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	<title>The Lithuania Tribune &#187; Medvedev</title>
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		<title>Energy and martyrdom; the consequences of playing the blame-game, by Fredrik Rydström</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/26/energy-and-martyrdom-the-consequences-of-playing-the-blame-game-by-fredrik-rydstrom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fredrik Rydström &#124; The Lithuania Tribune
In December 2010, after the withdrawal of the South Korean tender, it became clear that Lithuania’s efforts to rebuild the Ignalina nuclear power plant suffered yet another setback. Immediately after this purportedly devastating news, the Lithuanian government reassured the public that the plans of building a new nuclear plant on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reacting After the Fact Again? By Kestutis Girnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/28/reacting-after-the-fact-again-by-kestutis-girnius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Lithuanian politicians were paying great attention to the French government&#8217;s decision to sell Mistral-class warships to Russia. On Monday, the Minister of National Defence, Rasa Juknevičienė, met with the French ambassador and expressed her repeated criticism over the Mistral sale to Russia that was, purportedly, premature, Lietuvos zinios daily reported on 23 January.
Having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania Condemns Terrorist Attack in Moscow</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/25/lithuania-condemns-terrorist-attack-in-moscow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Audronius Azubalis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania condemned today’s terrorist attack in Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, and offered his condolences and support to the Russian people, the President and the Government.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite wrote to the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev following: &#8220;The whole of Lithuania and I were profoundly shocked to hear about the bomb explosion in Moscow&#8217;s Domodedovo airport that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latvia Enchanted by Moscow &#8211; Opinion</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/18/latvia-enchanted-by-moscow-opinion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/18/latvia-enchanted-by-moscow-opinion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latvian commentator Pauls Raudseps questions government&#8217;s silence about events in Russia and its ‘new pragmatism’ policy after Latvia’s Presidents’ delegation visit to Russia in December.  The text was published in Latvian weekly Ir on 6 January.
It was so long-awaited, and people talked about it so much and invested so much hope in it. The visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania Is Interested in Electric Power Import Tax &#8211; PM Kubilius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/12/26/lithuania-is-interested-in-electric-power-import-tax-pm-kubilius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the only candidate for strategic investor withdrew his offer, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said that he was still &#8220;moderately optimistic&#8221; about the success of the Visaginas nuclear power plant project.  The interview was published on 7 December in business daily Verslo Zinios.
The president Dalia Grybauskaite said that the environment for a new nuclear power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATO-Russia: tired of pessimism</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/12/08/nato-russia-tired-of-pessimism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/12/08/nato-russia-tired-of-pessimism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The element of surprise in the NATO Summit in Lisbon was that there were no surprises: Drafts of internal NATO documents were adopted and a turning point in relations with Russia was reached. Lietuvos Zinios daily said on 23 November.
NATO&#8217;s relations with Russia went through various stages: from the Gorbachev-era euphoria, through the symbolic moment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koreans withdrew from Lithuanian nuclear project after Medvedev’s visit to Seoul</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/12/03/koreans-withdrew-from-lithuanian-nuclear-project-after-medvedev%e2%80%99s-visit-to-seoul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Korea’s KEPCO withdrew from the tender to build a Lithuanian new nuclear plant just two weeks after Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s visit to Korea, Baltic News Service reported.  According to the agency’s sources, KEPCO sent its withdrawal letter to the Lithuanian government on 24 November, just two weeks after Medvedev visited Seoul.  According to BNS, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On our way to Russia&#8217;s embrace &#8211; opinion</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/11/21/on-our-way-to-russias-embrace-opinion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read fragments of a commentary by Mecys  Laurinkus, a former head of the State Security Department, a former Ambassador to Spain, and a former Ambassador to Georgia.  The commentary was published in Lietuvos rytas paper on 6 November.
Even though there is a lot of talk that our country&#8217;s foreign policy is becoming pragmatic and rational, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It is never too late to understand what is happening</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/11/18/it-is-never-too-late-to-understand-what-is-happening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lithuania’s public broadcaster’s web portal published a commentary by Arunas Brazauskas on the NATO’s relation with Russia.  The comment was published on 5 November.
 It is easy for commentators to discuss the recent elections to the US Congress. The predictions have been confirmed &#8211; the Democrats, the party of President Barack Obama, have been crushed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: Has Reset Succeeded? Riga Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/09/13/russia-has-reset-succeeded-riga-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second discussion on the day two of the Rīga Conference 2010 was “Russia: Has Reset Succeeded?&#8216; Latvian Transatlantic Organisation informed in a press release.  The chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Mr. Mikhail Margelov, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Mark Leonard, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania-Russia: another freeze after thaw</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/09/01/lithuania-russia-another-freeze-after-thaw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian daily Vilniaus diena in its 5 August editorial was critical on the Lithuanian Russian relationship.  Stasys Gudavicius thinks it is Russia to be blamed for a new freeze in bilateral relationships.
Perhaps a year ago President Dalia Grybauskaite was fostering certain seedlings of love towards Russia, but now those seedlings are completely gone, says Stasys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A U.S.-Russian Re-Set Is Good For Lithuania, by Dick Krickus</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/07/27/a-u-s-russian-re-set-is-good-for-lithuania-by-dick-krickus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Lucas who covers Central and Eastern Europe for the highly respected British publication, The Economist, recently wrote. “Spend a few days in Washington D.C. and you will hear a gloomy story about the shameful abandonment of America’s most loyal allies. It goes like this. The Bush administration yearned for a Europe whole and free. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania should be cautious about improving ties with Belarus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania’s leading daily Lietuvos rytas on 30 June posted an editorial examining Lithuania’s policy towards Belarus.  According to Lietuvos rytas the Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius&#8217;s working visit to Belarus even drew the attention of the world. This is not unexpected since the West views the authoritarian Alexander Lukashenka’s regime with suspicion; therefore, the Lithuanian Prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania’s Foreign Policy; forwards into the past.  By Kestutis Girnius</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, former President Valdas Adamkus stated he could not assess Lithuania’s foreign policy as he simply could not see it. He couldn’t see it because he wasn’t looking.  The changes are obvious and they are for the better.
V. Adamkus’ team, in fact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, focused particular attention to Eastern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now That Washington Is No Longer Providing The Narrative:What Should Lithuania’s Foreign Policy Be? By Dick Krickus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 20:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is justification to the claim that ever since it gained its independence in 1991, Lithuania’s foreign policy agenda has been crafted in Washington. It provided troops in support of America’s invasion of Iraq and it did the same thing in helping deny the Taliban a return to power in Afghanistan. Lithuania also supported Washington’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unappetizing Obama&#8217;s Dinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week (end of March, LTribune), an explosion shook the Lithuanian public domain &#8211; President Dalia Grybauskaite refused to meet with US President Barack Obama. How  unusual, our foreign policy has been such that if somebody invites us, we should go (well, except for going to Moscow on 9 May) writes Evaldas Labanauskas in Vilniaus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extravagant Lithuania’s Foreign Policy &#8211; Monika Garbačiauskaitė</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vague blueprints of the Lithuanian foreign policy of recent years have become clearer and have turned into incoherent extremes. At least that is an impression that one gets watching it from the outside. There are no explanations; therefore, one has to come up with its own conclusions.
Since the beginning of her term in office, President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kubilius: Obama understands the region&#8217;s problems well</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius met US president Barack Obama in Prague on Thursday night. He said after the meeting that Obama is well aware of the problems of the region, and that the American &#8220;reset” policy towards Russia is already showing results.
&#8220;President Obama left an impression that he knows our region&#8217;s and the whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President and Prime Minister expressed their condolences to Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Dalia Grybauskaitė offered her condolences to President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia over the explosions in Moscow Metro that left dozens of people dead and injured early Monday morning.
&#8220;The people of Lithuania and I were greatly shocked to hear about the deadly bombings in Moscow. I extend my sincere condolences to you personally, to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What did Lithuania achieve during 20 years of Independence? Kestutis Girnius</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no unanimous answer to this question. The optimists like the Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, claim that during those 20 years the achievements were bigger than during any other 20 years of the millennium of Lithuania&#8217;s existence. The kasandras of today, like the PR specialist Rūta Vanagaitė claim that there&#8217;re almost no achievements &#8211; that [...]]]></description>
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