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Obama: No need yet for more US military aid to Ukraine
US President Barack Obama, speaking at the closing of the US-Africa Leaders summit, said Washington was not considering sending weapons to Ukraine yet. […]
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Ukraine readies for possible Russian invasion
Ukrainian soldiers are laying siege to Donetsk, where pro-Russian rebels have taken control. […]
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Tensions rise in Ukraine over military offensive
In the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, rebels say they are in a “state of siege”. […]
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“Everything was staged!” How Russian propaganda machine works
The Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels would probably feel like an immature student were he to see the operation of the Kremlin propaganda machine. […]
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Negotiations on Rail Baltic route in Estonian Northern Pärnu county run into difficulties
A Rail Baltic project team is meeting today in Vändra municipality to discuss how the tracks of the proposed multilateral rail project will run north of Pärnu. Observers are mildly pessimistic about any outcome being reached. […]
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Dane who came to manage a company in Vilnius: I can live better here than in Copenhagen
It has been almost one year since Christel Wienziers, head of Alna Intelligence, moved from Denmark to Vilnius. While listing the differences between the countries, she emphasizes that she loves living in Lithuania, but, unfortunately, Scandinavia knows little about the interests of this country. […]
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Russia unlikely to cut gas for Lithuania as Kaliningrad would suffer
Russia is unlikely to impose any restrictions on natural gas exports to Lithuania as this would affect its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, a SEB Bankas economist said on Monday. […]
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Estonia’s Kallas: Sanctions will hit Russia harder than recoil for EU
In an interview in Eesti Päevaleht over the weekend, largely focusing on EU-Russia ties and developments in transport, outgoing European Commissioner for Transport Siim Kallas said that although Russia acts like it doesn’t need the EU or Western banks, the country would not be able to go it alone. […]
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High-earning Estonian MP resorts to instant loan
Eesti Päevaleht writes that Centre Party’s MP Olga Sõtnik not only owes about 260,000 euros in debt, but has also taken a 5,500 euro instant loan. […]
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Lithuanian opposition MP says “politicised accusation campaign” raging in Georgia
Member of the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), former foreign minister Audronius Ažubalis has called on Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius not to ignore developments in Georgia, one of the Eastern Partnership countries. […]
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Vladimir Putin’s pyramid of rule: Who really governs Russia?
In Lithuania and in the West, Putin’s system of rule is still often described as a monolith pyramid. In the eyes of society, Putin manages to present himself as an irreplaceable leader-statesman (‘tsar’, according to the West), solely making key decisions. But such an understanding of ruling processes in Russia is one of the main mistakes which prevents from obtaining a deeper insight into the regime’s origins and foundations. […]
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Belarus: Asymmetric ties and a balancing act
The geopolitical perspective that Belarus is being squeezed between Russia and the European Union remains relevant. New information continues to reveal modest but noticeable attempts to improve Belarus’s relations with the West as well as the ambivalent role of Russia, Belarus’s most important ally and sponsor. […]
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Amid Crisis, Belarus re-examines its political and security situation
Belarus will host the latest round of talks between Ukraine and Russia in Minsk on 1 August as Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko continues to push his country as a mediator in the crisis. Lukashenko’s motivation is not altruistic, however, as Belarus is not immune to the competition between Russia and the West over the strategic borderland countries of the former Soviet periphery. […]
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Russia-NATO: No “business as usual”
On 22 July, President Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian Security Council and effectively declared the demise of cooperation between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Putin covered issues linked to the crisis in Ukraine, rejected Western allegations of Russia’s de facto involvement in the downing of Flight MH17, and then turned to security challenges stemming from NATO. […]
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Lithuania invites Latvia and Estonia to take part in new nuclear plant project
Lithuanian Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič on Thursday invited Latvia to participate in the Visaginas nuclear power plant project, saying that a planned interim project company could be more efficient if partners, Latvia and Estonia, took part in it. […]
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