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Again, this article will not be related to the structure, clans, their interrelations, and KGB basis in Putin’s current regime. This essay is a sequel of the previous piece which aimed to take another glimpse at Putin’s suspicious links with international terrorism.

According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, US Secretary of State John Kerry and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were distinctly active in foreign policy this year. Linkevičius also noticed that the role of personalities has been giving way to coordinated work of institutions and int...

Saudo Arabijos naftos ministras Ali al Naimis pareiškė, kad naftos gamintojų kartelis OPEC nemažins gavybos apimčių, net jei naftos kaina nukris iki 20 dolerių (54 Lt) už barelį.

It was all over the world news when Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė publicly stated that Russia was a “terrorist country”. She later explained that Russia “has attributes of a terrorist state”.

This year Vladimir Putin's annual address received particularly much attention: the leader of an aggressive state with declining economy was presenting his vision, a state that is a real headache to anyone who has to deal with it.

The Sultanate of Oman and a Vilnius-based food company Straikas have signed an agreement on exporting the Magnum brand fruit and vegetable juices to Oman, Times of Oman said.

Although international law as a concept of general principles and customs has been known for centuries, reaching as back as Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome, discussions concerning its existence and common application reached its apogee only in the 20th century; however, neither the theoretical discus...

Last week Lithuanian products were introduced in one of the major international food and beverage industry exhibitions SIAL Middle East 2014 in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A delegation headed by Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė visited the UAE. It is hoped...

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...

Unless the EU takes a tough stand on Russia's foreign policies, there will re-emerge deep divisions in the continent between a free Europe and a less free Europe, says Jeffrey Gedmin, president of the Legatum Institute in London and former president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Lithuania's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned Tuesday's terrorist attack in the Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem.

The European Union must continue its pressure on Russia for the war in Eastern Ukraine, says Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius.

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will attend the European Union's (EU) Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday. The main topic on the agenda is the situation in Ukraine.

Over the last few months, pro-Russian commentators in many Western countries have been portraying the Ukrainian events using a mix of stereotypes that scarily resemble the rhetoric once typical of racist and imperialist ways of thinking. As a result of such stereotypes, Ukrainians (but also Georgian...

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is participating at the European Union (EU) Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Monday.

Moscow seems to be making effort to patch up its relations with the West after a fall-out over Ukraine by trying to refocus attention away from Eastern Europe and onto the Middle East. Experts say, however, that the trick might not work.

Global peace is not a self-evident fact but common responsibility of all countries, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said in her speech at the general debate of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

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

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the killing of a humanitarian aid worker from the United Kingdom, David Haines, stating that the crimes cannot undermine the efforts against terrorism.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Vilnius on Thursday and emphasized Lithuania's interest of boosting exports of food products to the country.