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Lithuanian businessman Aivaras Abromavičius says he has agreed to become Ukraine's economy minister because he wants to help the country in a difficult situation and share his experience gained in the West.
Lithuanian businessman Aivaras Abromavičius is mentioned among candidates for a ministerial post in Ukraine's new government. On Tuesday, he was granted the Ukrainian citizenship by President Petro Poroshenko.
"Europe had been waiting for an engagement party for two years but it was called off a week before," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius on the evening of 28 November 2013 after Ukraine refused to sign the association agreement with the Europ...
Arnoldas Pranckevičius, adviser to the president of the European Parliament, says that while the European Union might seem slow and irresolute when it comes to external challenges like Russia's actions in Ukraine, its adherence to rules and procedures is what makes it a beacon of a different and bet...
Lithuania will provide assistance to Ukraine based on the country's needs, Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Juozas Olekas told BNS on Tuesday.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said at a news conference with visiting Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė that it was agreed on "supplies of concrete elements of concrete armaments" to Ukraine, but Lithuanian president's office does not specify what exactly was promised.
Only the Ukrainian people can decide whether Ukraine will become a NATO member, but this will take considerable time, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė.
Ukraine should be assisted in implementing the necessary reforms amid the immense challenges the country is faced with, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in Kiev on Monday.
On Monday, 24 November, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė goes for a working visit to Ukraine. She will meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and attend the seventh session of the Council of Presidents of the Republic of Lithuania and Ukraine, the presidential press service said.
The United States condemned in harsh terms the illegitimate elections held on Sunday by Russia-backed separatists in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk, National Security Council Spokesperson Bernadette Meehan described the ‘elections’ as sham.
Pro-Western forces have won the general elections in Ukraine and they secured a stable majority necessary to push reforms. But a lot of questions remain on oligarchs' influence on the country's future progress, says analyst Laurynas Kasčiūnas of the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Lithuania.
The victory of pro-Western forces in Ukraine's general elections shows that the country is bidding goodbye to its past and is ready to take the European path, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says.
Russian forces are withdrawing from the Ukrainian border. Pro-Russian separatists are putting down their arms. There are reports about Russia re-opening some of its markets to Western production. All this has sparked discussions about Moscow backing down from confrontation with the West.
On Wednesday, US President Barack Obama participated in a video conference with Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President François Hollande of France, and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy. They discussed the international response to the ...
Lithuania will send 15 members of its parliament to observe the forthcoming general elections in Ukraine in late October, Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė said after meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev on Friday.
The Russian president has scored a victory in Ukraine and against the West. Vladimir Putin has got more than he hoped for, and yet there’s still a lot more that he can win. The game has now become long-term and one in which the most important thing will be strategic patience. And it’s not clear if R...
“If I wanted, in two days I could have Russian troops not only in Kiev, but also in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw, and Bucharest”, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said, according to a report in Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung on 18 September.
There is one thing that neither fans of Russia nor patriots of Ukraine in Odessa or Nikolayev can dispute. All totally agree that Russia attacked Ukraine.
The European Union's decision to give Ukraine more time to fully implement a trade pact to assuage Russian pressure is a potentially dangerous step that leaves the gates open for Moscow to press for major changes to the deal, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius told The Wall Street Journal...
In a letter to Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened that Moscow will shut Russian markets for Ukrainian exports if Kiev implements any part of a trade agreement with the European Union.
