The ministers of justice of the Baltic states, Poland and Ukraine have condemned the 1941 deportations, as Lithuania on Tuesday commemorates 75 years since the start of mass deportations of its citizens.
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Half of all Lithuanians are taking on additional work to supplement income from their main job, according to a survey. Fifty percent of Lithuanians said they had some source of additional income over the last […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that the Allied nations would agree to establish an international battalion in each of the Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as in Poland.
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From the 9th to the 13th centuries, the present-day Lithuanian Baltic coast was inhabited by the Curonians, a Baltic tribe that inspired respectful fear even in the Scandinavians. Unfortunately, the Curonians did not found a state and were forced to recognise the rule of the Teutonic Order. Life by the sea was never calm. […]
A senior US Defense Department official said on Tuesday that while Russia could break NATO defences in the Baltics in 60 hours or less, it will become much more difficult after 2017. US Deputy Assistant […]
While the Latvian and Estonian Prime Ministers want to move ahead and sign a tripartite agreement between the Baltic countries‘ governments on the European Rail Baltica project as soon as possible, the Lithuanian government said […]
Klaipėda-based AB Western Shipyard company group has acquired a floating dock to carry out repairs from the Montenegro company Adriatic Shipyard Bijela that will be the biggest in the Baltic States. “Acquisition of this dock […]
Lithuanians buy almost half of all essential goods specifically when they are on discount, according to new data from market research company Nielsen. “As many as four out of five Lithuanian shoppers spontaneously purchase goods […]
Central and Eastern Europe needs real, not symbolic capacities to deter Russia, according to US Army Europe Commander Lieutenant General Ben Hodges. […]
Lithuania was ranked the 41st most prosperous country in the world, lagging behind Poland and the other Baltic States. […]
Unlike in the Cold War, the current Russia–United States confrontation is asymmetrical, which carries different dangers. Cooperation will remain limited and Barack Obama’s successor will most likely take a harsher stance on Russia. […]
The retail sector in the Baltic States is highly concentrated with a small number of chains controlling large market shares, particularly in Lithuania and Latvia, according to a new survey. […]
The level of mergers and acquisitions in the Baltic states grew by 28% in the first four months of this year, bucking a global decline in M&A, according to a report by Prudentia. In the […]
The Baltic–Singapore Chamber of Commerce have launched an initiative in Lithuania to help Baltic entrepreneurs to discover this growing market in Southeast Asia. A number of Lithuanian businesses are already operating in Singapore but there […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is to meet European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to discuss the critical situation in the country’s dairy sector and raise the issue of the safety of Belarus’ Astravyets nuclear power plant on Friday. […]
Five years ago, I wrote about the first time I saw the lands of Kaliningrad, known as the Karaliaučius region in Lithuanian. My first impression was depressing. […]
When NATO leaders gather in Warsaw on July 8 to 9, they will announce steps to beef up the alliance’s conventional force presence on its eastern flank. NATO also will shortly announce that the SM-3 missile defense site in Romania has achieved operational status. These moves will spur the Kremlin, with some fanfare, to announce military “countermeasures.” But those will be steps that Moscow almost certainly intends to take in any case. […]
It has often been remarked that politics can make strange bedfellows, bringing together groups that one could not imagine agreeing on anything. That is what has been happening in Latvia, where Latvian nationalists and ethnic-Russian residents of that Baltic country—for quite different reasons—both support restricting any further immigration into Latvia from the Russian Federation. […]
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