Linas Linkevičius ES ministrų susitikime
European Union

EU hints at additional sanctions against Russia

European Union leaders asked their foreign ministers on Tuesday to consider possible new sanctions on Russia in response to a rebel offensive in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reports. A final decision to impose them, however, is likely to be left to a summit next month. […]

Vytautas Dumbliauskas
Opinion

Opinion: Why is Russia raising stakes in east Ukraine?

Why have we seen an intensification of military action in eastern Ukraine? Government forces report that Russian troops are pushing towards not just Donetsk Airport, but essentially in all directions. This way, all previous predictions about how the military conflict will only smoulder during the winter but won’t advance have burst like soap bubbles. Fierce fighting has recommenced, civilians are dying as well as soldiers. […]

No Picture
Society

Hundreds honour Mariupol attack victims in Vilnius

Several hundred people paid tribute to the victims of the recent attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol outside the Lithuanian parliament on Monday night. […]

Linas Linkevičius
Uncategorized

Lithuanian foreign minister: EU should tighten sanctions on Russia after military raids in Ukraine

The military attacks in Ukraine that claim civilian lives should be deemed terrorist attacks, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says, adding that the European Union (EU) should tighten its sanctions on Russia following the latest attacks in Donetsk and Mariupol. […]

No Picture
Society

Euro adoption and crisis in Ukraine reduced Lithuanians’ optimism, according to poll

In December 2014 only every third Lithuanian claimed that the situation in the country has been improving. Compared with November 2014, the number of optimists decreased by 6 percent. According to sociologist and lecturer of Vilnius University, Professor Romas Lazutka, the outburst of pessimism at the end of the year was related to the change of national currency and the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. […]

Seimas of Lithuania
Foreign affairs

Lithuania calls for further suspension of Russian delegations rights at Council of Europe PA

The plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to be held in Strasbourg on 26–30 January will address the question of whether to approve the credentials of the Russian delegation to be renewed in 2015 at the expiry of the sanctions applied by the PACE against the Russian delegation because of the annexation of Crimea and the escalation of military tensions in eastern Ukraine. […]