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Foreign affairs
Lithuanian formin pledges continuous support for eastern Ukrainian regions
Lithuania will continue providing support to Ukraine’s eastern regions, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said during his recent visit to Ukraine. […]
Foreign affairs
Seimas speaker to visit United States
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis is leaving for a three-day visit to the United States. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s vice environmin under fire after “post Soviet countries” event
Lithuania’s Vice Minister of Environment Martynas Norbutas has come under fire for attending a seminar for post-Soviet countries in the United States. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian formin meets with Russian journalist Babchenko in Ukraine
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, currently on a visit to Ukraine, on Thursday met with Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko whose murder has been recently staged. […]
Defence
Lithuanian, Polish defense chiefs to meet to discuss air defense, Suwalki gap
Lithuania’s Chief of Defense Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas is meeting with Poland‘s military commanders in Warsaw on Thursday to discuss the region’s air defense and the defense of the so-called “Suwalki gap“. […]
Defence
Chief of defense Žukas to visit Poland
Lithuania’s Chief of Defense Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas will pay a visit to Poland on Thursday where he is scheduled to meet with the command of the Polish armed forces and discuss joint training and the protection of the Suwalki Corridor. […]
CORPORATE
Lithuanian initiative: Western strategy towards Russia
Towards a Pro-European Russia and a Marshall Plan for Russia (after Putin) Lithuania is situated next to a complicated neighbourhood. Russia has been and will remain, for many years to come, the biggest threat to […]
CORPORATE
Ž. Pavilionis and D.J. Kramer: The folly of dialogue with Kremlin
French President Emmanuel Macron and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were among the leading figures attending the recent St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, at which they met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader traveled to Vienna this week to meet with Austria’s leadership. And media reports indicate that President Donald Trump is interested in hosting Putin in Washington in the near future. There almost seems to be a race in engaging with Putin, including in Lithuania. […]
CORPORATE
Audronius Ažubalis. The new political leadership of the European Union faded in St Petersburg
Less than one week ago, when releasing the text on the relations between major European Union powers and the US, I did not expect myself to be writing so soon again. At the time when […]
Opinion
Digital Warfare: European elves vs. Kremlin (Russian) trolls
Russian information weapons and the creation of an ‘alternative reality” Nowadays Russian propaganda and disinformation reaches unprecedented levels. After the military aggression against Ukraine in 2014, i. e. annexation of Crimea and military aggression in […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian Seimas speaker to visit US in late June
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis will pay a visit to the United States in late June. […]
CORPORATE
Žygimantas Pavilionis. How do we save Georgia?
The name of Lithuania sounded loud and clear everywhere on the occasion of Georgia‘s centenary. Many of the Georgians celebrating the national anniversary in the crowded streets of Tbilisi vowed they would vote for the […]
Culture
Lithuanian actor Vinokuras to teach Eastern Ukrainian children art of circus
Lithuanian actor, writer and journalist Arkadijus Vinokuras will go to Eastern Ukraine in the fall to teach war-affected children the art of circus. […]
Economy
Lithuanian c. bank says developing digital collector coin ‘possible’
The Bank of Lithuania says that last weekend’s hackathon showed that it is possible to develop a digital collector coin. […]
CORPORATE
US and Western Europe’s disagreements: whom should Lithuania stand by?
“Solely Brussels is no good, but solely Washington is also no good. […] It is necessary to manoeuvre between the two positions,” political scientist Virgis Valentinavičius says, commenting on how Lithuania should act in the […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian PM finds it hard to understand Russian journalist’s staged murder
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he finds it hard to understand the motives of Ukrainian law enforcement for staging Russian opposition journalist Arkady Babchenko‘s murder. […]
Foreign affairs
Russian political activist Gorsky turns to court after denied asylum in Lithuania
Russian political activist Yuri Gorsky has appeal against the Lithuanian Migration Department‘s refusal to grant him political asylum. […]
European Union
Leading German MEP calls on Lithuania to choose Europe in disputes with US
Manfred Weber, leader of the European Parliament‘s largest political group, says that Lithuania should choose Europe amid recent tensions between the European Union and the United States. […]
CORPORATE
A hundred years ago. The new just structure and map of Europe
Centenary meeting, 26 March 2018, Geneva, Headquarters of the League of Nations The great war of thrones, which erupted and went on disastrously, and then allegedly ended a hundred years ago, did not result in […]