Illegal migrants coming from Belarus were the biggest problem for Lithuania a couple of years ago, but the direction of illegal migration flows has changed and an increasing number of illegals now cross Lithuania’s border from Latvia, the commander of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service said on Friday. […]
Germany is to send more troops to Lithuania, the influential German news magazine Der Spiegel reports. “Due to requests from Eastern partners, NATO will send more troops to the border of Russia,” reports Der Spiegel, […]
Nord Stream 2, the controversial Russian-German pipeline project, is generating fierce opposition in Central and Eastern Europe as well as from the European Parliament and the European Commission. But could the opponents of the pipeline, owned 50% by Gazprom and 50% by some of the largest Western European companies, stop the project? […]
Russia’s economy will likely contract gradually over the next three to four years and then become increasingly socialized, as the government implements price and currency controls, monopolizes foreign trade, embarks on a large-scale nationalization of private industries, and increasingly regulates salaries and consumption. […]
A Lithuanian MP recently suggested that Russian soldiers may have landed on Lithuanian soil during a military exercise two years ago. […]
Russia‘s political elite are still searching for a new Russian identity years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the EU Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas told Žinių radijas. “It’s difficult, because times have changed, […]
Developers of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus say they will perform stress tests on the facility to make sure it is safe even in extreme circumstances. […]
As NATO and Russian officials are meeting for the first time in two years in Brussels on Wednesday, Lithuanian experts say Moscow will use the occasion to oppose NATO deployments in the Baltic States. […]
Lukashenko’s fortunes have changed. Once known as “Europe’s last dictator,” he has won friends in Europe, while antagonizing his traditional ally, Russia. It’s a situation that has left the Kremlin in a difficult positon: should it punish Belarus for its pro-Western tendencies? Or should it continue to prop up the Belarusian economy rather than risk further unrest in the region? […]
The US European Command said last weekend that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet “performed erratic and aggressive maneuvers”, flying within 50 feet of an American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea. […]
If the United States shot down a Russian plane over the Baltic it is unlikely Vladimir Putin would tolerate such an incident following the shooting down of a Russian plane by Turkey, said a leading […]
The warring parties in the Karabakh conflict, especially the Azerbaijani side, have decided to shake the status quo in the Caucasus. Violence could recur at any time and the latest fighting clearly demonstrates that the combined goodwill and cooperation of Moscow and Washington is no longer sufficient. […]
The European Commission‘s efforts to talk with Russia about opening up its markets for European pork did not meet with much success, according to EU commissioner for agriculture Phil Hogan. […]
The failure of oil-exporting countries to agree in Doha on freezing production is beneficial to Lithuania and other oil importers, a leading economist says. […]
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