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Foreign affairs

Lithuanian Foreign Ministry earmarks EUR 30,000 for OSCE mission in Ukraine

Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday it earmarked 103,584 litas (EUR 30,000) in its additional voluntary contribution to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. […]

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Opinion

Opinion: More than meets the eye or the case against a ‘frozen conflict’ in East Ukraine

Currently it seems that the on-going Ukrainian–Russian conflict in the East of Ukraine is drawing to a possible end. However, it looks as if a newly minted ‘frozen conflict’ zone is poised to appear on the world map. While the end of active fighting might seem as a positive development, a ‘frozen conflict’ might actually pose even greater threats to international security. […]

Permanent Representative of Lithuania, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian envoy at UN: Human rights violations in Ukraine must be investigated

The Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations together with non-governmental organizations in the margins of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 11 December held a round-table discussion on the role of the International Criminal Court in ensuring accountability for the ongoing human rights violations in Ukraine. […]

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Opinion

Brezhnevizing: henceforth and forever

This year Vladimir Putin‘s annual address received particularly much attention: the leader of an aggressive state with declining economy was presenting his vision, a state that is a real headache to anyone who has to deal with it. […]

Vykintas Pugačiauskas
Opinion

Opinion: Reality check for Russia

If there was anything surprising in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual address to the Federal Assembly it was that there was nothing new in it. It seems that slowly, very slowly, something is dawning on the Kremlin: a gloomy realization that Vladimir Putin is no saviour. […]