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Lithuania’s UN ambassador calls for international condemnation of “illegal” elections in occupied Donbass
Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Raimonda Murmokaitė on Friday called on the international community to condemn the elections being organized by pro-Russian separatists in Donbass, Ukraine, on 2 November. […]
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Lithuania calls on Russia to withdraw troops from Ukraine and not to annex Abkhazia
At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, the Lithuanian ambassador called on Russia to withdraw troops from Ukraine and refrain from actions which would mean a de facto annexation of Abkhazia. […]
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Lithuanian foreign minister: Russia wants to legitimize annexation of Georgian breakaway regions
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said during a visit in Georgia that Russia‘s proposal for Abkhazia to sign a special agreement is an attempt to de facto annex the region. […]
European Union
EU not suggesting to soften Russia sanctions, Lithuanian foreign minister says
Nobody during the Monday meeting of EU foreign ministers suggested softening the existing sanctions against Russia, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said. […]
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Opinion
Opinion: Against Russia’s new military strategy, NATO wavers as Lithuania prepares
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on 15 October that she would push to limit Russian television broadcasts inside the country. The statement came only two days after Defence Minister Maj. Gen. Jonas Vytautas Žukas announced plans to form a new rapid reaction force in Lithuania. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian ambassador: Russia is using propaganda, manipulations and pressure at UN
The Ukraine issue must be kept in focus of the international community’s attention and the Russian “propaganda machine” must be countered, says Lithuania’s Ambassador to the United Nations Raimonda Murmokaitė. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Russia’s attempts to discredit Lithuania internationally
Lithuania torpedoes all constructive international initiatives dedicated to solving the problems in Ukraine – such complaints are heard from the lips of the representatives of Russia with regards to our diplomats in the most influential international organization – the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). […]
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European Union
Eastern Partnership is dead. Long live Eastern Partnership
Without much of a fervour or pomp last week saw the end of the most prominent and quite efficient couple in the Foreign Affairs Council. Carl Bildt and Radoslaw Sikorski left the stage and took up their new roles. It’s an end of an era and I am afraid also an end to their most precious pet project of the two gentlemen – Eastern Partnership. […]
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Society
Information war in Lithuania: Five-pointed stars and computer games
With a massive propaganda machine at its disposal, the Kremlin has already started an information war in Lithuania, claims an officer of the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence. […]
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Latvian MEP slammed by EP leaders for comments on Crimea
European Parliament President Martin Schulz has sent a letter to European Parliament Member from Latvia Tatjana Zdanoka (Latvian Union of Russians), telling her that he has immediately informed the proper authorities in Ukraine regarding her comments about Crimea, which are “in contradiction to the EU’s stance”. […]
Opinion
Opinion: What Putin intends to provoke in the Baltic countries
Just as the purpose of terror is to terrorize, the purpose of provocation is to provoke – and if the targets of a provocation understand what the one engaging in it wants to provoke, they will be in a much better position not only to prepare for it but to avoid falling into the trap the provocateur hopes to set and to deny him a victory. […]
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Opinion: The EU and Russia – how to obtain independence legitimately
Once again there is an air of crisis across Europe. […]
European Union
EU might ease sanctions on Russia
The European Union could review sanctions it has imposed on Russia on 30 September, according to an EU source who spoke to the Russian daily Kommersant. The issue might be taken up by permanent representatives of the EU member states in Brussels later this month. […]
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