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Opinion: Information war – no need for mobilization yet

August 22, 2014 DELFI EN 0

The heralds of information wars are disconcerted, identify ever more battlefields, call on proper mobilisation. The latest example is the response of Aleksandras Matonis to a report aired on the Russian TV, in which members of the expedition Mission Russia have been referred to as tourists following the traces of the WW II victims and reportedly hoping that in the future joint Russian-Lithuanian groups would be travelling Europe to pay homage to the fallen Soviet soldiers. The leader of the expedition said such hope was actually expressed by the Russian journalist. […]

Lithuania’s gas security: Risks and opportunities

August 22, 2014 Agnia Grigas 0

There is a long-held view that the Russian gas supply to Lithuania is unlikely to be cut-off because Lithuania serves as a gas transit state to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. In other words, the same gas pipeline feeding Lithuania, also supplies the Russian enclave. According to this argument, Moscow would be hesitant to turn off the gas supply to Lithuania because it would result in an automatic cut in the gas supply to Kaliningrad. […]

The Russian information war in Lithuania

August 21, 2014 Jakob Ljungman 0

Lithuania is one of many countries where Russia is waging war for hearts and minds – the information war. It is a war fought on television, the internet, and newspapers without any loss of human life. The goal, however, is the same as in any classic warfare scenario: controlling the central political processes of the enemy state. […]

Lithuanian producers may lose 145 million euros because of Russian embargo

August 21, 2014 ELTA EN 0

According to the calculations of Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė, losses of Lithuanian dairy and meat producers may possibly amount to LTL 500 million (EUR 145 million), because of food product embargo imposed by Russia. […]

Russia closes four McDonald’s in Moscow

August 21, 2014 Reuters 0

Getting a Big Mac in Moscow is about to get a lot harder. […]

Lithuania’s dairy and meat producers will not receive compensations from state budget

August 20, 2014 ELTA EN 0

The Government has not approved the proposal to use budget funds to partially compensate dairy and meat producers’ losses suffered due to Russia‘s embargo on food imports. […]

Lithuania’s most wanted criminal detained in Russia

August 20, 2014 BNS 0

One of the most wanted criminals in Lithuania, Romas Zamolskis, 44, has been detained in Russia, Lithuania’s police said on Wednesday. […]

Winter and Gazprom won’t wait: What the geopolitics of LNG will mean for the people of Ukraine and Europe

August 20, 2014 Agnia Grigas 0

As the crisis in Ukraine is escalating with the prospect of Russian military intervention, there is every reason to believe that Vladimir Putin will use other weapons at his disposal. Thus European nations are increasingly – and justifiably – worried about the impending winter months when Russia could ratchet up the pressure on Europe, as it has done in the past, by imposing another gas halt with the consequent loss of life and negative economic impacts. […]

Opinion: Putin’s white shield for terrorists in East Ukraine

August 19, 2014 DELFI EN 0

On the night between 11 and 12 August, a convoy of 280 Kamaz trucks set out from Moscow to East Ukraine, loaded, according to the Moscow Oblast authorities, with humanitarian aid for civilian residents in the war zone. Even though the Russians immediately marked the convoy with the International Red Cross flags, the organization itself had no knowledge of it. It was not until 16 August that the Red Cross received the manifest of the shipment. […]

Zapad-2013: A view from Helsinki

August 19, 2014 The Jamestown Foundation 0

As a full-fledged war between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed irregulars rages on in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas, Western defence experts are only now beginning to thoroughly assess the military lessons of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. […]

Lithuanian businesses have experience in diversifying after Russia’s trade restrictions

August 19, 2014 ELTA EN 0

When Russia imposed import bans in the past, traders successfully diversified their sales, shows the analysis carried out by the State Tax Inspectorate (VMI). […]

EU to cover losses of Lithuanian fruit and vegetable growers

August 19, 2014 BNS 0

The European Commission will cover losses incurred by Lithuanian agricultural producers because they cannot sell perishable products due to Russia‘s ban on fruit and vegetable imports. […]

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Latvia’s foreign minister: Russia cannot win economic war against West

August 19, 2014 The Baltic Course 0

The economic war between Russia and the West is and will be painful for both sides, but Russia cannot possibly win it, said Latvia‘s Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics an interview to the Latvian Television show “Rita panorama”, informs LETA. […]

Dmitry Rogozin’s clan: Visionaries and executors behind aggression towards Ukraine

August 19, 2014 Marius Laurinavicius 0

Researching the role, actions and interests of various most powerful officials of the Russian government can provide a gilmse into something more than just the state’s decision-making mechanism. […]

Turchynov: Europe should aid Ukraine with modern weaponry

August 18, 2014 BNS 0

Withstanding Russia‘s aggression, Ukraine is not only defending itself but is also defending the whole of Europe, therefore, the West should provide necessary military assistance, Oleksandr Turchynov, chairman of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, said in Lithuania on Monday. […]

Opinion: Putin grasped the political soul of the West

August 17, 2014 Vladimiras Laucius 0

Only now, after Russian missiles shot down the MH17 flight, does the West seem to experience something like a (small) shock. After all, until recently it urged Ukrainian President Poroshenko to sit down at the negotiating table with the terrorist ringleaders. […]

Opinion: Lies, damned lies and Russian disinformation

August 17, 2014 Paul Goble 0

The Russian Federation uses extensive propaganda, outright lies, and — most importantly — disinformation as part of the hybrid warfare it is waging against Ukraine and the West. Disinformation combines truth, what people want to be true, and cleverly disguised outright falsehoods. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister: EU united on well-founded sanctions against Russia

August 16, 2014 BNS 0

There’s a basis for the European Union‘s sanctions against Russia and the EU is united on the issue, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevčius says. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister concerned about reports of arms movement from Russia to Ukraine

August 16, 2014 BNS 0

Russia continues escalating the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine while shifting focus to the so-called humanitarian aid convoy, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]

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Lithuanian political scientist says Belarus could be next victim or Russian aggression

August 15, 2014 Ziniu radijas 0

After a visit to Minsk, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said that Lithuania had to maintain a dialogue with the government of Belarus. The minister pointed out that despite events in Ukraine, Western leaders continue to meet with Vladimir Putin, so why the dialogue with Minsk would be impossible? […]