Russia

Seimas of Lithuania
Foreign affairs

Lithuania calls for further suspension of Russian delegations rights at Council of Europe PA

January 23, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to be held in Strasbourg on 26–30 January will address the question of whether to approve the credentials of the Russian delegation to be renewed in 2015 at the expiry of the sanctions applied by the PACE against the Russian delegation because of the annexation of Crimea and the escalation of military tensions in eastern Ukraine. […]

Raimonda Murmokaitė
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian UN ambassador: Russia wants to legitimize territorial gains in Ukraine

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian’s Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė on Wednesday accused Russia of seeking to legitimize its territorial gains in Ukraine, achieved by separatists after an official truce. […]

Federica Mogherini, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and US Secretary of State, John Kerry Photo Ludo Segers
European Union

EU’s Federica Mogherini discusses Ukraine and security with John Kerry.

January 22, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

On Wednesday, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, met with US Secretary of State, John Kerry. The two discussed a number of issues during a luncheon meeting, in particular the situation in Ukraine, the recent wave of terrorist violence in France and other EU countries, energy independence, and other security issues. […]

Janusz Bugajski
Uncategorized

American analyst Janusz Bugajski: There are things in Russia that West fear more than Putin

January 22, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Western powers are less fearful of Putin than of the chaos and unpredictability that the massive nuclear country might sink into once he is gone, says Janusz Bugajski, senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]

Federica Mogherini, Linas Linkevičius
European Union

EU ministers see no reason to ease sanctions on Russia

January 20, 2015 ELTA EN 0

European Union foreign ministers said on Monday there were no grounds to lift economic sanctions against Russia despite conciliatory proposals from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini. […]

Leonidas Donskis and Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Opinion

Opinion: Is Mikhail Khodorkovsky the devil’s advocate? II

January 20, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized another big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by none other than Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He was introduced by liberal Lithuanian thinker Leonidas Donskis who had taken great interest in supporting the prisoner during his term as a member of the European Parliament and had even received Khodorkovsky’s thank-you letter from prison. The prisoner had written he was touched by Donskis’ belief that he was fated for an important role in the history and politics of Russia. […]

Leonidas Donskis and Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Opinion

Opinion: Is Mikhail Khodorkovsky the devil’s advocate?

January 19, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

The Merchants’ Guild building on Gedimino Avenue in central Vilnius hosted a conference in late November 2013 which featured Ukraine‘s opposition players. […]