Abkhazia

Around 50 people attended a rally organized by the opposition party Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats near the Russian Embassy in Vilnius on Friday, protesting against Moscow's actions in Georgia and calling them "creeping occupation".

A couple of days ago, on 10 July, news came that two new border signs sprang up in Georgia, declaring that here begins the “border of South Ossetia". One of the signs moved about 300 metres from its original position into the zone controlled by Tbilisi, the other sign progressed forwards by about a ...

Lithuania does not want confrontation with Russia, but Moscow must stick to agreements, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says.

Georgia's ambassador to Lithuania, Khatuna Salukvadze, says that the Eastern Partnership summit to be held in Riga on 21 May cannot end in awkward silence instead of offering clear answers.

The Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs has adopted a statement on the annexation by Russia of Georgia's regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali.

An appeal, by 142 German-speaking experts on Eastern Europe, calls for a reality-based and not illusions-guided Russia policy.

Currently it seems that the on-going Ukrainian–Russian conflict in the East of Ukraine is drawing to a possible end. However, it looks as if a newly minted ‘frozen conflict’ zone is poised to appear on the world map. While the end of active fighting might seem as a positive development, a ‘frozen co...

Russia is de facto annexing Georgia's separatist Abkhazia region, with whom Moscow signed the so-called "strategic partnership" treaty, according to Georgia's Ambassador in Vilnius Khatuna Salukvadze.

Lithuania expresses its firm support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia within its internationally recognised borders, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement.

Six years ago, when Russia attacked Georgia and tore off the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Western countries were, as always, "very concerned", sent out their observers, provided humanitarian support and Nocolas Sarozy, the then President of France, volunteered to mediate in sett...

At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, the Lithuanian ambassador called on Russia to withdraw troops from Ukraine and refrain from actions which would mean a de facto annexation of Abkhazia.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said during a visit in Georgia that Russia's proposal for Abkhazia to sign a special agreement is an attempt to de facto annex the region.

Georgia's Deputy Prime Minister Georgi Kvirikashvili, also the country's economy minister, has said in Vilnius that the treaty proposed by Russia for Abkhazia resembles the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.