Georgia

Establishing an international institution for investigating Communist crimes would be a rather symbolic act, but it will probably would not lead to prosecution of those behind the Communist repressions, says Professor Justinas Žilinskas of the Lithuanian Mykolas Romeris University's Department of In...

Po didžiosios pertraukos įsibėgėjusi Lietuvos šešiolikmečių (U16) merginų rinktinė nesustojo vienose iš svarbiausių rungtynių Europos B diviziono čempionate. Daliaus Ubarto auklėtinės 72:52 (10:15, 21:11, 28:14, 13:12) užtikrintai nugalėjo Graikijos bendraamžes ir, iškovojusios penktą pergalę iš eil...

The Lithuanian, Belarusian and Ukrainian foreign ministers have met in the Ukrainian southern city of Odessa, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius told BNS on Friday.

EN.DELFI TV by the Lithuania Tribune spoke to Anton Shekhovtsov, Visiting Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute (UK), Research Associate at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (Ukraine). We spoke about Mikheil Saakashvili‘s abilities as the governor in Ukraine. How will Mr. Saakashvili‘s ex...

During the second half of this year, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will pay visits to ten foreign countries, including Vatican where she will have an audience with Pope Francis.

By one of its definitions, hybrid war involves classical military actions as well as undermining activities, energy, economic and finance warfare and, most importantly, information warfare. This is the kind of hybrid war that Russian Federation is waging against Ukraine. However, in one of his artic...

The German daily Berliner Zeitung was the first one to report about the resignation of Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini as OSCE special envoy in Ukraine and OSCE representative at the Minsk peace talks. This lady made her name in political and diplomatic quarters when the international commission she led...

EN.DELFI TV by the Lithuania Tribune spoke to Andreas Umland, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (Kyiv) at the GlobSec 2015 conference in Bratislava. Why do you think the EU is so reluctant giving the Eastern Partnership countries perspective of joining the EU, we ...

The leader of Lithuania's conservatives MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis has suggested during a visit in Kiev that Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia should set up a joint battalion.

Russia is looking back on its Soviet past and is increasingly using the methods of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in an article published on Thursday.

Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius says that the West is not responding sufficiently to the placement of border markers with Georgia, this way approaching the Tbilisi-controlled territory even more, and calls for more pressure on the Russian Federation.

The Baltic states will be Russia's next target after Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to test NATO, Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia and now the governor of Ukraine's Odessa region, said in an interview on Tuesday.

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".

“I would compare Putin to the Roman leaders in the time of Roman Empire’s agony. While Caesar’s Rome was the Rome of ascendancy, Putin’s Rome is the one of decay. The regime in Russia shows all signs of agony,” says Kremlinologist Lilia Shevtsova.

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's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed grave concern over the ongoing 'borderization' process along the administrative boundary line between the Georgian region of Tskhinvali/South Ossetia and the remaining territory of Georgia.

Not long ago, on 2 April 2015 an agreement was reached in Lausanne, Switzerland, that was referred to as “historic”. The agreement was concluded between The Six (five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council + Germany) and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran takes the responsibility t...

The fourth Eastern Partnership Summit was held in Riga on 21-22 May 2015. The joint Declaration of the Riga Summit did not reaffirm either the European perspective of the Eastern European Partnership countries consistently demonstrating the best performance or the political support to Georgia and Uk...

Graikijos politikams intensyviai ieškant būdų, iš kur šaliai paimti pinigų ir kaip pagaliau susitarti su kreditoriais, paprasti šalies žmonės jau kurį laiką gyvena krizės nuotaikomis. Nemažai Graikijos žmonių skundžiasi, kad pastaruoju metu jiems net per pusę ar dar daugiau buvo sumažinti atlyginima...

Lithuania has allocated EUR 12,000 in humanitarian aid to Georgian people recently hit by floods, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.