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Jonas Valančiūnas next to the USSR's coat of arms

Five Lithuanian basketballers win dubious honour of being named members of modern fantasy USSR team

December 16, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

A Russian sports website named sports.ru has given five Lithuanian basketball players the questionable honor of playing on that website’s modern-day USSR fantasy dream team. The article’s author recounted that four Lithuanian basketball players – Arvydas Sabonis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Valdemaras Chomičius and Rimas Kurtinaitis – played for the Soviet Union when its basketball team took the gold at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. […]

Sanctions on Russia must be extended, Polish president says

December 16, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Polish President Andrzej Duda believes that sanctions imposed on Russia should be prolonged as the Minsk Agreements are rather unlikely to be implemented on time. […]

Russia bans fish imports from Lithuania

December 15, 2015 LT Daily 0

Russia‘s federal veterinary and phytosanitary supervisory authority, the Rosselkhoznadzor, has banned the import of third country fish products via Lithuania. […]

Russian propaganda creates ‘parallel reality’ for Lithuania’s ethnic minorities

December 11, 2015 LT Daily 0

The State Security Department (VSD) of Lithuania, which is in charge of monitoring and dealing with national security threats, presented a report this week, outlining methods used by Russia to fund pro-Kremlin and anti-Western propaganda in Lithuania. […]

Foreign Minister Linkevičius on response to Russian aggression: Inaction itself can be provocative

December 10, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania and other countries in the Eastern block are looking for a clear and decisive message of support from the United States as Russian President Vladimir Putin tests NATO’s decisiveness and tries to fill the “gaps of influence” created by the West’s inability to protect international law and its own interests, said Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius in an interview with The Washington Times on Tuesday. […]

Russia using ‘illegal schemes’ to fund propaganda in Lithuania, MP says

December 9, 2015 ELTA EN 0

After hearing a report from the State Security Department (VSD) about how Russia disseminates propaganda in Lithuania, MP Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, says that illegal methods are used to fund media outlets and recruit journalists. […]

Lithuania imposes road tax on Russian trucks

December 9, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Following the Government’s decree, Russian carriers using Lithuanian roads will have to pay a road tax starting on 21 December. The move is a response to Russia’s decision to tax Lithuanian road carriers. […]

Opinion: Putin shoots Russia in the foot, again

December 9, 2015 Kestutis Girnius 0

There had been no doubt that Russia would respond vehemently to the downing of its military plane and would do everything to punish Turkey. Moscow did not waste any time introducing various economic sanctions and launching a fierce anti-Turkish propaganda campaign. […]

Lithuanians baffled after being mentioned in IS video

December 9, 2015 DELFI EN 0

A recent propaganda video, said to be produced by Islamic State (IS), names 60 countries as enemies of the terrorist organization. The flags of Lithuania and Estonia, too, briefly flash in the video, making it the first time that the Baltic states have been mentioned as targets of Islamic State terrorists. […]

Russia’s import ban on Lithuanian fish will not inflict ‘significant damage’

December 8, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Head of Lithuania’s State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) Jonas Milius says that a ban on the transit of fish products, imposed by Russia on Lithuania, will not inflict significant damage because Lithuania’s fish exports to Russia are relatively small. […]

Opinion: Winning back hearts and souls of Lithuania’s citizens

December 8, 2015 Monika Garbaciauskaite-Budriene 0

The West now faces bigger problems than Ukraine’s future or Russia’s plans for its neighbours. The growing threat of terrorism makes Russia more and more indispensable to its Western partners. That’s dangerous for the Baltic states because there’s no way that the Kremlin will renounce its aggressive goals, get lost in Syria or run out of resources for all of its front lines. […]

Minister Linkevičius: Any NATO-Russia conversation must include Ukraine issue

December 7, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

Now that Europe is facing numerous crises and cannot focus its undivided attention on assisting Ukraine, it is important not to trade one issue for another, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said to LRT programme Savaitė. […]

Russia says Montenegro’s invitation to NATO is ‘confrontational step’

December 3, 2015 ELTA EN 0

A new spiral of NATO expansion directly affects Russia‘s interests and provokes a response, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a commentary released on Wednesday over NATO’s invitation to Montenegro to join the alliance. […]

Lithuania’s foreign minister underscores need to fully implement Minsk agreements

December 1, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 1 December in Brussels, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius participated in a discussion dedicated to the implementation of the Minsk agreements, sanctions against Russia, and other related issues, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania (MFA) said. […]

Lithuanian president’s office: Russia sanctions to stay in place until Minsk agreements are implemented

December 1, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The European Union‘s (EU) sanctions against Russia will remain in place until Minsk agreements are fully implemented, says Renaldas Vaisbrodas, chief foreign policy advisor to the Lithuanian president. […]

Geopolitical tensions seen as biggest threat to Lithuania‘s financial system

December 1, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The key risks to Lithuania‘s financial system come from geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and a prolonged low interest rate period, according to a survey by the Bank of Lithuania. […]

Turkey has every right to protect its airspace, President Grybauskaitė’s advisor says

December 1, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Chief foreign policy advisor to the Lithuanian president Renaldas Vaisbrodas says Turkey had every right to shoot down a military jet which violated its airspace. […]

Opinion: Putin’s War on Terror

November 30, 2015 Jeroen Bult 0

Should the West embrace Russia as a partner in the struggle against terrorism, now that the heartland of European Enlightenment, France, has been hit by radical-islamist assaults again, and should it give less priority to Ukraine’s ordeals? […]

European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis

EU Commissioner Andriukaitis criticizes Lithuanian president for refusing to work with Russia

November 30, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has recently said that Lithuania will not join any coalition against the Islamic State that includes Russia. Vytenis Andriukaitis, Europoean Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, has publicly criticized such a position, LNK TV news programme reports. […]

VSD head: No need to raise terrorism threat level in Lithuania

November 30, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

There is no need to announce a higher level of terrorism threat in Lithuania, because the State Security Department (VSD) is working to monitor the situation in the country and cooperating with foreign partners, the head of the State Security Department, Darius Jauniškis, told the LRT programme Savaitė. […]