Jorge Marcano | the Lithuania Tribune Read the first part of the Baltic Complexity Such situation has earned Latvia, international condemnation by the government of the Russian Federation, the Council of Europe and several international human rights organisations. As a result of this contemporary reality, …
President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the meeting of Central European heads of state with US President Barack Obama, Presidential Press Office repoerted. At the working dinner the Lithuanian President underlined that NATO anti-missile defense must cover all Allies. According to the President, NATO-Russian relations are particularly …
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is attending the 17th Meeting of Presidents of Central European States in Warsaw, Presidential Press Office reported. The purpose of the meeting is to make an overview of political transformations and democratic changes that took place in Central Europe over the past …
Tomorrow, on May 27, President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for a working visit to Warsaw where she will attend the 17th Meeting of Presidents of Central European States, President’s press office announced. More than twenty heads of state will be present at the Central European …
During her visit to Austria a couple of weeks ago, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite gave a brief interview to the Austrian daily Die Presse. She admitted her discontent about the military action in Libya. In the words of the President, even though Lithuania approved of …
Latvian commentator Pauls Raudseps questions government’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 …
Lithuanians nominated Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite as the Lithuanian Person of the Year 2010 and US President Barack Obama as the World’s Person of the Year 2010, in an annual poll conducted by Lietuvos Rytas and published on 31 December. Grubauskaite received 39.3% of all …
The Lithuanian Tribune would like to wish you all a very happy 2011 and thank you for being with us. 2010 were intense and let us hope that the light that we see in the year 2011 tunnel is not the light of an approaching …
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite was given the award of Foot in Mouth by the British the Economist weekly magazine. Her refusal to go to Prague in April to drink champagne with the US President Barack Obama to the START nuclear treaty, also her questioning of …
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’s relations with Russia went …
Antanas Kulakauskas, a Lithuanian political analyst, thinks that relations between Lithuania and Poland worsened after the presidents in both countries changed, but this was also influenced by Barack Obama’s assumption of office and a shift in the US strategy on Russia, Balsas.lt news portal reported …
Speaking about the NATO summit in Lisbon, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that all Lithuania’s requirements had been taken into account, including security guarantees for the Baltic States and the Alliance’s future relationship with Russia, the President’s office reported. “Article Five has finally become applicable in …
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 – …
President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė was honored as the Woman of the Year 2010 in the election of women world leaders organized by the U.S. Glamour magazine, Presidential Palace reported. The President of Lithuania is one of 19 women heads of states …
Is a meeting between the Lithuanian and American presidents news? No. I made such a conclusion after reading last week’s newspapers. Is a non-meeting between the Lithuanian and American presidents news? Yes, it is, and such news can be commented on for months, said Gintaras …
On September 7-8 United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will be visiting Lithuania, the Minstry of Defence reported. On September 8 the guest will pay a visit to the Ministry of National Defence and meet with the Minister of National Defence Rasa Juknevičienė, …
Lithuanian President, Dalia Grybauskaite, briefly met with the USA President Barack Obama, but there are no plans to have a bilateral meeting soon. The Lithuanian and US Presidents, who are attending the 65 General Assembly of the United Nations, had a conversation during a lunch …
President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York attended lunch hosted for heads of states by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Presidential press office announced. At the lunch, the President spoke with the U.S. President …
An interview with Emanuelis Zingeris, chairman of the Parliament Foreign Relations Committee published in Lietuvos rytas on 13 September. On Saturday (11 September), the tragedy of 11 September 2001, during which the airplanes hijacked by terrorists hit the twin towers in New York and the …
Nothing of the sort has happened in Lithuania before: President Dalia Grybauskaite has forced the most powerful country in the world – the United States – to explain itself in public. “From the United States perspective, Lithuania remains one of the United States strongest friends …
