Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is going to Ukraine on Wednesday on a visit, which will for the first time include a trip to the country’s Eastern part – the city of Avdiivka in the warn-torn Donetsk region. […]
Despite Kiev’s official rhetoric, the national consensus on integration with the EU is increasingly fragile. Pro-Russian forces are reasserting themselves in the southeast, while ultra-right activists are campaigning against the European Union in the west. On top of that, the current pro-European government has no real achievements to boast of. […]
On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said after meeting with Ukrainian leaders in Kiev on Thursday that intensive shootouts continue in Eastern Ukraine regardless of the ceasefire, urging to go on or step up the sanctions on Russia. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius is on Thursday going to Ukraine for a two-day visit and is scheduled to meet with the country’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and other officials. […]
Many Lithuanians follow closely developments in Kiev, where Aivaras Abromavičius, a 39-year-old Vilnius-born businessman, has been put in charge of Ukraine‘s ministry of economy and trade. He is one of several foreigners invited by Ukraine’s current leadership who decided it takes an outsider to tackle corruption and inefficiency that plagues the country’s economy. […]
During a busy day in Washington, the Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk received plenty of support from the US Administration, including President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and US Secretary for Commerce Penny Pritzker. […]
The gloomy mood ahead of the EU Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga this week is in a stark contrast with the expectations that prevailed before the similar meeting in Vilnius one and a half years ago. […]
There is no doubt who gained most from the deal reached in Minsk on February 12th to end the conflict in Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a minimum, a frozen conflict will block Ukraine’s progress towards NATO and the EU; and if fighting resumes, the terms of the ceasefire will leave Ukrainian forces in a weaker position than now. […]
Ukraine hopes for the European Union‘s unity in retaining and tightening sanctions against Russia and providing economic, political and military support, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, currently in Ukraine, said on Wednesday night. […]
This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. […]
This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. […]
As the standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine continues into 2015, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will come to play an increasingly important role. Even before the crisis, the three Baltic states — as well as neighboring Poland — were among the most active EU member states attempting to bring Ukraine closer to the West and to challenge Russia’s role in the former Soviet periphery. Their efforts along these lines will intensify this year. Ultimately, however, more powerful players in the standoff will limit the impacts of their efforts, particularly Germany and the United States. […]
Lithuanian asset manager Aivaras Abromavičius was appointed Ukraine‘s economy minister late last year to help save the country from bankruptcy. Is he up for the job, asks Bloomberg columnist Leonid Bershidsky. […]
In Kyiv, President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to discuss Ukraine’s progress in implementing major reforms, the presidential press service informs. […]
Pro-Western forces have won the general elections in Ukraine and they secured a stable majority necessary to push reforms. But a lot of questions remain on oligarchs’ influence on the country’s future progress, says analyst Laurynas Kasčiūnas of the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Lithuania. […]
The victory of pro-Western forces in Ukraine‘s general elections shows that the country is bidding goodbye to its past and is ready to take the European path, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
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