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Estonia wants to build Europe’s biggest data warehouse

August 7, 2014 Baltic Business News 0

The ambitious plan that is backed by Finnish businessmen and is being promoted by leading IRL politician Eerik-Niiles Kross to build Europe’s largest data warehouse in Estonia raises doubts, writes Delovye Vedomosti. […]

Latvia’s fish canneries and dairy producers most vulnerable to Russian sanctions

August 7, 2014 The Baltic Course 0

Latvian fish canneries and dairy companies are likely to suffer most due to Russia‘s import ban, the head of the Centre for Promotion of Agricultural Markets, informs LETA. […]

Obama: No need yet for more US military aid to Ukraine

August 7, 2014 Reuters 0

US President Barack Obama, speaking at the closing of the US-Africa Leaders summit, said Washington was not considering sending weapons to Ukraine yet. […]

Ukraine readies for possible Russian invasion

August 7, 2014 Reuters 0

Ukrainian soldiers are laying siege to Donetsk, where pro-Russian rebels have taken control. […]

Tensions rise in Ukraine over military offensive

August 6, 2014 Reuters 0

In the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, rebels say they are in a “state of siege”. […]

“Everything was staged!” How Russian propaganda machine works

August 6, 2014 DELFI EN 0

The Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels would probably feel like an immature student were he to see the operation of the Kremlin propaganda machine. […]

Negotiations on Rail Baltic route in Estonian Northern Pärnu county run into difficulties

August 5, 2014 News.err.ee 0

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. […]

Dane who came to manage a company in Vilnius: I can live better here than in Copenhagen

August 5, 2014 DELFI EN 0

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. […]

Bulgaria’s banking botch up

August 5, 2014 Daniel Freifeld 0

In late 1996, Bulgaria found itself beset with both a banking crisis and hyperinflation. Nine out of the country’s 10 largest banks were failing, and inflation topped 2,000 percent on an annualized basis a few months later. […]

Russia unlikely to cut gas for Lithuania as Kaliningrad would suffer

August 4, 2014 BNS 0

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. […]

Estonia’s Kallas: Sanctions will hit Russia harder than recoil for EU

August 4, 2014 News.err.ee 0

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. […]

High-earning Estonian MP resorts to instant loan

August 4, 2014 Baltic Business News 0

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. […]

Russian submarine and corvette detected near Latvia’s economic zone

August 4, 2014 The Baltic Course 0

A Russian submarine and corvette were detected near Latvia‘s economic zone on Sudnay, informs LETA, quoting Latvia’s National Armed Forces. […]

Lithuanian opposition MP says “politicised accusation campaign” raging in Georgia

August 4, 2014 ELTA EN 0

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. […]

Vladimir Putin’s pyramid of rule: Who really governs Russia?

August 4, 2014 Dr. Laurynas Kasciunas 0

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. […]

Belarus: Asymmetric ties and a balancing act

August 3, 2014 Eurasia Daily Monitor 0

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. […]

Polish ambassador thanks Lithuanians for support amid Russia’s fruit import ban

August 2, 2014 BNS 0

Poland‘s ambassador to Lithuania has thanked organizers of an “apple protest action” in Vilnius for showing support to Poland in response to Russia’s ban on fruit and vegetable imports from the country. […]

Amid Crisis, Belarus re-examines its political and security situation

August 2, 2014 STRATFOR 0

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. […]

Russia-NATO: No “business as usual”

August 2, 2014 Eurasia Daily Monitor 0

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. […]

Russia may take counter-sanctions against West

August 1, 2014 BNS 0

The Kremlin could apply counter-sanctions against the West in response to European Union (EU) and United States sanctions against Russia, say lecturers of the Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science. […]