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

January 23, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

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. […]

Lithuania pledges help to Ukraine’s economy

January 23, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania will help Ukraine boost the country’s exports, improve public procurement system and strengthen the energy sector. […]

Edward Lucas: Snow Meeting is Davos for people who know what is going on

January 22, 2015 Edward Lucas 0

The Snow Meeting is a highlight of the European security calendar. It is like Davos, except that it is smaller and full of people who really know what is going on (Davos is full of people who would like to know what is going on). […]

Opinion: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to identify with Putin II

January 22, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. […]

President Grybauskaitė: Russia is engaging in “territorial aggression” in Ukraine

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

There’s evidence confirming that Russia is taking direct part in the ongoing military operation in eastern Ukraine, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday. […]

Lithuanian UN ambassador: Russia wants to legitimize territorial gains in Ukraine

January 22, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian’s Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė on Wednesday accused Russia of seeking to legitimize its territorial gains in Ukraine, achieved by separatists after an official truce. […]

President Barack Obama. Photo Pete Souza, Official White House Photographer

US President Obama addresses Ukrainian conflict in State of the Union Address

January 22, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

President Barack Obama, during his State of the Union address to the American Congress on Tuesday night, spoke about the situation in Ukraine. He advocated the use of diplomacy to uphold the principle that bigger nations cannot bully the small. […]

Federica Mogherini, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and US Secretary of State, John Kerry Photo Ludo Segers

EU’s Federica Mogherini discusses Ukraine and security with John Kerry.

January 22, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

On Wednesday, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, met with US Secretary of State, John Kerry. The two discussed a number of issues during a luncheon meeting, in particular the situation in Ukraine, the recent wave of terrorist violence in France and other EU countries, energy independence, and other security issues. […]

American analyst Janusz Bugajski: There are things in Russia that West fear more than Putin

January 22, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Western powers are less fearful of Putin than of the chaos and unpredictability that the massive nuclear country might sink into once he is gone, says Janusz Bugajski, senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]

Opinion: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to identify with Putin

January 21, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. […]

Opinion: Khodorkovsky’s speech in Vilnius or prudence vs. clatter of dreamers

January 21, 2015 Vladimiras Laucius 0

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s visit in Vilnius has triggered a wave of emotional reactions that seem to have overwhelmed the critical thinking faculties and political sense of angry observers. Absolutely scandalous – Khodorkovsky dared not to say that he would immediately give back Crimea if he became Russia’s leader! […]

Russian government wants to monitor students’ contacts with EU diplomats

January 21, 2015 BNS 0

Russia‘s Education and Science Ministry wants to be informed about the meetings of university students with the staff of the European Union (EU) Mission to Russia, which is headed by Lithuania’s former foreign minister Vygaudas Ušackas, Russian media said on Wednesday. […]

Lithuanian defence minister invites Canada to contribute to Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian brigade

January 21, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 20 January, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with Canadian Defence Minister Robert Nicholson at Canada‘s National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. Both ministers addressed a number of common security and defence issues, including joint efforts to support Ukraine. […]

EU will not sacrifice Crimea for peace in Donbass, Lithuanian minister says

January 20, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius says that he does not believe that the European Union (EU) will ever recognize the annexation of the Crimean peninsula in exchange for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. […]

President Grybauskaitė’s advisor: No place for appeasement politics in Ukraine

January 20, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Chief foreign policy advisor to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Jovita Neliupšienė, says that Russia‘s direct involvement in conflict in the Donbass region is becoming more and more obvious, while the current ceasefire is only relative. […]

Leonidas Donskis and Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Opinion: Is Mikhail Khodorkovsky the devil’s advocate?

January 19, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

The Merchants’ Guild building on Gedimino Avenue in central Vilnius hosted a conference in late November 2013 which featured Ukraine‘s opposition players. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister: EU should guide its decisions by actual situation in Russia, not illusions

January 19, 2015 BNS 0

In its discussion of the relations with Russia, the European Union (EU) should act in accordance to the actual situation rather than illusions, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Monday upon arrival at a meeting in Brussels. […]

Lithuanian conservative leader going to Ukraine to advise on reforms

January 19, 2015 BNS 0

The leader of the opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, former prime minister Andrius Kubilius, is going to Ukraine this week to join a group of experts for a discussion on economic reforms. […]

EP resolution: Sanctions on Russia should stay until it changes aggressive policy

January 16, 2015 ELTA EN 0

EU sanctions on Russia should stay in place until Moscow changes its aggressive policy in Ukraine, respects the ceasefire agreement, withdraws its troops and stops supporting separatists, the European Parliament said in a resolution supported on Thursday. […]

Linkevičius discusses bilateral and regional cooperation with Latvian, Estonian and Slovakian foreign ministers

January 16, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 16 January, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, Foreign Minister of Latvia, and Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, Foreign Minister of Estonia, who are taking part in the Snow Meeting. […]