State Department

  • Foreign affairs

Children’s rights and discrimination against minorities a problem in Lithuania – US report

Children's rights and non-discrimination of minorities are the weakest points in Lithuania's human rights record, according to a report by…

9 years ago
  • Opinion

Spinning Russia’s Syria exit

Russian television has thrived for months on a diet of victories in Syria. Now that the time has come to…

9 years ago
  • Economy

Supervision of Lithuania’s tourism sector insufficient, auditors say

Implementing the Public Audit Programme of 2015, National Audit Office of Lithuania has already conducted one third of the financial…

9 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Potsdam Conference and Russia’s crooked-mirror politics in Kaliningrad

Most of the time history can’t be put to bed even though agreements to end wars have been concluded, victors…

9 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Cubans spice up life in Lithuanian Embassy neighbourhood in Washington, DC

The building in Washington, DC, formerly known as 'Swiss Embassy, Cuban Special Interest Section' became as of Monday midnight officially…

9 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Is America losing the information war?

It would be hard to imagine Athenian generals worrying about the reporting of Spartan news or even, twenty-four centuries later,…

10 years ago
  • European Union

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

On Wednesday, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, met with US Secretary…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis: We do not invest in our relations with the United States

Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America Žygimantas Pavilionis thinks that the US administration under President Barack Obama has…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Russian propaganda lands on America’s shores

For almost a year now Russian propaganda in the US was lingering in the fringes of society. Now the Kremlin’s…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian foreign minister visiting US

On 5-14 October, Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius as part of the delegation headed by Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: The long game in Eastern Europe

Two weeks ago commentators were hyperventilating about a return to the 1930s in Europe, following a Russian invasion-of-sorts into eastern…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Molotov-Ribbentrop and the birth of the Lithuanian-American alliance

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed 75 years ago is remembered as the beginning of an alliance between Hitler and Stalin that…

10 years ago