Continuing geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe will continue to affect Lithuania’s economy in 2015, says Nerijus Mačiulis, chief economist at Swedbank. […]
Europe must learn its history lessons and prevent the rise of a new aggressor whom some people don’t want to see, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday as the world marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė sees Brussels’ proposal to Moscow to hold talks on lifting the existing food embargo with individual EU countries as a “deplorable precedent” and believes that Lithuania’s representative, European Commissioner for Heath and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, must take responsibility for that, a presidential adviser said on Tuesday. […]
The European Union (EU) will be unified in talks with Russia over possible lifting of sanctions for certain food products, Phil Hogan, EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, said after a Farm Council meeting on Monday. […]
European Parliament President Martin Schulz on Monday called on Russia to allow a delegation led by Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis to enter the country despite tension between Brussels and Moscow. […]
Russia’s persistent support to separatists has led to the Mariupol tragedy when around 30 civilians were killed and over 90 were injured when the Ukrainian city came under a rocket attack, Lithuanian Ambassador to the United Nations Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė said on Monday. […]
On 26 January, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius met with UK Minister for Europe David Lidington in London and discussed possible results of the forthcoming EU’s Foreign Affairs Council. […]
NATO fighter-jets conducting the Baltic air policing mission were scrambled three times last week. […]
Alexander Udaltsov, the Russian Ambassador to Lithuania, has released a public letter, congratulating the country on “the 70th anniversary of Lithuania’s liberation from the Germans-fascists”. The ambassador also makes references to topical issues of today, like the conflict in Ukraine, that are designed to provoke controversy, a Lithuanian political observer says. […]
The United Nations (UN) Security Council is holding a meeting on Monday at Lithuania’s request to discuss the situation in Ukraine. […]
The Russian Federation’s propaganda and other aggressive actions in the information space have recently been the subject of buoyant discussion within the context of events in eastern Ukraine. Crucial, however, to an in-depth and factual debate on this subject is to take a look at the historical context and roots of the new Russian propaganda. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius discussed the situation in Ukraine in a telephone conversation with high-ranking officials of the European Union (EU) and NATO on Sunday. […]
The military attacks in Ukraine that claim civilian lives should be deemed terrorist attacks, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says, adding that the European Union (EU) should tighten its sanctions on Russia following the latest attacks in Donetsk and Mariupol. […]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania strongly condemns increased Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. […]
In December 2014 only every third Lithuanian claimed that the situation in the country has been improving. Compared with November 2014, the number of optimists decreased by 6 percent. According to sociologist and lecturer of Vilnius University, Professor Romas Lazutka, the outburst of pessimism at the end of the year was related to the change of national currency and the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. […]
“The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress—and in the American body politic writ large—to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense.” That’s Secretary of Defense Bob Gates on his way out of office, back in 2011. […]
International relations expert Raimundas Lopata says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently engaging in the classic chicken game with the West. […]
An international delegation of UNESCO experts was on a visit in the Lithuanian Curonian Spit for a few days this week to check how the protected site is managed. The delegation organized the inspection in response to complaint from Russia, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
Mikhail Khodorkovsky‘s speech in Vilnius last week drew considerable controversy, with some saying his suggestions of easing economic sanctions on Russia played right into Vladimir Putin‘s interests, while others noting Khodorkovsky’s sober and measured reasoning. The following is a full transcript of Khodorkovsky’s address, translated from Russian by Katerina Sinkevičienė. […]
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