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Russian invasion in Ukraine: The Kremlin has revealed its cards

August 28, 2014 DELFI EN 0

Russia‘s armed forces invaded Ukraine from the coast of the Sea of Azov for a reason – in order to cut out a land corridor to Crimea. According to reports, Russian forces have taken the coastal town of Novoazovsk and are to move forward towards Mariupol and Volnovakha. […]

Signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Opinion

Opinion: Molotov-Ribbentrop and the birth of the Lithuanian-American alliance

August 28, 2014 Paul Goble 0

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed 75 years ago is remembered as the beginning of an alliance between Hitler and Stalin that divided Eastern Europe between the two totalitarian dictators and opened the way to World War II. That it certainly was, but the accord had another impact as well: reaction to it marked the beginning of an alliance between Lithuania and her Baltic neighbours with the United States. […]

Valdas Adamkus and his wife Alma Adamkienė
Foreign affairs

Valdas Adamkus: The only person I had no luck with was Vladimir Putin

August 28, 2014 DELFI EN 0

Former Lithuanian president Valdas Adamkus expresses his disappointment about the estranged relationship with Poland, and the demands of the Polish minority. He also shares insights and memories about his own personal relations with state leaders he worked with during his presidency, while appreciating a bold yet risky stance of Lithuania’s current leadership during the Russia–Ukraine conflict. […]

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Lithuanian foreign minister: Germany’s wish not to harm Russia is understandable

August 26, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says he understands why German Chancellor Angela Merkel wishes to find a solution to the Ukrainian crisis that would not harm Russia. He adds, however, that it is just as important not to harm Ukraine either. […]

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Energy

Winter and Gazprom won’t wait: What the geopolitics of LNG will mean for the people of Ukraine and Europe

August 20, 2014 Agnia Grigas 0

As the crisis in Ukraine is escalating with the prospect of Russian military intervention, there is every reason to believe that Vladimir Putin will use other weapons at his disposal. Thus European nations are increasingly – and justifiably – worried about the impending winter months when Russia could ratchet up the pressure on Europe, as it has done in the past, by imposing another gas halt with the consequent loss of life and negative economic impacts. […]

Vladimiras Laučius
Opinion

Opinion: Putin grasped the political soul of the West

August 17, 2014 Vladimiras Laucius 0

Only now, after Russian missiles shot down the MH17 flight, does the West seem to experience something like a (small) shock. After all, until recently it urged Ukrainian President Poroshenko to sit down at the negotiating table with the terrorist ringleaders. […]

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Opinion

Opinion: How to restrain the Russian Czar?

August 13, 2014 Vytautas Kersanskas 0

While the war in Eastern Ukraine continues, no one can come up with an idea of how to restrain Russia, which responds to international norms cynically and does not want to hear the warnings of the global community. The current sanctions that Russia is subjected to have one main goal, which is to stop the conflict in Eastern Ukraine and force Moscow to stop supporting terrorists in that area. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Economy

Lithuanian president: Kremlin’s revenge on the West will hit Russian people first

August 7, 2014 BNS 0

The effect of Russia‘s restrictions on imports of agricultural produce and food products on Lithuania’s economy will be small but the country will look for ways to help the business sector, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]