Lietuvos karinių oro pajėgų sraigtasparnis Mi-8
Foreign affairs

Lithuania asks Sweden for assistance in salvaging sunken plane

Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas has asked Sweden for assistance in salvaging a sunken An-2 from the bottom of the Baltic Sea. […]

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Global LT

Stockholm seminar discusses information challenges in Eastern Europe

Dr. Nerijus Maliukevičius, lecturer of Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences, Russian and East European Studies Centre, presented the report “Russia’s Use of Information Operations in the Baltic States” at the international seminar on “Information Operations as a Foreign Policy Tool – the Situation in the Baltic States and Consequences for Sweden” which took place in Stockholm on 19 May. […]

Nordbalt jungties kabelis
Energy

Final 50km stretch of NordBalt cable to be laid on Baltic seabed

During its month-long work in 2015, the special vessel Topaz Installer laid more than 50 kilometres of HVDC cable NordBalt in the Baltic Sea. At the moment, she is completing a second stretch of the same length. […]

NordBalt kabelį tiesiantis laivas
Energy

Lithuania’s energy minister: NordBalt project unaffected by incident at sea

An incident where the ship guarding the laying of NordBalt cable between Lithuania and Sweden was forced out of the zone has not affected the project, the energy minister has said. […]

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Opinion

Opinion: Sweden – a moral superpower?

Sweden’s unilateral decision to cancel its large-scale defense agreement with Saudi Arabia has attracted considerable international attention. It canceled the agreement on moral grounds, refusing to continue military cooperation with one of the world’s most hardline dictatorships – a regime that violates human rights and sentences dissidents to public whippings. […]

NordBalt cable
Energy

Final stretch of NordBalt cable to be laid under Baltic Sea

On Thursday, the works on laying the NordBalt cable resumed in the Baltic Sea. The last 150 kilometres will be laid by the end of this summer, the Ministry of Energy reports. […]