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Russian customs officers instructed to put Lithuanian vehicles under extra scrutiny

November 25, 2014 BNS 0

Russian customs officers have been instructed to thoroughly check vehicles from Lithuania, the Lithuanian national road carriers association Linava said on Tuesday. […]

Foreign Minister Linkevičius says Lithuanian president was right to call Russia a terrorist state

November 25, 2014 DELFI EN 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called Russia “a terrorist state”. Moscow retorted by saying that Grybauskaitė should grow out of “communist youth” maximalism. Some extremists at the Russian Duma have even proposed to sever diplomatic relations with Vilnius. […]

Opinion: The importance of manners in the East

November 25, 2014 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

A small episode recently has shown that Russian President Vladimir Putin feels like he is a know-it-all who can ignore his advisory team. It happened in Beijing during the fireworks show for the APEC summit participants. […]

Lithuanian president’s office vague about reported armaments supply to Ukraine

November 25, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said at a news conference with visiting Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė that it was agreed on “supplies of concrete elements of concrete armaments” to Ukraine, but Lithuanian president’s office does not specify what exactly was promised. […]

Economist expects Russia’s transport blockade to be short-lived

November 25, 2014 BNS 0

Moscow’s border restrictions for Lithuanian-registered cars and trucks are a short-lived measure, since a long-term blockade would backfire on Russia, according to Nerijus Mačiulis, the chief economist at Swedbank Lithuania. […]

Lithuania condemns treaty between Georgia’s Abkhazia and Russia

November 25, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania expresses its firm support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia within its internationally recognised borders, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement. […]

Opinion: Under-water incursions in Swedish waters and changing landscape of Baltic Sea security

November 24, 2014 Karlis Neretnieks 0

In October, the Swedish Navy, after several years of calm, once again mounted an operation to identify and avert under-water intruders operating in Swedish territorial waters. Media speculated wildly about the reasons why anyone (read Russia) should have a reason to conduct an operation in the Stockholm archipelago; war preparations, infiltrating agents, discourage Sweden joining NATO and several other possible motives were put forward. […]

Jeffrey Gedmin: Unless Europe puts values above commerce, we risk another Iron Curtain

November 22, 2014 Monika Garbaciauskaite 0

Unless the EU takes a tough stand on Russia‘s foreign policies, there will re-emerge deep divisions in the continent between a free Europe and a less free Europe, says Jeffrey Gedmin, president of the Legatum Institute in London and former president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. […]

Opinion: Time for EU to review security strategy

November 21, 2014 Laurynas Kasciunas 0

It is a paradox that European security strategy, prepared in 2003, names closer relations with Russia as one of the most important factors of the EU’s security and prosperity. […]

Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Vytautas Keršanskas, Linas Kojala, Benediktas Juodka, Kristina Vaičiūnaitė, Audronius Ažubalis

Lithuanian experts outline three scenarios for Eastern Partnership

November 20, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

Experts from the Eastern Europe Studies Centre (EESC) presented the study “Eastern Partnership (EaP) in a Changing Security Environment: ‘Muddling Through’ or New Incentives for Reform?”. The event took place at the Lithuanian Parliament on 12 November. […]

NATO jets up more than 100 times over Russian planes near Baltics

November 19, 2014 BNS 0

NATO fighter jets have taken off more than 100 times so far this year, compared to just four times in 2010, in response to Russian military planes flying close to the Baltic states. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister: Ukraine war caused by failure to learn lessons in Georgia

November 19, 2014 BNS 0

The war in Ukraine is a consequence of Europe having failed to draw lessons from the 2008 war in Georgia, when a normal dialogue with Russia was resumed less than two months after the fighting, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. […]

Opinion: Are Baltic states in danger?

November 19, 2014 DELFI EN 0

The situation is Ukraine has gotten more ominous. Additional armed Russian troops have entered the country’s territory a week ago, accompanied by heavy weaponry and tanks. This mobilization of Russia‘s armed forces is not the first such occurrence, but the significance lies in its timing on the eve of several high-profile international meetings. […]

Lithuanian defence minister: France is looking for ways out of Mistral dilemma

November 19, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Minister of Defence Juozas Olekas says that his French counterpart told him at a meeting earlier this week that Paris was searching for ways to solve the issue of Mistral warships that France had built for Russia but suspended the handover following outcry from EU and NATO allies. […]

International expert panel discussed Sweden’s security and defence cooperation

November 19, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 17 November, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) organized the discussion “The Dynamics of Defence Cooperation: Possibilities and Limits in a Changing Europe”, which brought international expert perspectives on the possibilities and limits of Swedish defence cooperation. […]

NATO fighters taken to skies 30 times since September to intercept Russian planes at Baltic borders

November 18, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Since the beginning of September, NATO fighter jets stationed in the Baltics have taken to the skies 30 times to identify Russian aircraft flying near Baltic borders, the Latvian Defence Ministry’s portal Sargs.lv informs. […]

Putin is in self-imposed isolation among global leaders, Lithuanian president’s adviser says

November 18, 2014 BNS 0

The recent G20 summit showed that global leaders are united over Russia‘s aggression in Ukraine, says, Jovita Neliupšienė, chief adviser to President Dalia Grybauskaitė on foreign policy issues. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister: EU supports internal reforms in Ukraine

November 18, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 17 November in Brussels, the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council meeting addressed the situation in Ukraine. The ministers discussed the tense security situation in eastern Ukraine, raised the question of extending EU sanctions on Russia and called for the immediate implementation of internal reforms in Ukraine, the Lithuanian MFA informs. […]

EU diplomacy chief Federica Mogherini and Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius

EU to sanction Ukraine separatists but wants dialogue with Russia

November 18, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

European Union governments moved to put more Ukrainian separatists under asset freezes and travel bans on Monday but took no action to step up economic sanctions on Russia despite voicing alarm about an upsurge of violence in Ukraine, Reuters reports. […]

RT's propaganda ad within 50 meters of the US State Department HQ. Photo Ludo Segers

Opinion: Russian propaganda lands on America’s shores

November 18, 2014 Ludo Segers from Washington 0

For almost a year now Russian propaganda in the US was lingering in the fringes of society. Now the Kremlin’s RT hits the main streets of Washington, DC, and New York City with an ad campaign of a different kind. It seems that Russian propaganda, the often-ignored part of the war conflict, has hit right in the political heart of the US. […]