Lithuania
Baltics Fight Back, Romanians Keep Silence
December 08, 2011By 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
December 06, 2011By 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
September 07, 2011Remarks 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
April 13, 2011Protracted 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
February 02, 2011Lithuanian 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
November 24, 2010Ukraine 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
May 24, 2010The 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
April 27, 2010Aistė 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
March 04, 2010By 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...
Lithuanian ex-president: Communism was never defeated (interview)
March 04, 2010In 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to proclaim independence, paving the way for the Soviet Union's collapse. Twenty years later, however, the Baltic state is still grappling with its communist legacy. Its first postcommunist head of...