Eastern Europe

The EU on Thursday refused to confirm a report that President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine's leader that Russian troops could invade Eastern European capitals within two days if ordered.

A meeting of chiefs of defense of NATO member-states is starting in Vilnius on Friday to address efforts to step up security in Eastern Europe and the future of the mission in Afghanistan.

In order to consolidate security in Eastern Europe, Germany will send about 800 soldiers to military exercises in the Baltic states next year, the Latvian National Armed Forces' Commander Raimonds Graube informed LETA.

Lithuania has continued its strong growth in attracting foreign direct investment projects over the first half of 2014 despite a fall in investments in the region as a whole, according fDi Markets, The Financial Times’ database of foreign direct investment (FDI).

Two weeks ago commentators were hyperventilating about a return to the 1930s in Europe, following a Russian invasion-of-sorts into eastern Ukraine.

Rūta Vanagaitė’s project “The Paneriai Lullaby”, which lets you interact with Jewish culture for a day, is one of the most successful projects financed by the European Commission (EC).

United States President Barack Obama and Great Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron stated on Thursday that NATO should ensure permanent military presence in Eastern Europe.

The United States and Russia entered a new and more dangerous phase of their pseudo-Cold War this week.

Paradoxically enough, it is during the term of the US president who thought Europe's security system a done deal and insisted on a "reset" in relations with Russia that Lithuania and other Baltic states will finally become full-fledged members of NATO.

The United States will send more troops and military equipment to the Baltic states, US President Barack Obama said during a visit in Estonia on Wednesday.

Seventy-five years ago this week, people in Europe and most of the world woke up to ominous newspaper headlines: "German Army Attacks Poland; Cities Bombed, Port Blocked; Danzig is Accepted into Reich", "War! Nazi Bombs Rain on Polish Cities". This was the start of the Second World War.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius has congratulated Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on his appointment as the new president of the European Council, the prime minister's press office said.

This year, during the month of July, the Central and Eastern European Coalition (CEEC), met with California U.S. congressman Adam Schiff and the U.S. Governor of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Matthew Armstrong, to exchange thoughts on Russian inspired and supported armed conflicts and t...

Ukrainai reikia išsivaduoti ne tik iš teroristų, bet ir iš ne ką mažesnio blogio, kuris nuosekliai darbuojasi ruošdamas dirvą visuomenės susiskaldymui ir terorui. Šis blogis – tai koncernas „Gazprom“, kuris uoliai vykdo Kremliaus nurodymus, ir kai tik į valdžią ateina provakarietiški politikai, iš k...

The sanctions of the West against Russia are followed by discussions about what effect they could have on further actions of Russia towards Ukraine. One side stresses that Putin and his closest environment understand only force, therefore the increasing sanctions are the best measure of scaring Russ...

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Eduard Shevardnadze, the last foreign minister of the Soviet Union and onetime president of Georgia, died Monday. Shevardnadze had not been active in politics since his ouster as president during the Rose Revolution in 2003. However, his time in politics marks two critical periods of transition in g...

Now that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is mired in a phone-tapping scandal, political editors say that he could have been more beneficial in the European Union (EU) Foreign Policy chief post instead of in Polish Foreign Ministry