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President Grybauskaitė warns about growing “Russian chauvinism”
Growing Russian chauvinism is raising great concern, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has warned in an interview published on Wednesday. […]
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Estonia’s local councils consider Rail Baltica environmental impact report
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. […]
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Lucas warns US senators: Baltic security crisis is “dangerous threat” to NATO alliance
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. […]
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Estonia concerned about France’s Mistral deal with Russia
Estonia‘s Prime Minister Taavi Roivas met with President of France François Hollande on Tuesday, reports Postimees Online. […]
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Latvian president signs new Constitution Preamble
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. […]
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Remembering Georgia’s Shevardnadze
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. […]
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Lithuania-Norway business chamber opens in Norway
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. […]
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Hannibalsson: “Lithuania has gone way beyond my expectations”
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. […]
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Why Sikorski is more useful in Brussels than in Warsaw?
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 […]
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“Ukraine” worst word in Belarus now – opposition in Vilnius
“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. […]
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Lithuanian Foreign Minister meets Belyatsky, calls for prisoner release in Belarus
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Belarusian human rights activist Ales Belyatsky in Vilnius on Friday and called for the release of all political prisoners in Belarus. […]
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Belarus ambassador: Belyatsky’s release may facilitate EU-Belarusian dialogue
The release of Belarusian human rights activist Ales Belyatsky may have influence on Belarusian-EU relations, Belarusian Ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Korol says. […]
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Butkevičius: Baltics support Poroshenko’s peace plan for Ukraine
The Governments of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia support the peace plan proposed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
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Russian politician: We need to cut all contacts with Lithuania after Grybauskaitė’s statements
Russia needs to cut off all contacts with Lithuania and to start imposing economic sanctions after President Dalia Grybauskaitė has compared Vladimir Putin’s policy with those of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, says Igor Morozov, member of the Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee. […]