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Opinion

Opinion: Lithuania’s strategy for long-term support to Ukraine

Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has become the biggest long-term geopolitical challenge not only to Ukraine but also to Europe at large, including Lithuania. […]

Radoslaw Sikorski and Carl Bildt
European Union

Eastern Partnership is dead. Long live Eastern Partnership

Without much of a fervour or pomp last week saw the end of the most prominent and quite efficient couple in the Foreign Affairs Council. Carl Bildt and Radoslaw Sikorski left the stage and took up their new roles. It’s an end of an era and I am afraid also an end to their most precious pet project of the two gentlemen – Eastern Partnership. […]

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Competing interests threaten Baltic pressure on Russia

With the September 30 review of EU sanctions against Russia approaching, the Baltic states are among several countries interested in maintaining the pressure on Moscow for its role in the Ukraine crisis. However, Baltic nations are also operating under significant constraints, including the region’s economic ties to Russia and the competing interests of larger EU countries that want to improve relations with Moscow. […]

Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin
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Moscow’s plan to decoy the West

Moscow seems to be making effort to patch up its relations with the West after a fall-out over Ukraine by trying to refocus attention away from Eastern Europe and onto the Middle East. Experts say, however, that the trick might not work. […]

Raimundas Karoblis
European Union

EU agreed on postponement of Ukraine pact with safeguards against future Russian pressure

Ambassadors of European Union (EU) member-states on Thursday finalized positions on postponement of the free trade agreement with Ukraine. The document incorporates safeguards, suggested by Lithuania, intended to curb Russia‘s future pressure, Lithuania’s ambassador says. […]