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Russian military inspectors wrap up survey of Lithuanian units

July 24, 2015 BNS 0

Russian military inspectors visited Lithuania’s Gaižiūnai and Kazlų Rūda training areas on Thursday, finishing their two-day inspection of Lithuania’s compliance to the agreements on munitions. […]

London court puts end to litigation over ex-Snoras owners’ extradition to Lithuania

July 23, 2015 BNS 0

A London court has put an end to litigation over the extradition of Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, former shareholders of Lithuania’s bankrupt bank Snoras who have recently fled from the UK to Russia. […]

Dagens Industri: “Lithuania is a tiger in the European zoo”

July 23, 2015 Invest Lithuania 0

Lithuania is a tiger in the European zoo. The future looks bright for a country that chose a totally different path from Greece. Investors and entrepreneurs take note! […]

Palanga town to scale down memorial for WWII Soviet soldiers

July 23, 2015 BNS 0

The authorities of Lithuania’s coastal resort town Palanga plan to tone down the monument for killed Soviet soldiers in the town centre, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reports. […]

Lithuanian president to WSJ: Russia resorting to brutal Stalinist methods

July 23, 2015 BNS 0

Russia is looking back on its Soviet past and is increasingly using the methods of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in an article published on Thursday. […]

Vladimiras Antonovas, Raimondas Baranauskas

Lithuanian prosecutors still trying to locate former Snoras bank owners

July 21, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s prosecutors are still trying to locate former Snoras Bank shareholders, Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, who fled from the UK early in July. […]

Russian plane alerts NATO jets in Lithuania

July 21, 2015 BNS 0

NATO fighter jets stationed in the Lithuanian northern city of Šiauliai as part of the Baltic air policing mission were on Tuesday scrambled to identify a Russian reconnaissance plane Il-20 flying in the international space. […]

Lithuania foreign minister calls for more pressure on Russia over Georgia

July 21, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius says that the West is not responding sufficiently to the placement of border markers with Georgia, this way approaching the Tbilisi-controlled territory even more, and calls for more pressure on the Russian Federation. […]

Georgia’s Saakashvili: Baltics will be Russia’s next target

July 21, 2015 BNS 0

The Baltic states will be Russia‘s next target after Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to test NATO, Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia and now the governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, said in an interview on Tuesday. […]

Russia to conduct observation flights over Lithuania and Latvia

July 20, 2015 ELTA EN 0

As part of the Open Skies Treaty of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Russia will conduct observation flights over Latvia and Lithuania starting on Monday, according to Sergey Ryzhkov, the head of the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centre. […]

NATO jets alerted once last week by Russian plane

July 20, 2015 BNS 0

NATO fighter-jets serving in the air policing mission were scrambled once from Lithuania last week to identify a Russian warplane flying above the Baltic Sea. […]

Mission Siberia participants seen off to Russia

July 18, 2015 BNS 0

Participants of the 16th annual initiative Mission Siberia were on Friday seen off to the Russian region of Tomsk. […]

Oh Brutus, Where Art Thou?

July 17, 2015 Vaja Tavberidze 0

“I would compare Putin to the Roman leaders in the time of Roman Empire’s agony. While Caesar’s Rome was the Rome of ascendancy, Putin’s Rome is the one of decay. The regime in Russia shows all signs of agony,” says Kremlinologist Lilia Shevtsova. […]

Opinion: A new test from Russia

July 17, 2015 Dovile Jakniunaite 0

A couple of days ago, on 10 July, news came that two new border signs sprang up in Georgia, declaring that here begins the “border of South Ossetia“. One of the signs moved about 300 metres from its original position into the zone controlled by Tbilisi, the other sign progressed forwards by about a kilometre. The new marking took away about ten hectares of territory from Georgia. […]