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Lithuania’s new ambassador takes office in Ukraine

May 27, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Ukraine Marius Janukonis has handed credentials to the country’s President Petro Poroshenko, the Foreign Ministry said. […]

Europe remains open to Eastern partners, President Grybauskaitė says

May 21, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that at the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership Summit the EU will once again assure its commitment to cooperate with countries of Eastern Europe. However, the extent of cooperation will depend on the resolve of each country. […]

Ukrainian president appoints Lithuania’s former PM to advisory council

May 14, 2015 BNS 0

Ukraine‘s President Petro Poroshenko has appointed Lithuania’s ex-PM Andrius Kubilius as member of the advisory council for reforms, according to a decree published on the president’s official website on Wednesday. […]

President Grybauskaitė: Most important EU issues will be discussed in Aachen

May 13, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Aachen, Germany, on Wednesday to attend the Charlemagne Prize award ceremony. She is invited to take part in the festive events as laureate of the Charlemagne Prize 2013. […]

Lithuanian president to join end of WWII commemoration in Poland

May 7, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is travelling to Poland on Thursday to attend, alongside other European leaders, commemorative events marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. […]

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko

Ukraine official says Kiev is getting weapons from EU

April 28, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Ukraine is receiving weapons from some European Union countries, according to Ukraine’s deputy head of the president’s administration. […]

Opinion: War as a chance for Ukraine to become a normal state

April 2, 2015 Laurynas Jonavicius 0

Ukraine’s social order, characterized by limited access, has been an obstacle in the country’s attempts to create democracy and market economy during its entire post-soviet history. Recent Russian military aggression changed the balance of power within the country and opened a window of opportunity for Ukraine to transform itself from a limited access to open access order. Whether Ukraine will use this opportunity depends on relationship between the president and oligarchs. […]

Former Lithuanian PM invited to join Ukrainian president’s reform advisers team

April 1, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s former prime minister Andrius Kubilius has been invited to join the council of foreign advisers set up by Ukraine‘s President Petro Poroshenko to help implement reforms in the country. […]

Moldova’s gives highest state award to President Grybauskaitė

March 18, 2015 ELTA 0

President of Moldova Nicolae Timofti has signed a decree awarding the Order of the Republic (Ordinul Republicii) to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]

Opinion: Peace on paper

March 10, 2015 Viktor Denisenko 0

The world is still waiting for measures of the Minsk Agreement to be implemented. Ukraine experiences continual military confrontation, and situation in Debaltseve region has also worsened dramatically. According to the recent information thousands of Ukrainian troops could again be trapped in the Debaltseve boiler. The Ukrainian side denies siege possibilities, whereas separatists inform on their achievements in encircling Ukrainian troops. […]

President Grybauskaitė in Euromaidan anniversary event

President Grybauskaitė: Ukrainian people continue defending Maidan ideals

February 23, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė visited Ukraine‘s capital Kiev on Sunday, 22 February. Alongside other European leaders she attended commemorative events for Maidan’s anniversary, including the March of Dignity in memory of Maidan victims that took place in the centre of Kiev, the presidential press service said. […]

Opinion: Is Minsk the end, or just the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine?

February 20, 2015 Ian Bond 0

There is no doubt who gained most from the deal reached in Minsk on February 12th to end the conflict in Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a minimum, a frozen conflict will block Ukraine’s progress towards NATO and the EU; and if fighting resumes, the terms of the ceasefire will leave Ukrainian forces in a weaker position than now. […]

Lithuanian president: Russia violating truce in Ukraine, EU must respond

February 19, 2015 BNS 0

The West must tighten the existing sanctions against Russia in response to Moscow’s and pro-Russian separatists’ failure to comply with the Minsk agreement, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]

Poroshenko heads for eastern Ukraine, announces army pull-out from Debaltseve

February 18, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday flew to the military operation zone in Ukraine‘s eastern regions, reports Ukrainian media. […]

Lithuanian president to attend Maidan memorial events in Ukraine

February 18, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė will this week go to Ukraine to attend events to mark the anniversary of Euromaidan rallies. […]

Vytautas Landsbergis on Minsk agreement: It is worse than Munich

February 13, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-Soviet leader and honorary chairman of the conservative Homeland Union, says that the Minks agreement for ceasefire between Kiev’s forces and Moscow-supported separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine, which was signed on Thursday, is worse than the Munich agreement of 1938. […]

Vladimiras Putinas, Francois Hollande'as, Angela Merkel, Petro Porošenka

Lithuanian expert: Minsk talks outcome might be bad or very bad

February 12, 2015 BNS 0

The outcome of the ongoing talks in Minsk might be “bad” or “very bad”, says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, an analyst from the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre, commenting on the talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine that continue in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Thursday. […]