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NATO defence ministers to work out details on military staffs in Eastern Europe

February 4, 2015 BNS 0

NATO‘s defence ministers will decide on Thursday on additional security measures in response to Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine. […]

Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian defence ministers

Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian brigade plans move forward

February 2, 2015 BNS 0

This week, Lithuania’s government intends to discuss draft laws on the Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian agreement to set up a joint military brigade. […]

Belarus and Armenia re-evaluate relations with Russia

January 31, 2015 STRATFOR 0

Recent developments indicate that two of Moscow’s most loyal allies in the former Soviet periphery, Belarus and Armenia, may be reassessing their ties with Russia in light of the country’s standoff with the West. […]

NATO units set for Lithuania and five other eastern member states

January 30, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

NATO is deploying small units in six eastern European nations to help co-ordinate a spearhead force set up in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, AP reports. […]

From left to right, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Security Policy Department Deputy Director Malgorzata Kazmierski, Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist and ambassador Eitvydas Bajarūnas

Lithuania transferred NATO Contact Embassy in Sweden functions to Poland

January 29, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 28th January 2015, the Embassy of Lithuania in Sweden and the Embassy of Poland in Sweden jointly hosted the event to mark the transfer of duties of the NATO Contact Point Embassy from the Embassy of Lithuania to the Embassy of Poland. Event took place at the Residence of the ambassador of Lithuania. Lithuania held NATO Contact Embassy in Sweden functions in 2013-2014. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister joins Holocaust remembrance event in Auschwitz

January 28, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 27 January 2015, Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, together with the delegation led by the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in Auschwitz, Poland. […]

Lithuanian president to attend Holocaust memorial events at Auschwitz

January 26, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Warsaw on Tuesday to attend a memorial day of Holocaust victims at the Auschwitz concentration camp together with other state leaders and representatives of international organizations. […]

Lithuanian president to attend Holocaust remembrance events in Poland

January 15, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will attend Holocaust remembrance events in Poland, her press service told BNS on Thursday. […]

Vladimir Putin with President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolić

Newsweek: Putin seeks to influence radical parties in bid to destabilise Europe

January 14, 2015 Elisabeth Braw 0

This past November, Russia’s Berlin ambassador, Vladimir Grinin, invited two representatives of the surging new party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) for a meeting. According to German news media, Grinin offered the party strategic advice. […]

Lithuanian-Polish tensions are gift to Putin’s Russia, Michnik says

January 13, 2015 BNS 0

Ethnic tension between Lithuania and Poland is a great gift to Vladimir Putin‘s Russia, says former Polish dissident Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief of the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. Michnik was awarded the Freedom Prize 2014 in the Lithuanian Seimas on Tuesday as Lithuania marks the Freedom Defenders’ Day. […]

Michnik to Lithuania: Poland always was, is and will be with you

January 13, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Despite differences, Poland always was, is and will be with you, said the Polish public figure, one of the leaders of Poland’s oppositional movement Solidarity, editor-in-chief of Poland’s largest newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Adam Michnik. […]

Stratfor: Poland and Baltic states will continue to promote Ukraine’s Western ties

January 11, 2015 STRATFOR 0

As the standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine continues into 2015, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will come to play an increasingly important role. Even before the crisis, the three Baltic states — as well as neighboring Poland — were among the most active EU member states attempting to bring Ukraine closer to the West and to challenge Russia’s role in the former Soviet periphery. Their efforts along these lines will intensify this year. Ultimately, however, more powerful players in the standoff will limit the impacts of their efforts, particularly Germany and the United States. […]

Poland sending four MiG-29s to Lithuania for air policing mission

January 8, 2015 BNS 0

Four MiG-29 fighters of the Polish Air Force will land at the Lithuanian Air Force Base in the northern city of Šiauliai on Thursday to join the Baltic air policing mission. […]

Opinion: Lithuania’s Russian-speakers – what they’re for and what they’re against

January 5, 2015 Karolis Jovaisas 0

Do Lithuania’s ethnic Russian citizens make integration into the society a priority or do they do quite the opposite, using the privileges of Lithuanian citizenship and leaning nevertheless toward Mother Russia? Is being Russian not just a question of blood and faith but also of identifying with Russian civilization and a fragmented nation that must be united? […]

Lithuania’s power interconnections with Poland and Sweden to be launched within year

January 4, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The construction of high voltage interconnections LitPol Link and NordBalt to connect Lithuania with Poland and Sweden is moving ahead: two thirds of NordBalt and half of LitPol Link works have been completed since last spring. LitPol Link and NordBalt will be put into operation after twelve months, at the end of 2015, Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator Litgrid said in a statement. […]

Four Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets of the Italian Air Force landed at the Air Base of the Lithuanian Air Force in the northern Lithuanian city of Šiauliai on Sunday as Italian troops are to take over responsibility for NATO’s Baltic air policing mission. […]

Polish GROM air-defence system arrives in Lithuania

December 22, 2014 BNS 0

The first shipment of the Polish-made air-defence missile systems GROM have arrived in Lithuania, the Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]