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Lithuanian state television to air Russian-language news on Ukraine

July 10, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian national television LRT will launch a new Russian-language broadcast covering events in Ukraine. On 14 July, the national television LRT will start broadcasting news broadcasts News.Ukraine prepared by Ukrainian journalists. […]

President Grybauskaitė warns about growing “Russian chauvinism”

July 9, 2014 BNS 0

Growing Russian chauvinism is raising great concern, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has warned in an interview published on Wednesday. […]

Estonia’s local councils consider Rail Baltica environmental impact report

July 9, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Local councils in Estonia‘s districts that are to be affected by the new Rail Baltica railway route were introduced to the interim report on strategic assessments of environmental impact and comparative results of various routes, according to the country’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. […]

Four injured Ukrainian soldiers to be treated in Lithuania

July 9, 2014 BNS 0

Four Ukrainian soldiers are set to come to Lithuania for rehabilitation after being injured in eastern Ukraine where the country’s army is carrying out an operation against pro-Russian insurgents, Lithuanian diplomats confirmed on Wednesday. […]

Lucas warns US senators: Baltic security crisis is “dangerous threat” to NATO alliance

July 9, 2014 BNS 0

A security crisis in the Baltic states is the biggest threat to NATO, therefore, the Alliance must boost its presence in the region to avoid it and deter Russia, British analyst Edward Lucas warned in a speech to the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee. […]

Estonia concerned about France’s Mistral deal with Russia

July 8, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Estonia‘s Prime Minister Taavi Roivas met with President of France François Hollande on Tuesday, reports Postimees Online. […]

Latvian president signs new Constitution Preamble

July 8, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Latvian President Andris Bērziņš has signed the new Preamble to the Constitution, previously approved by Parliament, as printed in the government’s official newspaper Latvijas Vestnesis today. […]

Estonia keeps its high Standard & Poor’s rating

July 8, 2014 ELTA EN 0

The international ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has reaffirmed Estonia‘s long-term State rating at its former high level of AA-, with a stable outlook, reports the Ministry of Finance. […]

Seimas ratifies EU deals with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia

July 8, 2014 BNS EN 0

The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday ratified the association agreements between the European Union and Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. […]

Remembering Georgia’s Shevardnadze

July 8, 2014 STRATFOR 0

Eduard Shevardnadze, the last foreign minister of the Soviet Union and onetime president of Georgia, died Monday. Shevardnadze had not been active in politics since his ouster as president during the Rose Revolution in 2003. However, his time in politics marks two critical periods of transition in geopolitics and the world: the end of the Cold War and the restart of the U.S.-Russian struggle. […]

Lithuanian leaders: Shevardnadze was a controversial figure

July 7, 2014 BNS 0

Former Georgian president and one of the last foreign ministers of the USSR Eduard Shevardnadze died in Tbilisi on Monday, aged 86. Lithuanian leaders say he was a controversial figure, whose legacy will include both great achievements and misdeeds. […]

Lithuania-Norway business chamber opens in Norway

July 7, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Lithuania has set up a Lithuanian-Norwegian business chamber in Oslo. It is the first and probably the major step towards creating even tighter business relations between the two countries. […]

Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson, photo by Bogdanas

Hannibalsson: “Lithuania has gone way beyond my expectations”

July 7, 2014 www.DELFI.lt 0

Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson was the foreign minister of Iceland in 1988-95. Under his leadership, Iceland was the first country to recognize the restored independence of Lithuania. Already since March, 1990, Hannibalsson was one of the main supporters of Lithuanian freedom on the international scene. In January, 1991, despite the displayed discontent of the USSR, he became the only minister of a NATO country to come to Vilnius and to express solidarity with Lithuania during the Soviet aggression. […]

Why Sikorski is more useful in Brussels than in Warsaw?

June 30, 2014 www.DELFI.lt 0

Now that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is mired in a phone-tapping scandal, political editors say that he could have been more beneficial in the European Union (EU) Foreign Policy chief post instead of in Polish Foreign Ministry […]

Representatives of the Belarusian opposition said in Vilnius on June 30

“Ukraine” worst word in Belarus now – opposition in Vilnius

June 30, 2014 BNS 0

“Ukraine” is now the worst word in Belarus, representatives of the Belarusian opposition said in Vilnius on Monday, also stating that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has found himself in a standstill in terms of the country’s relations with Russia. […]