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UK to send 1,000 troops and Typhoon jets to Baltic states

February 5, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The UK is to send up to 1,000 troops to a high readiness force and deploy four RAF Typhoon jets for air policing in the Baltic states to boost NATO’s collective security, the Defence Secretary has announced. […]

NATO defence ministers to work out details on military staffs in Eastern Europe

February 4, 2015 BNS 0

NATO‘s defence ministers will decide on Thursday on additional security measures in response to Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine. […]

NATO units set for Lithuania and five other eastern member states

January 30, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

NATO is deploying small units in six eastern European nations to help co-ordinate a spearhead force set up in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, AP reports. […]

Europe and Russia after South Stream

December 20, 2014 STRATFOR 0

The crisis in Ukraine, and in particular Russia‘s recent cancellation of the South Stream natural gas pipeline project, has had substantial ripple effects on the energy dynamics on the European continent. The Russians and Europeans both have put forth several potential replacements for the now scrapped pipeline, with Turkey likely to play a pivotal role either way. […]

Jeffrey Gedmin: Unless Europe puts values above commerce, we risk another Iron Curtain

November 22, 2014 Monika Garbaciauskaite 0

Unless the EU takes a tough stand on Russia‘s foreign policies, there will re-emerge deep divisions in the continent between a free Europe and a less free Europe, says Jeffrey Gedmin, president of the Legatum Institute in London and former president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. […]

Bulgaria feels threatened by Russia’s information war

August 27, 2014 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Bulgaria is in information war with Russia, says Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry report “Outlook 2020: Bulgaria and NATO in European defence”, published on the ministry website. […]

Bulgaria’s banking botch up

August 5, 2014 Daniel Freifeld 0

In late 1996, Bulgaria found itself beset with both a banking crisis and hyperinflation. Nine out of the country’s 10 largest banks were failing, and inflation topped 2,000 percent on an annualized basis a few months later. […]

John F Tefft, at the conference. Photo by Jonas Petronis

Former US Ambassador Tefft: the war situation has further alienated the Russian government from the population

September 22, 2023 0

Former Ambassador John F. Tefft, visiting from the United States for Leonid Donsky’s 6th conference “Will Russia Survive 2024?”, says that Russia’s fate is difficult to predict and depends on the outcome of the war. […]

Investment in military-use technologies: trap or opportunity?

September 22, 2023 0

Against the background of the war in Ukraine, the national defence industry is becoming more relevant, and the possibilities of producing both dual-use and military-use-only equipment or providing military-related services in Lithuania are being discussed. […]