The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is not working, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Monday after arriving in Brussels for a meeting of European Union (EU) diplomats. […]
First Deputy Government Chancellor Remigijus Motuzas should be appointed as Lithuania’s ambassador to Russia as of 20 January 1015. […]
Currently it seems that the on-going Ukrainian–Russian conflict in the East of Ukraine is drawing to a possible end. However, it looks as if a newly minted ‘frozen conflict’ zone is poised to appear on the world map. While the end of active fighting might seem as a positive development, a ‘frozen conflict’ might actually pose even greater threats to international security. […]
The Baltic and Polish defence ministers held a meeting in Latvia and agreed on a joint response in deterring Russia, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said in a statement on Friday. […]
More than 619,000 Lithuanians live abroad, show statistical data published by the Lithuanian Statistics Department on Friday. One in five of the expatriates live in the United Kingdom. […]
The Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations together with non-governmental organizations in the margins of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 11 December held a round-table discussion on the role of the International Criminal Court in ensuring accountability for the ongoing human rights violations in Ukraine. […]
Earlier this month, experts convened in Brussels for a conference titled ‘The Second Cold War: Heating Up?’ Even among the plethora of current ‘New Cold War’ themed events, this one stood out: the organiser, Latvian MEP Tatjana Zdanoka, has been accused of being a Russian agent of influence – a spy. […]
This year Vladimir Putin‘s annual address received particularly much attention: the leader of an aggressive state with declining economy was presenting his vision, a state that is a real headache to anyone who has to deal with it. […]
Poland‘s Minister of Defence Tomasz Siemoniak says that there has been “unprecedented” activity by Russia‘s navy and air force in the Baltic Sea region in recent days, AP reports. […]
There are many misconceptions about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is being negotiated between the United States and the European Union, says Charles Ries, vice president of the Rand Corporation. […]
On 6 December a group of warships of the Russian Federation (22 vessels) was spotted in the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. The group was accompanied by military aircraft flying over the neutral waters, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
If there was anything surprising in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual address to the Federal Assembly it was that there was nothing new in it. It seems that slowly, very slowly, something is dawning on the Kremlin: a gloomy realization that Vladimir Putin is no saviour. […]
The EU response to Russia‘s actions in Ukraine is a correct decision, Germany‘s Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview published in Welt am Sonntag on 7 December. […]
Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America Žygimantas Pavilionis thinks that the US administration under President Barack Obama has been naive in wishing to “reset” relations with Russia, but this is the trap that every new president falls into. He hopes, however, that Obama’s successor – be it Hillary Clinton or someone else – will have a better grasp on geopolitical realities of Eastern Europe. […]
President Vladimir Putin gave his annual state of the nation address in the Russian parliament. Lithuanian political analyst Kęstutis Girnius summarizes Putin’s main message thus: sanctions are Western countries’ fault, not his. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has recently called Russia a terrorist state. She is not alone in saying so. […]
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