Baltic States

  • Economy

Lithuanian transport minister: Rail Baltica should be a priority in allocating funds

On 28 October, representatives from the Baltic States signed a landmark agreement which will launch the project Rail Baltica and…

10 years ago
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Baltic countries set up joint company for Rail Baltica

After several years of negotiations, the three Baltic countries on Tuesday established a joint venture that will carry out the…

10 years ago
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Andrey Piontkovsky: Putin plans to play poker, not chess

Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to blackmail the West with a nuclear weapon. So says Russian policy expert Andrey Piontkovsky.…

10 years ago
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The Baltic states and Russian compatriots

Since Russian military incursions into Crimea and Eastern Ukraine to protect Russian “compatriots”, Latvia’s and Lithuania’s Russian and Russian-speaking populations…

10 years ago

Swedish new prime minister to visit Baltic states

Prime Minister Stefan Löfven of Sweden is making a stop in Vilnius on Tuesday during his tour of the Baltic…

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  • Defence

Lithuania joins Nordic Defence Cooperation

On Thursday, a meeting of Nordic-Baltic defence policy directors officially approved that the projects implemented in the Nordic Defence Cooperation…

10 years ago
  • Energy

European Commission: Klaipėda LNG facility will ensure supply for all three Baltic countries

If gas supplies from Russia to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were to be disrupted, the soon-to-be-commissioned liquefied natural gas (LNG)…

10 years ago

Putin accused Baltic states of neonazism

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the Baltic states and Ukraine of "open manifestations of neonazism", the news agency Unian…

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Baltic states awarded for promoting pro-European ideas

The Association of German Magazine Publishers have awarded the Golden Victoria Prize to the three Baltic states for promoting and…

10 years ago
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Competing interests threaten Baltic pressure on Russia

With the September 30 review of EU sanctions against Russia approaching, the Baltic states are among several countries interested in…

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  • Opinion

Opinion: What Putin intends to provoke in the Baltic countries

Just as the purpose of terror is to terrorize, the purpose of provocation is to provoke – and if the…

10 years ago
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Interest in Baltic investment opportunities steady

According to the latest Prudentia M and A Folio study, local and foreign investors' interest in investment opportunities offered by…

10 years ago
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How Russia pits Baltic states against one another

Even before it had finished "defending" the rights of Russian compatriots in Ukraine, Moscow spoke about oppression of Russian-speakers in…

10 years ago
  • Defence

Lithuanian Armed Forces must now do their homework, chief of defence says

Chief of Defence of Lithuania, Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas, expressed his delight with interesting and intense discussions on further…

10 years ago
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Germany to send 800 soldiers to Baltics next year

In order to consolidate security in Eastern Europe, Germany will send about 800 soldiers to military exercises in the Baltic…

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  • Opinion

Opinion: NATO promises to Russia? Which promises?

Alea iacta est. NATO has agreed on the formation of a special ‘spearhead force’ (officially: Very High Readiness Joint Task…

10 years ago
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Former CIA analyst: The fall of Putin’s Russia is a matter of several years

Though there is almost a feeling of euphoria in Russia over the aggression against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is leading his…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Keeping the Baltic identity alive

The 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way gives food for thought about a number of things: the neo-fascist threats from…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Stability in the Baltic Sea region

The Baltic Sea region has today become the main geographic “fault line” between NATO and Russia. The probably most important…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Three reasons why Lithuania needs NATO bases on its soil

Paradoxically enough, it is during the term of the US president who thought Europe's security system a done deal and…

10 years ago