The United States had notified Lithuania in advance of the publication of the Senate report about prisoner torturing performed by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in secret detention centres, including one possibly in Lithuania. […]
Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America Žygimantas Pavilionis thinks that the US administration under President Barack Obama has been naive in wishing to “reset” relations with Russia, but this is the trap that every new president falls into. He hopes, however, that Obama’s successor – be it Hillary Clinton or someone else – will have a better grasp on geopolitical realities of Eastern Europe. […]
A small episode recently has shown that Russian President Vladimir Putin feels like he is a know-it-all who can ignore his advisory team. It happened in Beijing during the fireworks show for the APEC summit participants. […]
The situation is Ukraine has gotten more ominous. Additional armed Russian troops have entered the country’s territory a week ago, accompanied by heavy weaponry and tanks. This mobilization of Russia‘s armed forces is not the first such occurrence, but the significance lies in its timing on the eve of several high-profile international meetings. […]
United States President Barack Obama, a Democrat, will be constrained in his internal policies after the Republican Party took control of the Senate, a Lithuanian political expert says, adding that he will nonetheless continue deciding on key foreign policy issues. […]
The United States should find a possibility to secure the supply of natural gas to Lithuania and other small countries, US Senator James Inhofe has said in a letter to President Barack Obama. […]
On Wednesday, US President Barack Obama participated in a video conference with Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President François Hollande of France, and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy. They discussed the international response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, including steps that are being taken to counter the spread of the disease. […]
It is too early to lift the existing sanctions on Russia, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius are attending UN events and bilateral meetings in New York. […]
The West can still stop Vladimir Putin with economic and political measures, but if he is allowed to get away with Ukraine, NATO could face a threat of a nuclear stand-off with Moscow, says Russian political analyst Andrey Piontkovsky. […]
The high-level visit of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to Washington on 18 September attracted much greater attention in the US capital than any other recent visit of a foreign head of state. His busy schedule saw President Poroshenko in the morning addressing the House of Representatives and the Senate in a joint meeting of US Congress before heading to the White House to meet President Barack Obama in the afternoon. […]
NATO leaders have a lot to talk about at this year’s summit in Wales, expected to be the toughest since the Cold War ended. […]
US President Barack Obama in Estonia reaffirms support for the Baltic states that fear Russia‘s undeclared war in Ukraine could be repeated at home. […]
United States President Barack Obama and Great Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron stated on Thursday that NATO should ensure permanent military presence in Eastern Europe. […]
The United States and Russia entered a new and more dangerous phase of their pseudo-Cold War this week. […]
Forecasts suggest that Russia’s restrictions on imports from the European Union will have a negative effect on Lithuania’s economy; however, this will not affect the country’s 2015 defence budget, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
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