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We congratulate the people of Ukraine for expressing their will in free and democratic early elections to Verkhovna Rada and for choosing European future.

Lithuania's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Raimonda Murmokaitė on Friday called on the international community to condemn the elections being organized by pro-Russian separatists in Donbass, Ukraine, on 2 November.

Veronika Kristkova, a legal expert of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) office of the high commissioner for national minorities, is visiting Lithuania to collect information for a report on the situation of ethnic minorities in the country.

Russia is violating fundamental principles of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), thus undermining European security, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says.

In the last essay of the “Putin’s Russia” series we have reviewed the assumptions that suggest that namely Rogozin’s clan was the main architect and executor behind the Ukraine’s events. Therefore it would be natural to explore which Russian government clans are the most active in opposing the aggre...

Alea iacta est. NATO has agreed on the formation of a special ‘spearhead force’ (officially: Very High Readiness Joint Task Force) that, if necessary, will offer the eastern member states (additional) protection against Russia’s imperialist whims. After twenty years of peace keeping operations and c...

Representatives of the Ukrainian government and separatist rebels signed a protocol in Minsk, declaring a ceasefire as of Friday 6 PM, Intefax news agency reports.

Žinia apie Ukrainos ir Rusijos paliaubas sujudino pasaulio akcijų rinkas, tačiau investuotojų lūkesčiai buvo netrukus „apkarpyti“ (S&P 500 -0,08 proc., NASDAQ -0,56 proc., DOW JONES +0,06 proc.). Iš pradinės Ukrainos vadovo kalbos, apibūdinančios taikos su Rusija susitarimą, dingo žodis „ilgalaikis“...

More effort will be needed for the Americans to understand Europe due to demographic changes in the United States, including a rising number of Spanish-speakers, US Ambassador to Lithuania Deborah McCarthy says.

On 18-22 August, inspectors of the Arms Control Unit of the Lithuanian Armed Forces are visiting military units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan based in the region of Astana. The Lithuanian delegation of arms control inspectors will also observe multinational Exercise Vzaimodeistvi...

On 31 July, the international Contact Group, which aims to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, met in Zaslavl, Belarus. It was attended by former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, Russia’s ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, some representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, and Ad...

Lithuanian diplomat, Ambassador Vaidotas Verba has been appointed as Project Coordinator of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine.

International observers do not question the presidential elections in Turkey, held on Sunday, but reproach over the use of public funds for election campaign, Lithuanian lawmaker Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė, who observed the election, told BNS on Monday.

A group of members of the Lithuanian Parliament are to observe the presidential election in Turkey on 10 August.

Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė has been appointed as Special Co-ordinator of the mission to observe presidential election in Turkey on 10 August.

Eleven days after it crashed, the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 remains out of reach for international investigators.