United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein said during a meeting with Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics on Wednesday that he was satisfied with the situation of ethnic minorities and non-citizens in 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. […]
Russia has long attempted a campaign of mainly non-military means in Latvia consisting of numerous strategies taking place both in the country and its surrounding areas. These campaigns must be viewed in light of the severe military escalation in the Baltic Sea and in Eastern Europe, says Swedish analyst Jakob Ljungman in his recent report. […]
For the 6th year in a row, Lithuania retained its leading position in Europe in terms of fibre-optic (FTTH) Internet network penetration. According to the global ranking, Lithuania comes in number 8, the annual report of the FTTH Council Europe shows. […]
Lithuania’s Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Sinkevičius is meeting with Violeta Bulc, the European Commissioner for Transport, on Tuesday. During the meeting, the officials will discuss transport issues important to Lithuania, including the progress of the Rail Baltica project and its funding possibilities. […]
Lithuania is not far behind Estonia in direct investments from Finland with low wage levels, small taxes and a hungry workforce, Invest Lithuania reports. […]
Lithuania is sticking to its position on the Rail Baltica financing model and will ask the European Commission to provide around 160 million euros in funding directly and 30 million euros more through a joint venture based in Riga. Latvia does not object to that, with its transport minister saying that it is important to show that Lithuania is taking part in the project as a serious partner. […]
Lithuania will individually apply to the European Commission (EC) for approximately 165 million euros in support for Rail Baltica, the European standard gauge railway project. In addition, it will ask for further 20 to 30 million euros through RB Rail, a joint venture established by the three Baltic countries for this project, transport minister has said. […]
Troops from nine NATO countries took part in the main planning conference of the Saber Strike 2015 multinational exercises at the General Adolfas Ramanauskas Warfare Training Centre in Nemenčine on February 10-13. […]
Lithuania’s Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius has once again called upon the World Bank’s president to upgrade the status of the three Baltic states in this institution from emerging to developed countries. […]
The third event of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Baltic Assembly will be held in Šiauliai. The Education, Science and Culture Committee of the Baltic Assembly will have a meeting in Šiauliai University on Friday, 13 February 2015, the Seimas press service said. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Friday reiterated his call on Latvia to implement the EU’s third energy package and liberalize its gas market. […]
The Baltic and Benelux countries agree on the need to expand the existing sanctions against Russia by including more people into the blacklist. They also backed the introduction of new sectoral sanctions, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linkevičius said on Wednesday after meeting with his Baltic and Benelux counterparts in the Estonian capital of Tallinn. […]
Baltic small- and medium-scale companies stick to more moderate financial growth plans for 2015. However, despite the current geopolitical tensions, they see further growth opportunities. […]
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