Earlier this month (October 2014), Scandinavian, and especially Swedish, media have focused on Sweden’s apparently abortive efforts to locate what was allegedly a disabled Russian reconnaissance submarine off its shores near Stockholm. But beyond the glaring evidence of the degradation of Swedish military capabilities — a condition it shares with most if not all of Europe — there is a larger story here. […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to blackmail the West with a nuclear weapon. So says Russian policy expert Andrey Piontkovsky. He reasons that if the “little green men” and Russian troops turn up in Estonia, for example, Vladimir Putin would warn NATO not to intervene because that would be a Russian World affair and he’d threaten to use nuclear weapons if the Alliance took military action against him. […]
A group of Ukrainian school students will spend the upcoming autumn holidays in Lithuania. […]
Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis has been asked by the European Parliament‘s Committee on Foreign Affairs to draft a report on EU-Russia relations. […]
The number of firearms bought in Lithuania for self-defence has grown after the start of war in Ukraine. […]
The results of Latvia‘s general elections will not bring major political changes in the country, as the current ruling coalition will remain in power, says Professor Mindaugas Jurkynas of Lithuania’s Vytautas Magnus University. […]
People in the Baltic states cannot feel secure. Russian President Vladimir Putin has a plan he has been working on for over a decade. So says former adviser to President Putin, Andrey Illarionov. […]
Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs, social democrat Gediminas Kirkilas, believes that Russia‘s policies in relation to Ukraine are in a dead-end, while further military action would not bring victories but only increase tension and bring new sanctions. […]
Explosions and smoke billowing on the horizon in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. […]
I have been dealing with European security for more than thirty years, as an activist during the Cold War, as a journalist, and at think-tanks1. […]
Lithuania’s support to Ukraine can only increase, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday. […]
The Ukrainian Embassy in Lithuania has published information proving that the Ukrainian state border and airspace have been violated by Russia‘s Armed Forces and that the positions of Ukrainian troops and border guards as well as civilian settlements have been under fire and shelling from the Russian territory, and have been under attack in eastern Ukraine by pro-Russian groups and mercenaries armed by the Russian Federation. […]
A protest action was held outside the Russian Embassy in Vilnius at noon on Friday to show disapproval of the country’s military aggression in Ukraine. […]
Member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis has addressed his colleagues in the European Parliament in an open letter. The Lithuanian representative has called to apply maximum sanctions against Russia, to impose a full embargo on its military weapons without any exceptions and to provide help to Ukraine. […]
Russia should admit that it is directly taking part of the conflict in East Ukraine, Urmas Paet, the Estonian Foreign Minister, said Thursday. […]
Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk says Russian troops are now on Ukrainian soil. […]
In the contested Ukrainian city of Donetsk, the evidence of yet more heavy shelling is everywhere. […]
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