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Russia paying financial compensation? A fata morgana

December 23, 2015 Jeroen Bult 0

The issue re-appeared rather unexpectedly. On 5 November, after a meeting in Riga, the Justice Ministers of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania released a statement, in which they peremptorily declared that their countries had been occupied by and had been “exploited for political and economic needs” by the Soviet Union. The “enormous demographic and socio-economic losses”, caused by “the totalitarian communist occupation regime of the USSR.” should be “calculated in a scientifically-justified manner”, they said. The final step would be that they would “claim legally and factually justified compensation from the Russian Federation”. […]

Reforms needed to put Georgia on European track

December 18, 2015 LT Daily 0

Bringing Georgia closer to European but also Atlantic institutional structures continued to be one of Lithuania’s most important foreign policy objectives this year. Despite Russia’s creeping occupation efforts over the summer and the ramping up of its massive anti-Western propaganda machine, the small South Caucasus country is still firmly resolved to follow the Euro-Atlantic course. […]

Lithuania contributes EUR 150,000 to refugee fund

December 11, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuania has transferred EUR 150,000 to the Migrant and Refugee Fund (MRF). […]

Lithuania signs Council of Europe’s convention against money laundering

October 29, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The Ambassador of Lithuania to the Council of Europe, Laima Jurevičienė, and the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, have signed the Council of Europe’s Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism. […]

Local elections in Ukraine ‘solid and mature’, Lithuanian MP says

October 26, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Member of the Lithuanian Parliament Emanuelis Zingeris (Homeland Union), who is observing local government elections in Ukraine, says the vote is being handled “in a solid and mature manner”. […]

Opinion: The Riga Summit and its outcomes

July 8, 2015 George Rukhadze 0

The fourth Eastern Partnership Summit was held in Riga on 21-22 May 2015. The joint Declaration of the Riga Summit did not reaffirm either the European perspective of the Eastern European Partnership countries consistently demonstrating the best performance or the political support to Georgia and Ukraine in visa liberalization that Tbilisi and Kiev were looking forward to. Quite the opposite, compared to the Vilnius Summit document adopted two years ago, the tone and ambition of the Riga Summit declaration seemed rather weakened. […]

Two Lithuanian co-productions receive Eurimages funding

June 26, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Eurimages, the Council of Europe‘s film support fund, extended a grant of EUR 50,000 to the film Deadweight directed by Ignas Miškinis. The film is produced by Tremora (Lithuania) and coproduced by Film Angels Productions (Latvia), reports the Lithuanian Film Centre. […]

Jurevičienė appointed Lithuanian ambassador at Council of Europe

June 1, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday signed a decree oappointing diplomat Laima Jurevičienė as the country’s new ambassador to the Council of Europe. […]

Human rights organization visits Lithuanian spying suspect in Moscow prison

May 27, 2015 BNS 0

The Lithuanian citizen held in custody in Moscow on the suspicion of spying has received a visit from human rights organizations. […]

Ukrainian MFA issues statement on deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944

May 18, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The following is a statement of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 and current measures applied by the Ukrainian Government for protection of rights of the deported nations. […]

Lithuanian MEP suggests dedicating 2016 to fight violence against women

May 13, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Vilija Blinkevičiūtė together with her colleagues has proposed that 2016 should be named the European year to fight violence against women. The initiative has been supported by over 400 MEPs. […]

UK Ambassador David Hunt: Remember Crimea

March 18, 2015 David Hunt 0

A year ago, the Kremlin helped stage an illegal and illegitimate “referendum” in Crimea that culminated in Russia annexing Crimea from Ukraine, redrawing the map of Europe by force, and deepening the burgeoning crisis in east Ukraine. […]

Lithuania makes progress in corruption prevention, according to GRECO report

February 12, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

In a report published on 11 February, the Council of Europe Anti-Corruption Group (GRECO) acknowledges the comprehensive legal and institutional framework developed by Lithuania to prevent and fight corruption among members of parliament, judges and prosecutors. It also stresses that the authorities now need to shift their focus to ensuring that the legal norms are well understood and properly enforced, GRECO said. […]

Vytautas Leškevičius appointed as Lithuania’s permanent representative to NATO

February 10, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Vytautas Leškevičius has been appointed as Lithuania’s permanent representative to NATO after President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed a relevant decree. […]

PACE extends sanctions against Russian delegation

January 29, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has extended sanctions against Russia until a plenary session in April. The sanctions include suspension of voting rights, participation in standing committees and monitoring of elections as part of PACE delegations. […]

Lithuania calls for further suspension of Russian delegations rights at Council of Europe PA

January 23, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to be held in Strasbourg on 26–30 January will address the question of whether to approve the credentials of the Russian delegation to be renewed in 2015 at the expiry of the sanctions applied by the PACE against the Russian delegation because of the annexation of Crimea and the escalation of military tensions in eastern Ukraine. […]