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Lamberto Zannier and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė

OSCE leader: Now is “good chance” to ensure peace in Ukraine

April 20, 2015 BNS 0

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Secretary General Lamberto Zannier says in Vilnius that now is a good chance to ensure peace in Eastern Ukraine after enforcement of the ceasefire in the strategically important town of Shyrokyne near Mariupol. […]

Lithuanian president urges OSCE to step up mission in Ukraine

April 20, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday called for an enhanced mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine, where fighting between Russian-supported separatists and Ukrainian governmental forces continue regardless of ceasefire. […]

Lithuanian defence minister and chief of defence to visit Ukraine

April 20, 2015 BNS 0

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 PM: Russian-speakers are better protected in Baltics than in Russia

April 20, 2015 DELFI EN 0

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. […]

Vilnius think tank calls on Ukraine to make use of truce for reforms

April 19, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian and foreign experts have called on Ukraine to make use of a fragile truce with pro-Russian separatists and carry out reforms. […]

Vladimir Putin and Russian navy soldiers

Baltic states the line Russia will not dare to cross?

April 17, 2015 Violeta Davoliute 0

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 Linkevičius: Only OSCE can monitor ceasefire in Ukraine

April 17, 2015 ELTA EN 0

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. […]

Lithuania considers giving aid to Ukraine’s railway transport

April 16, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania is mulling a possibility to send locomotives, electric trains and rail cars, which are not used in the country, to Ukraine. […]

Are the Baltic states at risk of Russian aggression?

April 16, 2015 Agnia Grigas 0

As tensions are brewing between Russia and the West, the three tiny states on the coast of the Baltic Sea – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – seem to be at the epicentre of this imminent showdown. […]

Dilemma of EU neighbourhood policy: Mediterranean vs. Eastern Partnership

April 15, 2015 Sofia Casablanca 0

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). […]

Moscow says it is concerned over Finland and Sweden moving closer to NATO

April 13, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

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. […]

Edward Lucas: What if Putin gets what he wants?

April 13, 2015 Edward Lucas 0

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. […]

Latvia and Estonia rule out supplying weapons to Ukraine

April 10, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Heads of Latvian and Estonian governments say their support to Ukraine will be limited to humanitarian and expertise assistance and, therefore, they will not send lethal weapons to Ukraine in the nearest future. […]

Lithuania creates precedent in EU by banning Russian TV station

April 10, 2015 Zivile Kropaite 0

Lithuania’s media watchdog has blocked broadcasts by Russian TV channel RTR Planeta on grounds of inciting hatred over Ukraine. […]

Baltic PMs meeting in Vilnius to discuss security and energy

April 10, 2015 BNS 0

Prime ministers of the three Baltic states are holding an informal meeting in Vilnius on Friday on the situation in Ukraine and joint energy and transport projects. […]

5 more Ukrainian troops come to Lithuanian hospitals

April 9, 2015 BNS 0

Another five Ukrainian soldiers injured in the fighting in Eastern Ukraine have arrived for treatment in hospitals of Lithuania. […]

Lithuania pauses decisions on granting asylum for Ukrainians

April 8, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania has suspended the decisions on granting asylums to Ukrainian citizens, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday. […]

Putin’s week-long disappearance: checking if Russia can fight two and a half wars at once

April 8, 2015 DELFI EN 0

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. […]

EU ambassador to Russia warns against supplying arms to Ukraine

April 6, 2015 BNS 0

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. […]

Opinion: Is America losing the information war?

April 6, 2015 Agnia Grigas and Seth Freeman 0

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. […]