Milda Vainiutė
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Lithuania, Kazakhstan to sign deal on handover of convicts

Lithuania and Kazakhstan will sign an agreement on handover of convicted and jailed persons in Vilnius on Monday. […]

The Kremlin
Opinion

Eurasian Economic Union – reality or fiction?

Operating since 2015, the Eurasian Economic Union formed (EEU) over a relatively short period of time, and passed through all three stages of integration – from the customs union established in 2010 to the single market in 2012, culminating with the integrated economic union, which included coordination of the individual state economic policies starting in 2015. In principle, this inclusive structure and institutional framework is very similar to the European Union (EU), the difference being that the latter’s integration process, covering not only the single internal market but also various policies, took place over almost 40 years. The integration process arises from the bottom up. […]

No Picture
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The impact of Panama Papers in Eastern Europe – and rest of the world

On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift. […]

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Kazakhstan follows Russia’s lead in banning Baltic imports

The Veterinary Supervision Authority of Kazakhstan has decided to introduce temporary restrictions on imports of Estonian and Latvian fish products, including canned fish, following the lead of Russia, Public Broadcasting reports. […]

No Picture
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Putin’s middle class is fleeing to Latvia

Vitaly Mansky, a Russian documentary filmmaker, knows exactly when he decided to establish a bolthole outside the Russian Federation. It was the spring of 2014, and Mansky was in Spain for a film festival, watching news in his hotel room. An anchor at one of the Kremlin-controlled news stations reported that Russia’s parliament had allowed President Vladimir Putin to use the army to protect his compatriots in other countries. In other words, they had legalized the annexation of Crimea and provided support for pro-Russian combatants in Eastern Ukraine. […]

Andrey Piontkovsky
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Andrey Piontkovsky: Putin plans to play poker, not chess

Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to blackmail the West with a nuclear weapon. So says Russian policy expert Andrey Piontkovsky. He reasons that if the “little green men” and Russian troops turn up in Estonia, for example, Vladimir Putin would warn NATO not to intervene because that would be a Russian World affair and he’d threaten to use nuclear weapons if the Alliance took military action against him. […]

Refugee camp in Georgia
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Kremlin said to be developing plan for partitioning Georgia

Since the start of this year, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has invaded Ukraine, annexed Crimea and pushed for Ukraine’s “federalization.” The severe international concern caused by these actions was further compounded last month (August 2014) by Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s statement in Yalta that after Moscow subdues Ukraine, it will move against other post-Soviet countries in order to rebuild the Russian Empire. Not surprisingly, many countries in the region have thus been forced to consider where the Kremlin might move next and what means it might employ against them—from demands for “federalization” to open aggression. […]

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Defence

Lithuanian arm inspectors check Kazakhstan’s military units

On 18-22 August, inspectors of the Arms Control Unit of the Lithuanian Armed Forces are visiting military units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan based in the region of Astana. The Lithuanian delegation of arms control inspectors will also observe multinational Exercise Vzaimodeistvije 2014 at Spassko Training Rangem, the National Ministry of Defence said. […]