Lithuania will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Welles Declaration on 23 July in Washington Square in Vilnius at the event Together We Believe in Freedom. The declaration marked the beginning of the United States‘ non-recognition policy of the occupation and annexation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. […]
During their meeting in Vilnius Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis have discussed, among other things, collective armaments purchase, in particular, jointly acquiring medium-range air defence systems. […]
Friday the European Commission‘s record EUR 13.1 billion investment plan for the transport sector came closer to reality, after EU Member States approved the list of projects to receive funding under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), which includes the Rail Baltica high-speed rail project, the European Commission informs. […]
Member of the Russian Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky, notorious for his eccentric and chauvinistic statements, is calling for a referendum to be organized in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia where people would be offered to vote for the countries to be included in the Russian Federation. Zhirinovsky openly announced that the referendum is not an attempt to allow the residents to exercise their democratic rights to voice their wishes, but to give them the opportunity to “agree becoming part of Russia again”. […]
Europe’s new front-line states are the Nordic countries, Baltic countries, plus Poland, which share a common concern about a “revisionist and rapidly-rearming Russia”, according to the Baltic Sea Security Report by the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]
On Monday, at one of the most important European Union (EU) annual transport events TEN-T days 2015, the representatives of the joint venture of the three Baltic States RB Rail presented the project Rail Baltica – a great example of a propriety infrastructure project of a common interest, reports the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania. […]
On Wednesday, 17 June, the defence ministers of three Baltic states are opening the lecture room named the Baltic Way in the Baltic Defence College, in the framework of the graduation ceremony. […]
Sergeant Rolandas Nakvosas is the Squad leader of the 2nd Surveillance Squad of the Heavy Artillery Company, King Mindaugas Hussar Battalion of Lithuania. […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s press secretary, Dmitri Peskov, said on Monday that Moscow was ready for talks with the Baltic states. […]
Featured last night on the LTV1 news magazine De facto was Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, who said that Russia wanted “normal relations with the Baltic States, and to revive the dialogue”. […]
Dr. Nerijus Maliukevičius, lecturer of Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences, Russian and East European Studies Centre, presented the report “Russia’s Use of Information Operations in the Baltic States” at the international seminar on “Information Operations as a Foreign Policy Tool – the Situation in the Baltic States and Consequences for Sweden” which took place in Stockholm on 19 May. […]
During a meeting of Lithuania’s Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis with US Ambassador to Lithuania Deborah McCarthy last week, bilateral contacts and possibilities of strengthening law enforcement institutions abilities in the context of current geopolitical threats were discussed, the Interior Ministry said. […]
A study of the expenses of households carried out by Swedbank’s Institute of Private Finances has revealed that Lithuanians spend less money on food than Latvians and Estonians. A family of four people that lives in Vilnius spends EUR 291 per month on recommended food products. The same food products cost in Riga by 7.2 percent more – EUR 312, whereas in Tallinn by 2.7 percent more – EUR 299. […]
Rolands Irklis, Board Member of the Public Utilities Commission of Latvia, who will be speaking at the Traditional and Renewable Energy Forum in Vilnius next week, says that it would be better for Baltic States to agree on common liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project and apply for EU funds to develop it. […]
With the Russian 9th of May celebrations of Soviet victory in World War Two approaching, many in the Baltic States are concerned about the potential risk of provocations or confrontation stemming from the more radical and disgruntled elements of the local Russian minority. Moreover, since Russia launched a shadow war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, NATO, American, and European governments have been increasingly concerned about the risks of hybrid warfare in Poland and the Baltic region. […]
Czech President Miloš Zeman has said that Russia‘s attack on the Baltic States would be suicidal for Moscow because the attack would drag NATO into a fight. […]
Norman M. Naimark, professor at Stanford University, is one of the most authoritative experts on Central and Eastern Europe in the United States whose research interests include the region’s modern history, genocides and ethnic cleansings that happened here. […]
It would be hard to imagine Athenian generals worrying about the reporting of Spartan news or even, twenty-four centuries later, Douglas MacArthur caring much about media broadcasts from the land of the rising sun. But when General Philip Breedlove, the Supreme Commander of NATO, recently called on the West to make a greater effort to counter Russia’s toxic war of disinformation against Ukraine and its western allies, his concern made perfect military sense. In a world in which the dissemination of information is a key tactical element in violent conflicts, the West and America have remained far too passive in confronting both the insidious campaign of lies on Russian state-controlled media and the notoriously effective internet recruitment efforts of terrorist groups. […]
On April 2 Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with a delegation of US congressmen led by US Congressman and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry, conducting visit in Lithuania, the Ministry reports. […]
On 31 March, soldiers of the Portuguese Armed Forces arrived in Lithuania for combined training as part of NATO reassurance measures in the Baltic region, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
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