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President Dalia Grybauskaite congratulates Ukraine on visa-free travel, calls for further reforms
President Dalia Grybauskaite on Friday congratulated Ukrainians on the start of visa-free travel to the European Union and urged them to continue reforms in order to join the EU and NATO. […]
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President arrives in east Ukraine to celebrate visa-free travels
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday arrived in the city of Kharkov in eastern Ukraine to congratulate Ukrainians on visa-free travels to the European Union (EU) and express support in the Kiev conflict with Moscow. […]
Foreign affairs
President before visit to Kharkov: It is Ukraine’s city of strength
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Kharkov in eastern Ukraine on Friday to meet with President Petro Poroshenko, saying that the city had been chosen in sign of respect to the people of Ukraine fighting for freedom. […]
Defence
President sees Zapad, Belarus N-plant as key threats to transatlantic security
The world clearly understands that key threats to transatlantic security in our region arise from the militarization of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the Zapad military exercise and Belarus‘ Astravyets nuclear power plant, which has become a geopolitical weapon, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday. […]
Foreign affairs
Foreign minister to take part in Baltic, Nordic and Visegrad Group meeting in Poland
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius on Tuesday is taking part in a meeting of foreign ministers of the Baltic, Nordic and Visegrad Group countries in Poland. […]
Defence
Little green men from new incubators
There a has been growing concern in Europe regarding the Kremlin’s new methods of formulating the aggressive fifth column whose members are recruited under the guise of combat sports clubs. According to, experts Lithuania – […]
Society
Brzezinski was European American – Lithuania’s Landsbergis
Cold War strategist and politician Zbigniew Brzezinski always had an impact upon US policies, regardless of the president in power, and his death is an enormous loss, says Vytautas Landsbergis, speaker of Lithuania’s Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas […]
Opinion
W. Europe needed a Marshall plan in 1947. In 2017 Marshall plan is needed for Ukraine
In 1947, following his return to Washington after the negotiations with Stalin and Molotov in Moscow, George Marshall, the famous US military leader and post-war Secretary of State, saw the need to promote economic recovery in Western Europe destroyed by war. This was seen as a stabilising factor and the only way to halt Stalin’s ambitions of expanding his political dominance to Western Europe. […]
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Ukrainian Govt delegation arriving to mark start of visa-free travel to EU
A Ukrainian government delegation will come to Lithuania next month to mark the start of visa-free travel to the European Union. […]
Foreign affairs
Foreign affairs
Lithuania to continue to support Ukraine’s defense, security reforms
Lithuania will continue to support Ukraine‘s defense and security reforms, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius told Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak as they met in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
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Defence
Regional presence of US troops virtually permanent – NATO general
The presence of US troops in the region is already virtually permanent, General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe said in Vilnius on Thursday, as Lithuania has asked for deployment of troops in its territory on permanent, not rotational basis. […]
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Lithuanian ambassador to US calls for stronger transmitter of Radio Free Europe
The signal of the US Congress-financed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) rebroadcast via Lithuania should be amplified in an effort to resist the Russian propaganda, and the radio should be broadcast round the clock, Lithuania’s Ambassador to the United States Rolandas Kriščiūnas told US senators on Tuesday. […]
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Belarus could be Putin’s next target – Kasparov tells
Belarus could be the next country targeted by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin after Ukraine, Russian opposition figure Gary Kasparov, former world chess champion currently residing in the US, has said at a Vilnius conference. […]
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