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Putin’s middle class is fleeing to Latvia

February 27, 2015 Inga Springe 0

Vitaly Mansky, a Russian documentary filmmaker, knows exactly when he decided to establish a bolthole outside the Russian Federation. It was the spring of 2014, and Mansky was in Spain for a film festival, watching news in his hotel room. An anchor at one of the Kremlin-controlled news stations reported that Russia’s parliament had allowed President Vladimir Putin to use the army to protect his compatriots in other countries. In other words, they had legalized the annexation of Crimea and provided support for pro-Russian combatants in Eastern Ukraine. […]

Lithuanian Foreign Ministry states support to Ukraine’s sovereignty one year after Crimea disturbances

February 27, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania strongly supports Ukraine‘s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, the Foreign Ministry stated on Thursday. […]

Countries bordering Russia many need special NATO forces, Lithuanian defence official says

February 26, 2015 BNS 0

The Russian aggression in Ukraine has shown that countries bordering Russia may need special forces, says the Lithuanian Defence Ministry’s Political Director Vaidotas Urbelis. […]

Opinion: Putin will not stop on his own

February 26, 2015 Vytautas Dumbliauskas 0

Vladimir Putin will not stop by himself, he needs to be stopped. And if he has no intention of stopping, there shouldn’t even be a mention of retreating. […]

Lithuania’s Linkevičius urges US administration to back weapons support to Ukraine

February 25, 2015 BNS 0

At a meeting in Washington with US president’s senior adviser for European affairs Charles Kupchan, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius discussed the nearest Allied actions in response to the violations of Minsk accords and urged the US administration to support provision of weapons to Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. […]

Russia’s neighbours concerned about Kremlin’s foreign policy, OSCE PA vice-president says

February 25, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA), says that the OSCE PA attitude towards Russia changed considerably during its winter session. […]

British PM seconds warning that Baltic states could be Russia’s next target

February 25, 2015 BNS 0

Great Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has joined the warnings made by other high-ranking officials about the possibility of the Baltic states being the next Russian target after Ukraine in an effort to test NATO‘s strength. […]

John Kerry (right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

John Kerry: Russia lying “to my face” about having troops in Ukraine

February 25, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

United States Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday accused Russian leaders of lying “to my face” about Moscow’s involvement in the conflict in Ukraine and denounced what he called Russia’s “propaganda”, AFP reports. […]

Leonidas Donskis: We are witnessing historical birth of Ukrainian nation

February 25, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

Russia is threatening the Ukrainian state, but not the Ukrainian nation, which is being born in front of our eyes, says Lithuanian philosopher and former member of the European Parliament Leonidas Donskis. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister: Ukraine truce is not working

February 24, 2015 BNS 0

The agreements on a truce in Ukraine are not working as separatists, supported by Russia, continue attacks in eastern Ukraine, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said on Monday after discussing the existing situation with his Ukrainian counterpart. […]

Mikheil Saakashvili and Žygimantas Pavilionis

Mikheil Saakashvili urges the West to supply precision weapons to Ukraine

February 23, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who is visiting the US capital, spoke on Monday evening in the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, DC. Mr. Saakashvili spoke at the invitation of the New International Leadership Institute during an event hosted by Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis. […]

President Grybauskaitė in Euromaidan anniversary event

President Grybauskaitė: Ukrainian people continue defending Maidan ideals

February 23, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė visited Ukraine‘s capital Kiev on Sunday, 22 February. Alongside other European leaders she attended commemorative events for Maidan’s anniversary, including the March of Dignity in memory of Maidan victims that took place in the centre of Kiev, the presidential press service said. […]

Terrorist act in Kharkiv “cowardly attack”, Lithuanian foreign minister says

February 23, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has condemned the terrorist attack carried out in Kharkiv on the Maidan anniversary, saying that the “cowardly attack” showed the world that violence is the only argument used by terrorists to defend their position. […]

Lithuanian and Ukrainian industrialists set up Ukraine’s business representation in EU

February 22, 2015 ELTA EN 0

On 20 February, the Confederation of Lithuanian Industrialists (LPK) together with the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP) signed an agreement, establishing a permanent representation of Ukrainian business in Brussels. […]

Ukrainian ambassador: EU long believed Russia was developing democratically

February 20, 2015 BNS 0

The European Union has for many years believed that Russia was developing democratically, and even the Georgian war did not serve as a wakeup call, Ukrainian Ambassador to Lithuania Valery Zhovtenko says. […]

British parliament committee says UK and EU “sleep-walked” into Ukraine crisis

February 20, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The United Kingdom and the European Union are guilty of a “catastrophic misreading” of the moods in the Kremlin prior to the crisis in Ukraine, which led to a failure to appreciate what was to come, a report by Britain’s parliamentary committee says. […]

Moscow is getting ready for a hybrid war with Lithuania. Is the Polish minority going to be the flashpoint?

February 20, 2015 Piotr Maciazek 0

Another series of Russian provocations involving the Baltic states, related to the Ukraine war, makes so-called hybrid war scenario more and more realistic within the region of the Baltic Sea. The incidents that took place so far, such as the Internet existence of “People’s Republic of Vilnius” or the hooligan attacks on the Polish Embassy in Vilnius, seem to suggest that the Kremlin is going to use the Polish minority of Lithuania, along with the tough history of the Polish-Lithuanian relations, as the basis for its activities, aim of which would be to destabilize the region. […]

Sending peacekeepers to Ukraine but a “theoretical” possibility, Lithuanian foreign minister says

February 20, 2015 BNS 0

The Ukrainian request to deploy peace-keepers in its Eastern districts might be given theoretical consideration, if the situation stabilizes, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says, adding that this would require a change in Russia‘s negative stance. […]

Europe must update its security strategy, Lithuanian defence minister says

February 20, 2015 BNS 0

The European security strategy does not reflect today’s realities and must be updated, says Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]

EU defence ministers understand threat from Russia, Lithuania’s Olekas says

February 19, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says that defence ministers of the European Union countries perceive the threat of a hybrid armed conflict rising from the East and the need for the EU to be ready to repel this threat. […]