Foreign affairs
UN Security Council adopts Lithuania-initiated resolution on journalist protection
The UN Security Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution initiated by Lithuania on the protection of journalists in conflict situations. […]
Russia
Opinion
Opinion: Kremlin’s ghost over Riga Summit (II)
The European Union launched its Eastern Partnership programme in 2009, soon after Russia‘s 2008 war on Georgia. It was proposed by Poland and Sweden, with enthusiastic support from Lithuania. Russia has ever since been blaming the programme for trying to undermine its interests in the countries Moscow refers to as the “near abroad”. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Kremlin’s ghost over Riga Summit (I)
The European Union launched its Eastern Partnership programme in 2009, soon after Russia‘s 2008 war on Georgia. It was proposed by Poland and Sweden, with enthusiastic support from Lithuania. Russia has ever since been blaming the programme for trying to undermine its interests in the countries Moscow refers to as the “near abroad”. […]
Defence
NATO jets scrambled from Poland to accompany Russian transport airplane
NATO jets serving in the Baltic air policing mission were scrambled from Poland on Tuesday to identify a Russian military transport airplane An-26 flying above the Baltic Sea. […]
Foreign affairs
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Russian Duma member threatens to “redeem Vilnius and Klaipėda”
The European Union‘s Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas has called for an official Russian position on the public threats made on television by Duma member Vladimir Zhirinovsky “to redeem Vilnius and Klaipėda”. […]
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Foreign affairs
Opinion
Opinion: Lithuania does not invest into its most important ally
A visit several weeks ago by Kurt Volker, former US ambassador to NATO and currently the head of the McCain Institute, would have gone unnoticed by the Lithuanian public, if it weren’t for a few media interviews. And even if it was noticed, many must have thought it of little consequence. […]
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Duma speaker says Russia wants “normal relations” with Baltic states
Featured last night on the LTV1 news magazine De facto was Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, who said that Russia wanted “normal relations with the Baltic States, and to revive the dialogue”. […]
Defence
NATO jets took off from Lithuania twice last week to accompany Russian planes
Fighter jets conducting the NATO Baltic air policing mission were scrambled twice last week to intercept a Russian military aircraft flying in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea between mainland Russia and its region of Kaliningrad, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]
Defence
European Union
EU promises to Eastern partners are sufficient, Lithuanian president says
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, says that the promises made to Eastern partners are sufficient, although the West has not committed itself to accepting them into the EU in the future. […]
Politics
Lithuanian president would not comment on Russia’s spy claim
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday refused to comment on Russia‘s claim that it had detained a Lithuanian military intelligence officer. […]
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Russia’s in spy catching game, former Lithuanian security chief says
The report on the detention of a Lithuanian intelligence officer in Russia is a response to the arrest of a Russian citizen, suspected of spying for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), in Lithuania, says Mečys Laurinkus, former chief of the Lithuanian State Security Department. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s strategic partnership with Poland in extreme disarray, EU diplomat Ušackas says
The European Union‘s (EU) Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas has expressed regret over the current state of relations between Lithuania and Poland. […]
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Russia claims to have caught Lithuanian spy
Russia‘s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday it had detained a Lithuanian intelligence officer. Lithuanian officials have not provided any comment on the report. […]
Global LT
Stockholm seminar discusses information challenges in Eastern Europe
Dr. Nerijus Maliukevičius, lecturer of Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences, Russian and East European Studies Centre, presented the report “Russia’s Use of Information Operations in the Baltic States” at the international seminar on “Information Operations as a Foreign Policy Tool – the Situation in the Baltic States and Consequences for Sweden” which took place in Stockholm on 19 May. […]
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Analyst: Ukraine needs to do homework and let EU see it done
The gloomy mood ahead of the EU Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga this week is in a stark contrast with the expectations that prevailed before the similar meeting in Vilnius one and a half years ago. […]
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Russia protests over “crucified Putin” installation in Latvia
An art installation in Latvia has angered the Russian government. The Russian embassy presented Riga with a letter of protest over a crucifix that bears remarkable resemblance to Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]