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Opinion: The Riga Summit and its outcomes

July 8, 2015 George Rukhadze 0

The fourth Eastern Partnership Summit was held in Riga on 21-22 May 2015. The joint Declaration of the Riga Summit did not reaffirm either the European perspective of the Eastern European Partnership countries consistently demonstrating the best performance or the political support to Georgia and Ukraine in visa liberalization that Tbilisi and Kiev were looking forward to. Quite the opposite, compared to the Vilnius Summit document adopted two years ago, the tone and ambition of the Riga Summit declaration seemed rather weakened. […]

Lithuania sends army instructors to train Ukrainian troops

July 8, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian has sent four army instructors to Ukraine where they will train Ukrainian troops in cooperation with American soldiers. […]

Law professor: By questioning Baltic independence, Russia would acknowledge its responsibility for Soviet crimes

July 6, 2015 DELFI EN 0

A piece of recent news from Russia raised particularly many eyebrows last week. Media reported that the Office of Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation took up to investigate the legitimacy of the independence of the Batlic states. […]

Three Ukrainian troops arrive in Lithuania for rehabilitation

July 3, 2015 BNS 0

Three Ukrainian soldiers who were injured during the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine have arrive in Lithuanian for rehabilitation this week. […]

Lithuania appoints honorary consul in Kharkov

July 2, 2015 BNS 0

Konstiantyn Tokarev has been appointed Lithuania’s honorary consul in the Ukrainian region of Kharkov. […]

Russia’s prosecutor general to examine legitimacy of Baltic states’ independence

June 30, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Russia‘s Prosecutor General’s Office has opened an investigation into the legitimacy of the independence of the Baltic states. The office is to look into whether a decision, made by the State Council of the USSR in 1991, to recognize the three breakaway states as independent nations was legal, newsru.com reports. […]

Ukraine International Airlines launches Vilnius-Odessa flights

June 28, 2015 BNS 0

Ukraine International Airlines on Friday launched a service between Vilnius and Odessa as the carrier is expanding its operations in Lithuania, Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports) said on Saturday. […]

Nordic, Baltic and Poland are Europe’s new front-line states, security report says

June 26, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Europe’s new front-line states are the Nordic countries, Baltic countries, plus Poland, which share a common concern about a “revisionist and rapidly-rearming Russia”, according to the Baltic Sea Security Report by the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]

Lithuania hasn’t decided on arms supply to Ukraine, prime minister says

June 22, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania has not made any decisions about supplying weaponry to Ukraine, says the country’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius. […]

There is a traditional romance between Germany and Russia

June 22, 2015 DELFI EN 0

The pacifism of European societies and traditional romance between Russia and Germany are what muffle Europe’s resolution to give a firm response to Russia’s policies in Ukraine, says Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, the head of international news desk at the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in an interview to DELFI. […]

Putin’s Russia. The dangerous illusion of independent and western oligarchs

June 19, 2015 Rytu Europos studiju centras ir DELFI 0

I decided to dedicate one more essay in the “Putin’s Russia” series to Russian oligarchs because of one piece of news that attracted much less attention in Lithuania and internationally than it warranted: the former foreign minister of Sweden and one of the fiercest critics of President Valdimir Putin, Carl Bildt, accepted a consulting job at LetterOne, a Luxembourg-based company set up and run by Russian oligarchs. […]

Putin will not risk nuclear war, political scientist Girnius says

June 18, 2015 Laisvoji banga 0

American media recently reported that the United States was planning to deploy heavy weaponry in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, including Lithuania. Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius and Minister of Defence Juozas Olekas have confirmed that they are familiar with the plans. Will the move further escalate tensions with Russia? Laisvoji Banga radio talks to political scientist Kęstutis Girnius of Vilnius University. […]

EU united on Russia sanctions, Lithuanian diplomat says

June 18, 2015 BNS 0

EU ambassadors were united on Wednesday when they agreed to extend the existing economic sanctions against Russia until the end of January, 2016, Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the EU Raimundas Karoblis says. […]

EU extends Russia sanctions

June 17, 2015 DELFI EN 0

EU states’ ambassadors Wednesday agreed to extend economic sanctions against Russia for six months, Reuters reports. […]

Putin says Russia to add 40 missiles to its nuclear arsenal

June 16, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

President Vladimir Putin says Russia will add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal in 2015. […]

Ukrainian TV producer: Fight Russian propaganda with privileges, not bans

June 15, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania should not follow the Ukrainian example of banning Russian-language television channels and offering no alternative, says Ukrainian journalist Tetyana Pushnova, general producer of the Ukraine Today TV. […]

Lithuanian president hopes for extension of Russia sanctions

June 12, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė hopes the European Council will extend the sectoral sanctions for Russia, in place since last July, during its meeting several weeks hence. […]

Lithuanian parliament to hold presentation of TV channel Ukraine Today

June 11, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

At the request of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Lithuania, the Seimas, parliament, is holding a presentation of the Ukrainian TV channel Ukraine Today, which is to be launched in Lithuania. The participants at the presentation in the European Information Office on Thursday will be welcomed by Benediktas Juodka, Chair of the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs, the press service of the Seimas said. […]

New ambassador in Kiev: It’s on me to live up to the reputation Lithuania earned in Ukraine

June 11, 2015 Linas Jegelevicius 0

Ambassadors do not pop up out of the blue and, for Marius Janukonis, Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Ukraine, the journey has been, he says, “a natural course of the diplomatic career”. But landing a diplomatic post in a country like Ukraine is obviously “a big challenge”, he agrees. […]

US ambassador to NATO: Russia’s aggression in Ukraine completely changed rules of the game

June 10, 2015 ELTA EN 0

At a press conference at the Latvian Foreign Ministry, United States Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute said that Russia‘s aggressive actions in Crimea and Donbas had completely changed the rules of the game. NATO must therefore prepare for future challenges and offer the necessary support to its partners. […]