Lithuania
EU officials in Moldova: Association Agreement likely to be finished in June, signed in November
Two more European officials made a working visit to Moldova. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius and Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg voiced very encouraging messages regarding the European prospects of the Republic of Moldova. They...
Baltics Fight Back, Romanians Keep Silence
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- On November 17, 2011, Russia made a statement, according to which, the Baltic countries would be voluntarily joined to Soviet Union and the military actions it initiated would be defensive, not of employment...
Russia defends Soviet annexation of Baltic States and Moldova
By Vladimir Socor/ Jamestown Foundation/ Washington, DC -- On December 1 and 2, respectively, Lithuania’s and Estonia’s ministries of foreign affairs (MFAs) refuted the Russian MFA’s latest claims that the three Baltic States (Estonia...
Moldova after 20 years: A mixture of lost opportunities, successes and challenges
Remarks by Vlad Spânu, President of the Moldova Foundation, at the Panel Discussion: "Moldova’s Democratic Transition: 20 Years of Challenges and Successes" held on August 31, 2011 at NED in Washington, DC For me, like for many...
Resolution of protracted conflicts crucial for OSCE, Lithuanian President says
Protracted conflicts are of key importance to the OSCE, and efforts to resolve them are crucial to unity among the Organization’s 56 participating States, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite told the OSCE Permanent Council today. Grybauskaite...
Lithuanian chairmanship tackles protracted conflicts in the OSCE
Lithuanian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Audronius Azubalis, outlined the chairmanship’s priorities in the Permanent Council’s September 13 and subsequent meetings, as well as statements and introductory visits by his special...
Ukraine to chair the OSCE in 2013
Ukraine will hold the OSCE Chairmanship in 2013, foreign ministers from the 56 OSCE participating States decided today. The decision was taken by the required consensus in a silence procedure. Kazakhstan chairs the OSCE in 2010, and Lithuania will...
PACE rapporteurs commend Moldovan authorities
The governing Alliance for European Integration's efforts to govern the country as efficiently as only possible in the conditions of an institutional collapse were praised by the Josette Durrieu (France, SOC) and Egidijus Vareikis (Lithuania, EPP/CD)...
Why the war in Europe did not end in 1945
Aistė Bertulytė-Žikevičienė, Vilnius University (2009) Armed anti-Soviet resistance in Lithuania and Western Ukraine European countries tend to commemorate various anniversaries each year. These commemorations mark the symbolism and the role...
Kaliningraders want to live like Poles or Lithuanians
By Paul Goble The residents of Kaliningrad are protesting because they would like to live as well as their neighbors in Poland and Lithuania, a motivation many in Moscow find it difficult to fathom because many Russians view Eastern Europe as poor...
