A Stockholm arbitration tribunal’s oral hearing for Lithuania’s suit against Russia‘s gas supplier Gazprom was completed on Thursday after the parties to the dispute made their closing statements. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Russia is not interested in escalating the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine, but the Kremlin finds it difficult to withdraw from the conflict without losing face on the international arena and inside the country. […]
A group of European lawmakers, including Lithuania’s representatives, have nominated murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov for the European Parliament‘s annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. […]
The European Union does not need a new Nord Stream gas pipeline that Russia‘s gas behemoth Gazprom is planning to build, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said, adding that the project will do great harm to Ukraine. […]
Invited by Russian ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov to visit Crimea, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius hit back by saying that he would wait for the invitation from Ukraine. […]
The fourth Eastern Partnership Summit was held in Riga on 21-22 May 2015. The joint Declaration of the Riga Summit did not reaffirm either the European perspective of the Eastern European Partnership countries consistently demonstrating the best performance or the political support to Georgia and Ukraine in visa liberalization that Tbilisi and Kiev were looking forward to. Quite the opposite, compared to the Vilnius Summit document adopted two years ago, the tone and ambition of the Riga Summit declaration seemed rather weakened. […]
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says he doubts there is a need for the Moscow House in the Lithuanian capital which is being constructed. […]
Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas calls Russian media reports of a probe allegedly launched in Russia into the recognition of the Baltic states’ independence in 1991 “propaganda”. […]
Lithuania is against exceptions for Russia‘s representatives on Europe’s blacklist, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday after Russian State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin was not allowed to attend the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly in Helsinki, sparking Russia’s anger. […]
Lithuanian energy minister believes that Stockholm arbitration court, which on Wednesday started hearing Lithuania’s suit against Russia‘s gas supplier Gazprom in which the government seeks more than a billion euros in compensation for overcharging of gas supplies, will rule in Lithuania’s favour. […]
Member of the Russian Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky, notorious for his eccentric and chauvinistic statements, is calling for a referendum to be organized in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia where people would be offered to vote for the countries to be included in the Russian Federation. Zhirinovsky openly announced that the referendum is not an attempt to allow the residents to exercise their democratic rights to voice their wishes, but to give them the opportunity to “agree becoming part of Russia again”. […]
Vilnius Regional Court on Tuesday sentenced a former Soviet police (militia) officer to five years in prison for the deportation of civilians during the Soviet times. […]
Russia‘s Prosecutor General’s Office has opened an investigation into the legitimacy of the independence of the Baltic states. The office is to look into whether a decision, made by the State Council of the USSR in 1991, to recognize the three breakaway states as independent nations was legal, newsru.com reports. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania decided on Tuesday to classify information about former KGB collaborators for 75 years after 80 MPs voted in favour, 12 were against and 17 abstained. […]
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania plans to evaluate actions of the Russian-language TV channel NTV Mir Lithuania, the watchdog’s chairman Edmundas Vaitekūnas says. […]
One month after a small Lithuanian aircraft, An-2, crashed into the Baltic Sea on 16 May, the public still knows very little about what happened and why. If officials in charge of the investigation know more, they keep it to themselves. […]
NATO fighter jets protecting the Baltic airspace were scrambled twice last week to intercept and escort two Russian planes flying in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea with their onboard transponders switched off. […]
Prosecutors from Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office are finishing the indictment in the January 13 case, with 69 people, mainly Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nationals, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. […]
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