There is no doubt who gained most from the deal reached in Minsk on February 12th to end the conflict in Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a minimum, a frozen conflict will block Ukraine’s progress towards NATO and the EU; and if fighting resumes, the terms of the ceasefire will leave Uk...
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The West must tighten the existing sanctions against Russia in response to Moscow's and pro-Russian separatists' failure to comply with the Minsk agreement, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday flew to the military operation zone in Ukraine's eastern regions, reports Ukrainian media.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė will this week go to Ukraine to attend events to mark the anniversary of Euromaidan rallies.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Linas Kojala, Analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Center. Based on the information we have at the moment, can we say that the outcome of the Minsk agreement is a strategic victory for Russia, we asked Kojala.
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Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post-Soviet leader and honorary chairman of the conservative Homeland Union, says that the Minks agreement for ceasefire between Kiev's forces and Moscow-supported separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine, which was signed on Thursday, is worse than the Munich a...
The outcome of the ongoing talks in Minsk might be "bad" or "very bad", says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, an analyst from the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre, commenting on the talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine that continue in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Thursday.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has left for Brussels to attend an informal meeting of the European Council, the presidential press service said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be spoken to in the language of ultimatums at talks on the Ukraine crisis, a Russian radio station quoted the Kremlin as saying on Monday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is visiting Kiev on Thursday, has said that Russian aggression in Ukraine cannot be ignored, Euronews reports.
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Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė leads the annual rating Top-10 Ukraine's Promoters in the World 2014 presented by the Institute of World Policy, the President's Office said on Thursday.
A special event on Monday evening, 26 January, will pay tribute to victims of Saturday's attack on Mariupol outside the Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas.
There's evidence confirming that Russia is taking direct part in the ongoing military operation in eastern Ukraine, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday.
President Barack Obama, during his State of the Union address to the American Congress on Tuesday night, spoke about the situation in Ukraine. He advocated the use of diplomacy to uphold the principle that bigger nations cannot bully the small.
The Merchants' Guild building on Gedimino Avenue in central Vilnius hosted a conference in late November 2013 which featured Ukraine's opposition players.
As the standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine continues into 2015, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will come to play an increasingly important role. Even before the crisis, the three Baltic states — as well as neighboring Poland — were among the most active EU member...
Lithuania has provided Ukraine's army with the elements of munitions it had requested, Defence Minister Juozas Olekas confirmed to BNS on Monday.