Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas

Baltic states agree to coordinate steps on domestic security

September 16, 2014 BNS 0

Ministers of interior affairs of the three Baltic states have agreed to set up a joint committee to coordinate issues of home security and public peace. […]

Latvian TV programme claims Russian embassy in Riga recruits mercenaries for Donbass separatists

September 16, 2014 DELFI EN 0

Latvian television has received information from Latvian citizens who intend to go to Ukraine and fight on behalf of Russia. […]

Minister Linkevičius: I cannot join optimists cheering peace treaty in Ukraine

September 15, 2014 Baltic News Network 0

Baltic States are safe because they are with NATO. Russia will not try to threaten member states of the alliance because that would be “totally insane”, believes Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]

Russian foreign ministry speaks of protecting Russian-speakers’ rights in Baltic states

September 15, 2014 DELFI EN 0

The foreign ministry of the Russian Federation has voiced calls to protect the rights of Russian-speakers in Latvia and Estonia, news agency UNIAN reports. […]

Russian Soldiers – cheap and luckless (II)

September 15, 2014 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

There’s no difference in the way Russia treats its civilians or its soldiers and it’s this aspect of Russia that makes it a true successor of Soviet tradition, Ramūnas Bogdanas argues. […]

Russian Soldiers – cheap and luckless (I)

September 15, 2014 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

Ten years ago on 3 September 2004 at exactly 13:00 in Beslan, North Ossetia, Chechen terrorists allowed the bodies of local people who had been killed and left lying there for three days in front of a school, to be gathered up. On 1 September the 34 Chechen terrorists had taken about 1200 teenagers and children hostage in the school. […]

Seimas speaker thanks Latvia for brotherhood

September 14, 2014 BNS EN 0

At a festivity to mark the Baltic Unity Day in Latvia on Saturday, Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė thanked for years of brotherly neighborhood. […]