On Wednesday, US President Barack Obama participated in a video conference with Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President François Hollande of France, and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy. They discussed the international response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, including steps that are being taken to counter the spread of the disease. […]
Lithuania will send 15 members of its parliament to observe the forthcoming general elections in Ukraine in late October, Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė said after meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev on Friday. […]
The Russian president has scored a victory in Ukraine and against the West. Vladimir Putin has got more than he hoped for, and yet there’s still a lot more that he can win. The game has now become long-term and one in which the most important thing will be strategic patience. And it’s not clear if Russia has the upper here. […]
“If I wanted, in two days I could have Russian troops not only in Kiev, but also in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw, and Bucharest”, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said, according to a report in Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung on 18 September. […]
The European Union‘s decision to give Ukraine more time to fully implement a trade pact to assuage Russian pressure is a potentially dangerous step that leaves the gates open for Moscow to press for major changes to the deal, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius told The Wall Street Journal. […]
In a letter to Ukraine‘s President Petro Poroshenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened that Moscow will shut Russian markets for Ukrainian exports if Kiev implements any part of a trade agreement with the European Union. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius is cautious about a truce between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists, announced on Saturday. The minister welcomed attempts to stop violence but warned that demilitarized buffer zones might lead to a frozen conflict. […]
The EU on Thursday refused to confirm a report that President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine‘s leader that Russian troops could invade Eastern European capitals within two days if ordered. […]
The high-level visit of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to Washington on 18 September attracted much greater attention in the US capital than any other recent visit of a foreign head of state. His busy schedule saw President Poroshenko in the morning addressing the House of Representatives and the Senate in a joint meeting of US Congress before heading to the White House to meet President Barack Obama in the afternoon. […]
In a meeting with Ukraine‘s President Petro Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin allegedly threatened that, if he wanted, the Russian army could occupy Poland and the Baltic states in two days. […]
“It’s a historic moment,” was the reaction when Kiev and Brussels ratified the Ukrainian-EU Association Agreement on Tuesday. However, celebration might be somewhat premature, since Moscow, eager to keep Ukraine within its own sphere of influence and away from the EU, has won significant concessions. […]
Ratification of the Ukraine–European Union (EU) association agreement is a symbolic act, however, it is obscured by the decision to postpone enforcement of the free trade agreement amid pressure from Russia and some Ukrainian oligarchs, Lithuanian experts say. […]
In the last essay of the “Putin’s Russia” series we have reviewed the assumptions that suggest that namely Rogozin’s clan was the main architect and executor behind the Ukraine’s events. Therefore it would be natural to explore which Russian government clans are the most active in opposing the aggression towards Ukraine, and how they do it. […]
Even the groups within Russia‘s ruling elite that used to advocate open war with Ukraine are warming up to the possibility of peace talks, says political analyst Marius Laurinavičius of the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre. […]
Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko visits the eastern port of Mariupol Monday in a show of solidarity with its embattled citizens. […]
Explosions and smoke billowing on the horizon in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. […]
French President François Hollande sits down with Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko at the NATO summit in Wales after he moved to suspend delivery of a warship built for Russia amid the ongoing battle for control for Ukraine‘s east. […]
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