Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas and Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas are leaving for Ukraine on Monday for an official visit. […]
Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas has a pretty clear idea about whether Russia could use force in the Baltic states to “defend” Russian compatriots – absolutely not. He is also clear about the reason for his optimism. The human rights situation in Russia leaves much to be desired, whereas people in the Baltics have no reason to want to be defended. […]
Norman M. Naimark, professor at Stanford University, is one of the most authoritative experts on Central and Eastern Europe in the United States whose research interests include the region’s modern history, genocides and ethnic cleansings that happened here. […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, says that the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the only organisation able to at least partially observe the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Therefore the OSCE must be granted access to hotspots of the most intense fighting. […]
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is the instrument through which the European Union (EU) aims to create bonds between its Member States and the countries at the boundaries of the EU and thus secure the stability of the European borders. The EU stipulates Association Agreements offering financial support and other advantages in exchange for a commitment to implement reforms. There are two action plans within the ENP: the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP). […]
Responding to a joint declaration of the Nordic countries of intentions to step up military cooperation in the face of Russian aggression, Russia‘s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Sunday, saying that moves by Finland and Sweden towards closer ties with NATO were of “special concern”, Reuters reports. […]
Scaremongering is bad, but so is the wishful thinking which has fuelled the West’s approach to Russia for decades. So it is worth pondering what a world would look like in which we lose, and Vladimir Putin gets what he wants. […]
Lithuania’s media watchdog has blocked broadcasts by Russian TV channel RTR Planeta on grounds of inciting hatred over Ukraine. […]
Another five Ukrainian soldiers injured in the fighting in Eastern Ukraine have arrived for treatment in hospitals of Lithuania. […]
Lithuania has suspended the decisions on granting asylums to Ukrainian citizens, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday. […]
Russia is successfully implementing military reform whose purpose is to have the capability to fight two and a half military conflicts concurrently. That is, the Russian armed forces must be able to fight two of any type of military conflict and at the same time participate in a peacekeeping operation alone or together with international forces using only standby military capabilities. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas says that supplying arms to Ukraine would be a risky step, given the possible response on the Russian part. […]
It would be hard to imagine Athenian generals worrying about the reporting of Spartan news or even, twenty-four centuries later, Douglas MacArthur caring much about media broadcasts from the land of the rising sun. But when General Philip Breedlove, the Supreme Commander of NATO, recently called on the West to make a greater effort to counter Russia’s toxic war of disinformation against Ukraine and its western allies, his concern made perfect military sense. In a world in which the dissemination of information is a key tactical element in violent conflicts, the West and America have remained far too passive in confronting both the insidious campaign of lies on Russian state-controlled media and the notoriously effective internet recruitment efforts of terrorist groups. […]
On April 2 Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with a delegation of US congressmen led by US Congressman and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry, conducting visit in Lithuania, the Ministry reports. […]
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