On 28 October, representatives from the Baltic States signed a landmark agreement which will launch the project Rail Baltica and bring the Baltic region closer to Western Europe. […]
After several years of negotiations, the three Baltic countries on Tuesday established a joint venture that will carry out the European-standard gauge railway project Rail Baltica. […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to blackmail the West with a nuclear weapon. So says Russian policy expert Andrey Piontkovsky. He reasons that if the “little green men” and Russian troops turn up in Estonia, for example, Vladimir Putin would warn NATO not to intervene because that would be a Russian World affair and he’d threaten to use nuclear weapons if the Alliance took military action against him. […]
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven of Sweden is making a stop in Vilnius on Tuesday during his tour of the Baltic states and Finland. […]
On Thursday, a meeting of Nordic-Baltic defence policy directors officially approved that the projects implemented in the Nordic Defence Cooperation (NORDEFCO) format have been opened for the Baltic States. […]
If gas supplies from Russia to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were to be disrupted, the soon-to-be-commissioned liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Klaipėda would ensure the supply for customers in all three Baltic countries, the European Commission (EC) has said. […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the Baltic states and Ukraine of “open manifestations of neonazism”, the news agency Unian reports. […]
The Association of German Magazine Publishers have awarded the Golden Victoria Prize to the three Baltic states for promoting and implementing pro-European ideas, the Lithuanian President’s Office said in a press release. […]
With the September 30 review of EU sanctions against Russia approaching, the Baltic states are among several countries interested in maintaining the pressure on Moscow for its role in the Ukraine crisis. However, Baltic nations are also operating under significant constraints, including the region’s economic ties to Russia and the competing interests of larger EU countries that want to improve relations with Moscow. […]
Just as the purpose of terror is to terrorize, the purpose of provocation is to provoke – and if the targets of a provocation understand what the one engaging in it wants to provoke, they will be in a much better position not only to prepare for it but to avoid falling into the trap the provocateur hopes to set and to deny him a victory. […]
According to the latest Prudentia M and A Folio study, local and foreign investors’ interest in investment opportunities offered by the Baltic countries is steady at the moment, the investment banking and financial advisory company Prudentia reports. […]
Chief of Defence of Lithuania, Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas, expressed his delight with interesting and intense discussions on further NATO’s actions in response to the changed international security situation when summarizing the results of NATO Military Committee Conference 2014 in Vilnius, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
In order to consolidate security in Eastern Europe, Germany will send about 800 soldiers to military exercises in the Baltic states next year, the Latvian National Armed Forces’ Commander Raimonds Graube informed LETA. […]
Alea iacta est. NATO has agreed on the formation of a special ‘spearhead force’ (officially: Very High Readiness Joint Task Force) that, if necessary, will offer the eastern member states (additional) protection against Russia’s imperialist whims. After twenty years of peace keeping operations and crisis management on the Balkans and in exotic places further away, the alliance will refocus on its original task, as anchored in Article 5 of the Washington Treaty: collective defence. […]
Though there is almost a feeling of euphoria in Russia over the aggression against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is leading his country into its demise, claims former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Paul Goble in an interview with DELFI. […]
The 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way gives food for thought about a number of things: the neo-fascist threats from Russia, about the place of idols and sculptures in Grūtas Park and the museum reminiscent of the occupation of Lithuania, about the security of Lithuania and Ukraine after a quarter of a century since the restoring statehood and about the Baltic identity. […]
The Baltic Sea region has today become the main geographic “fault line” between NATO and Russia. The probably most important single factor to enhance security and stability in the region is to make it credible that NATO intends, and is able, to defend the Baltic States. […]
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