Defence
Statements about Russians landing in Lithuania were ‘hypothetical’, MP says
MP Artūras Paulauskas says his statements several weeks ago about a possible landing of Russian forces on the Lithuanian coast were “hypothetical”. […]
Russia
CORPORATE
Lithuania to help rehabilitate wounded Ukrainian soldiers
Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas opened NATO week in Kiev on Monday and agreed to bring 11 wounded Ukrainian soldiers to Lithuania for rehabilitation. Olekas also met with Ukrainian Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak and discussed […]
Defence
Linkevičius on NATO-Russia meeting: ‘I would like to be wrong in my scepticism’
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says he is sceptical about NATO‘s plans to hold the first official talks with Russia in two years this week. […]
Defence
US and Russia in war of words over another military encounter above Baltic Sea
US European Command said on Sunday that a Russian jet had made aggressive manoeuvres near a US reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea, a second incident between Russian and American forces in the region in the past week, Reuters reports. […]
Defence
No new NATO bases in Eastern Europe – US and German officials
The United States and Germany say that NATO will not build any new bases in countries like Poland. […]
CORPORATE
What could Russians have been doing on Lithuanian shores?
Russian OMRP Spetsnaz units may have landed on the coast of Juodkrantė two years ago. This suggestion by the chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee Artūras Paulauskas, has caused considerable turmoil and concern. […]
European Union
Politics
Lithuanian president tells politicians not to campaign on security
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has urged politicians to refrain from speculating on security issues, following a number of suspected border violations by Russia. […]
Defence
Lithuania should use Russian provocations to advance its national security, analyst says
The incidents in the Baltic Sea this week where Russian jets buzzed an American warship were widely reported in the Western media and Lithuania should use the occasion to push for more military support from its NATO allies, according to a Lithuanian analyst. […]
Defence
US warship ‘had right to shoot down Russian jets’ – Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that US warship, the USS Donald Cook, would have been within its rights to shoot down the Russian warplanes which flew within metres of the destroyer in the Baltic. […]
Defence
‘We will not cede space in the Baltic, we are not afraid’, says US warship commander after Russian flyby
The commander of the US warship buzzed by two Russian attack jets in the Baltic Sea has said that the US Navy will not cede space to Russian forces in the Baltic. He was speaking in Klaipėda where the USS Donald Cook has docked today. […]
Defence
Russian helicopters ‘crossed into Lithuanian territory’
Russian helicopters crossed into the Lithuanian territory from Kaliningrad on Tuesday. They were spotted visually, but not by a radar, the Ministry of National Defence has confirmed. […]
Defence
Russian jets swoop within metres of American warship in ‘simulated attack’ over the Baltic Sea
Several Russian Su-24 attack aircraft conducted a “simulated attack profile” against the USS Donald Cook warship in the Baltic Sea, with one of the jets on Tuesday flying within nine metres of the destroyer. […]
CORPORATE
National security threats report is itself a threat to Lithuania’s national security: Opinion
The latest annual report from the State Security Department (VSD), which contains a number of proposals to limit free speech, shows that siege mentality and remnants of Soviet thinking are still widespread in Lithuania. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian sentenced to 13 years for spying in Russia
A court in Russia‘s Kaliningrad region has found Yevgeny Mataitis, a dual Lithuanian-Russian citizen, guilty of high treason and sentenced him to 13 years in prison, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday. […]
Uncategorized
Nina Khrushcheva: Putin is a brilliant tactician, but a losing strategist
Each Russian leader picks a subject he is an expert in and Vladimir Putin‘s subject is history. “That is why in order to understand Russia, we must understand Russian history,” says Professor Nina Khrushcheva of the New School University in New York. […]
Defence
Uncategorized
The impact of Panama Papers in Eastern Europe – and rest of the world
On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift. […]
CORPORATE
Lithuania first to create ‘Savchenko black list’
Lithuania’s migration department has created a list of 46 people from Russia and Ukraine who were connected to the trial and prosecution of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko who will be prohibited from entering Lithuania. The […]
Opinion
Revealing Russia’s offshore addiction
The Panama Papers cannot do much damage to the reputation of Putin and his friends, and they have not exposed criminal activity by prominent Russians. But they shed light on a fundamental problem: not even elites trust Russia’s economic, legal, or political system. […]