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Lithuanian specialist will help Ukraine implement reforms, foreign minister says

August 26, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Ukraine will receive a Lithuanian specialist who will help the country implement economic and integration reforms. The specialist who will provide assistance to the reform group established within the Ukrainian president’s administration will be chosen and dispatched as soon as in September, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, who visited Kyiv last week and met with President Petro Poroshenko, told the radio Žinių Radijas. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister: Germany’s wish not to harm Russia is understandable

August 26, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says he understands why German Chancellor Angela Merkel wishes to find a solution to the Ukrainian crisis that would not harm Russia. He adds, however, that it is just as important not to harm Ukraine either. […]

Aggression in Ukraine: what consequences await its architects?

August 26, 2014 Marius Laurinavicius 0

In the first article about Dmitry Rogozin’s clan, I discussed how this clan developed and gained strength. However, in the context of aggression against Ukraine, it is crucial to focus attention not just on Rogozin and his clan’s ideology or rhetoric. […]

Why Donelaitis’ Metai is on par with Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey

August 26, 2014 Linas Jegelevicius 0

The Lithuanian epic poem Seasons (Metai) is a canonic masterpiece of early Lithuanian literature written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775 in the Prussian village of Tolminkiemis. In Metai, rebellious Donelaitis depicted indigenous Lithuanian serfs subjected to mistreatment at the hands of German colonizers. […]

US Ambassador McCarthy: Americans no longer “instinctively” think of Europe

August 25, 2014 BNS 0

More effort will be needed for the Americans to understand Europe due to demographic changes in the United States, including a rising number of Spanish-speakers, US Ambassador to Lithuania Deborah McCarthy says. […]

Why can Valdemar Tomaševski do as he likes?

August 25, 2014 DELFI EN 0

It seems that it’s not only Algirdas Butkevičius’s patience that Valdemar Tomaševski has exhausted. […]

Russia refuses to extradite ex-banker Romanov to Lithuania

August 25, 2014 BNS 0

Moscow says that it will not extradite Vladimir Romanov, owner of the bankrupt Ūkio Bankas, to Lithuania, as he has been granted asylum in Russia, the Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office informed on Monday. […]

Ukraine defiant on national day while rebels parade captured soldiers

August 25, 2014 Reuters 0

Ukraine marked its independence day with a military parade in the capital Kiev. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister discussed support to Ukraine during visit in Kiev

August 25, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, who met with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Kiev last Friday, discussed support to Ukraine and coordination of diplomatic efforts in the run-up to the summit meetings of the European Union, NATO and the United Nations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs. […]

Lithuania condemns Russia’s unilateral actions in Ukraine at UN Security Council

August 25, 2014 the Lithuania Tribune 0

At the UN Security Council consultations on 22 August, Lithuanian Permanent Representative Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė condemned Russia‘s unilateral decision to bring the convoy of humanitarian aid into the territory of Ukraine without the latter’s assent, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs. […]

Vilnius-Warsaw tensions only useful to the Kremlin, Polish media figure says

August 25, 2014 www.lrt.lt 0

Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief of the Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, says that disputes between Lithuania and Poland are ridiculous in the context of the events in Ukraine, and that a disruption of Vilnius-Warsaw relations is useful only to Moscow. […]

Opinion: To give in without a struggle?

August 24, 2014 DELFI EN 0

Political scientist Kęstutis Girnius waves away the phantom of the information war and tries to convince us that “Russian misinformation does not have a major impact”. He argues that Lithuanian participation in an information war would be futile, calling instead for cleaner objectivity in Lithuanian media coverage of Russia’s aggressions against Georgia and Ukraine. […]

Edward Lucas: The West skipped summer semester on geopolitics

August 24, 2014 Edward Lucas 0

The downing of the Malaysian airline MH17 finally turned the world’s eyes to the conflict in Ukraine. The criminal irresponsibility of putting advanced weapons in the hands of ill-trained, trigger-happy insurgents was obvious even to professional foreign-policy analysts. […]

US sanctions policy coordinator Daniel Fried: Russia seems to be digging itself deeper in the hole

August 23, 2014 Tomas Dapkus 0

Daniel Fried, coordinator for sanctions policy at the US State Department, says that it will take time before the sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and the European Union begin showing tangible results, but they undoubtedly will. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister in Ukraine: Russian convoy is “a provocation”

August 22, 2014 BNS 0

The entry of a Russian convoy into the territory of Ukraine is a provocation and a gross violation of international law, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said after meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev on Friday. […]

Calculations of Russia’s import embargo: EU set to lose EUR 5 billion per year

August 22, 2014 ELTA EN 0

According to calculations carried out by the Netherlands-based ING Group, restrictions imposed by Russia on food imports from the European Union may cost the EU USD 6.7 billion (EUR 5.0 billion) per year, RBC Daily reports. […]

President Grybauskaitė met with members of the US Congress

Lithuanian leaders call on US politicians to endorse Eastern Europe defence plan

August 22, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania backs the US initiative to strengthen NATO capabilities in the Baltic States, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said after a meeting with US congressmen on Friday. […]

Estonia’s defence minister: Estonia and Germany have different visions of keeping peace

August 22, 2014 News.err.ee 0

Estonian Defence Minister Sven Mikser expressed mild disappointment over the statements by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Riga, which indicated that Germany did not support permanent NATO bases in the Baltics for fear of angering Russia. […]

Opposition MP says government action plan of little use to Lithuanian farming industry

August 22, 2014 ELTA EN 0

MP Kazys Starkevičius of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), shadow agriculture minister, says that the action plan for 2014-2015, prepared by the Ministry of Economy and approved by the Government, which seeks to reduce losses of Lithuanian companies due to Russian trade sanctions, provides little hope for farmers, processors and carriers. […]

Dairy industry agreed not to reduce milk buying-in prices drastically

August 22, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Government officials and representatives of dairy processing industry have agreed that, in August, milk produced in Lithuania will be bought-in and the price will not be reduced by more than 12 percent, i.e., by approximately LTL 0.10 (EUR 0.03) per litre. […]