Crimea

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Lithuanian president hopes for extension of Russia sanctions

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė hopes the European Council will extend the sectoral sanctions for Russia, in place since last July,…

10 years ago
  • European Union

EP backs Landsbergis’ report on EU-Russia relations

The European Parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of a report drafted by Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis on the European…

10 years ago
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US ambassador to NATO: Russia’s aggression in Ukraine completely changed rules of the game

At a press conference at the Latvian Foreign Ministry, United States Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute said that Russia's aggressive…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: It is now or never that Ukraine will slip out of Russia’s grip

While Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was pompously comparing the “victory” of the Crimea annexation to the fall of Berlin…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Kremlin’s ghost over Riga Summit (II)

The European Union launched its Eastern Partnership programme in 2009, soon after Russia's 2008 war on Georgia. It was proposed…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian politicians propose turning to international court over Crimean annexation

Lithuania's conservative party, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has suggested initiating a UN General Assembly resolution on turning…

10 years ago
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Ukrainian MFA issues statement on deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944

The following is a statement of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 and…

10 years ago
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Lithuanian ambassador: Anti-government protests in Ukraine incited by interest groups

Lithuania's new Ambassador in Kiev Marius Janukonis says that Ukraine currently has many economic problems, which might give cause for…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: The meaning of Victory Day in Russia

On 8 May, Lithuania is joining Europe in commemorating victory over Nazism. Russia celebrates its own Victory Day on 9…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian UN ambassador meets with chairman of Crimean Tatar Mejlis

On 27 April in New York, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, met with Refat Chubarov,…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: The Russians are coming to occupy the Baltic states

I purposefully chose a title for my piece to evoke the notorious phrase from 1949 by the then US Secretary…

10 years ago
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Russian media rejects EU envoy’s “Crimea annexation” article for fear of criminal prosecution

A Russian media outlet has refused to publish an article written by EU Ambassador to Moscow Vygaudas Ušackas, who uses…

10 years ago
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Russian bikers’ flirtation with Kremlin politics sparks protest from Lithuanian fellows

Global politics is undermining the international solidarity of the biker community. Lithuanian bikers have declared they do not want to…

10 years ago
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Vilnius think tank calls on Ukraine to make use of truce for reforms

Lithuanian and foreign experts have called on Ukraine to make use of a fragile truce with pro-Russian separatists and carry…

10 years ago
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Andreas Umland: New social deal in Russia is “No serious political participation, but Bread and Circuses”

Andreas Umland, German political scientist and senior research fellow at Kiev-based Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, speaks about Russian domestic politics,…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Turkey to send observer mission to Crimea, Foreign Minister Cavusoglu says

Turkey condemns the persecution of Tatars in Crimea and will shortly send an observer mission to the peninsula annexed by…

10 years ago

Russia blackmails NATO over Baltics

Russia has threatened to use “nuclear force” to defend its annexation of Crimea and warned that the “same conditions” that…

10 years ago

Dutch politician suggests “second Yalta conference” to confirm Russia’s gains in Ukraine and Baltic sovereignty

Former Dutch EU commissioner and former leader of the liberal VVD party Frits Bolkestein thinks that Europe, the United States…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

German foreign minister and US Congressional delegation on visit in Lithuania

Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and a US Congressional delegation are visiting Lithuania on Thursday, with the situation in Ukraine…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Will conscripts be trained for hybrid warfare?

What kind of war will Lithuania’s conscripts be preparing for? Hybrid conflicts that evolve into local mixed wars? People who…

10 years ago