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Estonian government supports lowering voting age

August 1, 2014 The Baltic Course 0

The Estonian government on Thursday endorsed a bill initiated in the Riigikogu to lower the voting age at local municipality elections to 16 years, informs Postimees Online. […]

Ukrainian says his truck carried BUK rockets that downed MH17

August 1, 2014 Tomas Dapkus 0

More and more evidence points to the fact that Kremlin-supported terrorists shot down the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane. Alfa.lt has interviewed the owner of the trailer-truck that allegedly transport BUK rockets, one of which downed the MH17 flight, from Ukraine. […]

Kremlin’s strategy: complicated, obscure, manipulative, yet effective

July 31, 2014 Migle Valaitiene 0

The situation in Ukraine is becoming more intense – military conflicts are still going on, and cases of Russian aggression in the country is reported frequently. […]

Lithuania: Moscow wrongfully accused Ukraine at UN

July 30, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry stated Wednesday that it objected to the Russian report at the United Nations (UN) Security Council, as it berated Ukraine for the MH17 crash but did not mention the actions of Moscow-supported separatists. […]

Estonia lifts ban on Lithuanian pork imports

July 30, 2014 ELTA EN 0

After four days when the country’s borders were closed to Lithuanian pork products, Estonia‘s Veterinary and Food Board lifted the ban and established a buffer zone in southern counties as fears of African swine fever, an agricultural disease, spread, news.err.ee informs. […]

Foreign Ministry says Lithuania does not retract criticism of Belarusian NPP project

July 30, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry refuses to confirm recent statements by Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei’s that Lithuania allegedly accepts Minsk’s propositions regarding Astravyets nuclear plant. […]

Investigators struggle to reach MH17 crash site as Ukraine fighting intensifies

July 29, 2014 Reuters 0

Eleven days after it crashed, the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 remains out of reach for international investigators. […]

Andrey Illarionov in Vilnius: Obama could have stopped Putin

July 28, 2014 BNS 0

US President Barack Obama had the chance to stop the annexation of Crimea, according to Andrey Illarionov, former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]

Organizers threaten to pull high-profile music festival from Latvia following sanctions against Russian performers

July 28, 2014 Baltic News Network 0

Russian composer and organizer of the New Wave music contest, Igor Krutoy, warns will consider moving the annual festival out of Latvia‘s Baltic resort Jurmala. His statement follows a decision by the Latvian government to refuse entry to several Russian pop performers due to their vocal support for Moscow’s policies in Ukraine. […]

Estonian power plant among Europe’s top polluters

July 28, 2014 The Baltic Course 0

Climate Action Network, or CAN Europe, published its “Europe’s Dirty 30” report, which ranks 30 most polluting European power plants, informs Postimees Online. […]

Lithuanian Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė

Baltic and Polish ministers to convene in Vilnius to discuss swine fever

July 28, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė has invited her counterparts from Estonia, Latvia and Poland to come to Vilnius on Wednesday. The officials plan to discuss the consequences of the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) and ways to help farmers. […]

Russia’s Navy Day highlights new reality in Crimea

July 28, 2014 Reuters 0

It’s a new Navy Day in Crimea. […]

US releases images it says show Russia fired on Ukraine

July 28, 2014 Reuters 0

The US State Department says it has new images implicating Russia in the Ukrainian conflict. […]

Putin’s ex-adviser says MH17 was not random choice

July 28, 2014 BNS 0

The Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was not shot down accidentally, it was chosen as a target because it was flying from Amsterdam, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former adviser Andrey Illarionov has said in Vilnius. […]

How Vladimir Putin rose, and could fall, in Russia

July 26, 2014 STRATFOR 0

Stratfor’s Editor-in-Chief David Judson and Founder George Friedman discuss how Putin’s handling of the Ukrainian crisis is influenced by recent Russian history and could lead to his downfall. […]

Belarus hesitant about facilitated border crossing with Lithuania

July 25, 2014 BNS 0

Belarus is once again asking for additional consultations over the facilitated crossing of the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, said Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius after meeting with Belarusian government representatives in Minsk. […]

Estonia bans pork imports from Lithuania

July 25, 2014 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Estonia‘s veterinary authorities have announced a ban on pork imports from Lithuania following an outbreak of the African swine fever in Ignalina District, north-east Lithuania. […]

Estonia faces 10-million-euro milk fine

July 25, 2014 The Baltic Course 0

Estonian Minister of Agriculture Ivar Padar tells the Postimees daily that Estonia is likely to face a 10 to 14-million-euro milk fine for exceeding the European dairy quota next spring, informs LETA. […]

Estonian businessman plans 30-storey skyscraper in central Tallinn

July 24, 2014 Baltic Business News 0

Estonian businessman Olav Miil, known as the owner of the ferries that operate between mainland Estonia, Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, has built up an extensive real estate empire and is developing a 30-storey high-rise building in Tallinn, writes Eesti Päevaleht. […]

Latvia stops pork imports from Lithuania

July 24, 2014 The Baltic Course 0

After an outbreak of African swine fever in one of the largest pig farms in Lithuania, the Food and Veterinary Service of Latvia has halted the import of several pork product categories, including fresh pork meat, frozen pork, as well as various pork product – sausages, ground pork, packaged pork, etc., informs NOZARE.LV/LETA. […]