Lithuania is a small country in comparison to Russia. So why does the Kremlin pay Lithuania a disproportionate amount of its attention? One reason is that it needs weak enemies that it can divert its people’s attention to. There was a time when Russian polls indicated that they saw Lithuania as thei...
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Georgia and Ukraine meet all benchmarks to be granted visa-free travel to the European Union, according to a report of the European Commission. Georgians and Ukrainians might be able to travel to the Schengen zone without visas as soon as next year.
Bringing Georgia closer to European but also Atlantic institutional structures continued to be one of Lithuania’s most important foreign policy objectives this year. Despite Russia’s creeping occupation efforts over the summer and the ramping up of its massive anti-Western propaganda machine, the sm...
A Russian sports website named sports.ru has given five Lithuanian basketball players the questionable honor of playing on that website's modern-day USSR fantasy dream team. The article's author recounted that four Lithuanian basketball players – Arvydas Sabonis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Valdemaras Cho...
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius says that invitation extended this week to Montenegro to begin NATO membership negotiations is a signal not only to the Western Balkans but Georgia as well.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that Lithuania would not be willing to join any coalition against the Islamic State that would include Russia as long as Moscow engages in aggression against Ukraine and Georgia.
After a meeting with Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili, Lithuanian PM Algirdas Butkevičius has said that attempts to restrict freedom of the press in Georgia are worrying.
Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili will be paying an official visit to Lithuania on 4-5 November.
For centuries, the rule of thumb in trade was that land divides, water unites. It took years and gradually months to follow an overland trading route from Europe to China, as opposed to months and eventually weeks by boat. But speed-trains are changing the global logistics map. These speed train con...
Embassy of Georgia in Lithuania is pleased to announce the official opening of Tbilisi Square on 4 November, 2015, 13:00, during the official visit of Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Garibashvili.
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The dangerous actions by Russia and Vladimir Putin pose the greatest challenge to security and democracy since WWII. This applies not only to the countries within Eurasia, but to our post-war vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace. While not necessarily a return to the Cold War, the current sit...
The Defence ministries of the Nordic and Baltic countries have signed an agreement on establishing a Nordic-Baltic Assistance Program to coordinate assistance to Georgia and Ukraine, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said in a statement.
Monday afternoon saw about 200 academics, political scientists, diplomats, members of the Seimas (parliament), democracy promoting think-thanks and action groups gathering in the Presidential Palace in Vilnius for the start of a two-day conference to discuss democracy or the lack thereof, particular...
"We support and will continue rendering political and practical support to Georgia's aspiration to become a member of NATO, we will spare no effort to ensure that Georgia gets prepared for NATO membership. We will continue providing bilateral assistance in the area of military training and will shar...
Georgia deserves NATO membership because of its reforms and participation in the Alliance's operations, Defence Minister Tinatin Khidasheli said in Vilnius on Monday.
Georgia’s first “freedom generation” will soon lead the country, economically and politically. This generation has never known anything but a Western oriented Georgia. By implementing a series of reforms associated with the projects of European and Euro-Atlantic integration, the independence generat...
Georgia's Defence Minister Tinatin Khidasheli is visiting Lithuania on Monday.
At the international conference in Tbilisi on 7 September, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius spoke about Europe's current geopolitical situation, Lithuania's MFA reports.
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will pay a visit to Georgia where the shock replacement of the foreign minister last week has raised doubts about the government's transparency.