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Lithuanian parliament calls for release of Ukrainians held by Russia
On Wednesday, the Committee on European Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Lithuanian Parliament adopted a resolution calling for immediate release of Nadiia Savchenko, Ukrainian military air force pilot, and other Ukrainian citizens illegally held against their will in the Russian Federation, the press service of the Seimas announced. […]
Foreign affairs
Ukrainian academicians’ award is Lithuania’s appreciation Grybauskaitė says
The decision by the Higher Academic Council of Ukraine to name Lithuanian president the Person of the Year is the appreciation of the country’s support to Ukraine, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Society
Lithuanian foreign minister thanks freedom defender from Ukraine
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Wednesday delivered a letter of gratitude and a memorial gift to Ukrainian citizen Yevhen Dykyi who headed a group of Ukrainians defending the Lithuanian parliament in January 1991. […]
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UN Security Council condemns attack against Ukrainian civilians
Following the proposal put forward by Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations (UN), the UN Security Council condemned the shelling of a passenger bus in Volnovakha, Donetsk Region of Ukraine. […]
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Opinion
Opinion: What terrorists and Putin have in store for us
For days now many in the global and Lithuanian media have locked horns over the terrorist acts in Paris. There are some who say that freedom to express one’s convictions is above any religious or social group interests; others contend that cartoons published by the likes of Charlie Hebdo made merciless mockery of believers’ feelings, that they cannot be subsumed under the “social group” category and have nothing to do with freedom of expression. […]
Foreign affairs
Ukrainian Academic Council names President Grybauskaitė person of the year
The Ukrainian Supreme Academic Council called Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė Person of the Year for her solid and consistent support to Ukraine‘s independence. […]
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Foreign affairs
Mikhail Khodorkovsky among guest speakers at forum in Lithuania
Snow Meeting, a traditional informal discussion club, organised by the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania since 2008, will be held on 15-16 January in Trakai and Vilnius, the ministry said in a press release. […]
Society
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Defence
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Kremlinologist Lilia Shevtsova: Putin is a mediocre leader pushing his country to collapse
Lilia Shevtsova, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution, says that Vladimir Putin is a far cry from the shrewd and effective leader everyone, friends and foes alike, take him to be. On the contrary, she says, the Russian president is a shallow mediocrity who has not got a clue how to avert his country’s imminent collapse. […]
Society
Vytautas Landsbergis calls for restoring conscript army in Lithuania
Lithuania’s first post-independence leader, signatory to the 11 March Act, former speaker of the Supreme-Council-Reconstituent Seimas, Vytautas Landsbergis, has called for the restoration of conscription in Lithuania in the wake Russia‘s aggression in Ukraine. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian ambassador to Ukraine to quit diplomatic service
Petras Vaitiekūnas, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania to Ukraine, has decided to quit the diplomatic service after returning to Vilnius once his term of office ends. Vaitiekūnas’, 61, diplomatic career spanned over two decades, vz.lt reports. He served as Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs between 2006 and 2008. […]
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Stratfor: Poland and Baltic states will continue to promote Ukraine’s Western ties
As the standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine continues into 2015, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will come to play an increasingly important role. Even before the crisis, the three Baltic states — as well as neighboring Poland — were among the most active EU member states attempting to bring Ukraine closer to the West and to challenge Russia’s role in the former Soviet periphery. Their efforts along these lines will intensify this year. Ultimately, however, more powerful players in the standoff will limit the impacts of their efforts, particularly Germany and the United States. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Conflicts of the past year connected by corruption
A retrospective look at the conflicts dominating the headlines in 2014 presents a grim picture of escalating conflict and human suffering. Underneath the headlines is a common thread connecting the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Ukrainian protesters in the Maidan, and the Nigerian families still desperately seeking someone to #BringBackOurGirls. That common thread is corruption, Mary Beth Goodman, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, writes on The Mark News. […]
Society
Seventeen Ukrainian children come to Vilnius
Seventeen Ukrainian children arrived by coach in Vilnius on Saturday to take part in a support camp organized for them. […]
Foreign affairs
More injured Ukrainian soldiers arriving in Lithuania for treatment
Lithuanian Air Force transport plane Spartan carrying seven Ukrainian soldiers injured during anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine is landing at Vilnius International Airport on Friday evening. […]