war in Ukraine

Today, on 29 August, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with heads of 63 Lithuanian diplomatic missions, consular posts and representations to international organisations, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Издание «РуБалтик» опять распространяет дезинформацию – на этот раз журналист пропагандистского ресурса прокомментировал Стамбульские соглашения по зерну, подписанные 22 июня этого года между Украиной и Турцией с ООН и Россией и Турцией с ООН. Автор статьи утверждает, что ООН признала за Россией пол...

More than two thirds of people in Lithuania are satisfied with the government's response to Russia's war in Ukraine, according to a Eurobarameter survey published last week.

Buying Russian gas and oil amid the ongoing war in Ukraine is immoral, says Asta Skaisgiryte, chief adviser on foreign policy issues to the Lithuanian president.

The security situation would not change even if the war in Ukraine was stopped, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says.

The Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD) has warned of possible provocations and violent incidents on May 9, when Russians mark the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.

Seeking full energy independence from Russian gas and in response to Russia's energy blackmail in Europe and the war in Ukraine, Lithuania has completely given up Russian gas, the Lithuanian Energy Ministry says.

The routines in Šalčininkai was disrupted by an unprecedented commotion on the 11th of April. Men armed with guns stormed the city police station, took over a part of it stunning the officials and local residents.

NATO and Russian officials will meet for the first time in two years on April 20.

The Western political establishment is hostile to Russia. This makes it all the more important to demonstrate that the Western religious establishment is more sympathetic. Regardless of Putin’s aims, the meeting between Pope and Patriarch has become a landmark event in the history of Christianity.

Imagine for a moment that almost half of the population of Vilnius was Ukrainian refugees fleeing the civil war that rages on with the help of Putin's Russian army. That is the present situation in Lebanon, which is hosting several million Syrian refugees.

The international community should not demand that the Ukrainian government grants autonomy to its eastern regions until Russia ensures security in the region, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius argues in an op-ed piece published in the Wall Street Journal.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is not surprised by the findings in the British High Court judge's report concerning the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko and says that the document is further proof of how unpredictable Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin, have become.

When Lithuania had huddled up under NATO’s wing, it felt more secure and even unconcerned as to where it would get more funding for its army or how it could modernize it. The events in Georgia and Ukraine, however, jolted the Baltic country out of its lethargy and forced it to look at how it can str...

Alexei Venediktov, the editor-in-chief of Echo Moskvy, spoke to Delfi about the threat of escalation in the tensions between Russia and the Baltics. His radio station is considered by many to be the last major independent media outlet in Russia, and has run into trouble with Russian government media...

Starting on 1 January, 2016, a new motorized infantry brigade named Žemaitija will be formed in Western Lithuania.

In the previous articles of the series ‘Putin’s Russia: Kremlin’s Goals and Tools’, I analysed the theory and practice of Russia’s foreign policy and drew attention to the fact that Russia still uses the ammunition of USSR KGB – disinformation, influence agents, scandals (e.g., Edward Snowden's stor...

Conventional wisdom dictates vision before planning. It seems neither are present in the cautious, yet steady Western reset with Belarus, whose authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko recently secured his fifth term in elections widely considered to be flawed, argues Marius Laurinavičius, fellow a...

Speaking at an opening of a NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence in Latvia on Thursday, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė warned about the threats of propaganda.

When NATO confirmed last week that it was cutting the Baltic air policing mission in half - eight fighter jets will patrol the skies of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia instead of the current 16 - the reactions were varied.