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		<title>NATO strengthens Russia’s military</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/03/24/nato-strengthens-russia%e2%80%99s-military/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia considers NATO as an enemy, but NATO is boosting Russia’s military strength said Lithuania&#8217;s Ambassador to NATO Linas Linkevičius on 23 March on a live conference hosted by delfi.lt news portal.
The ambassador had in mind France’s intentions to sell Mistral warship to Russia.  He said, &#8220;I personally think this isn&#8217;t a good development. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G.Aleknonis-The Prisons of CIA. Truth under the counter</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/01/12/899/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/01/12/899/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gintaras Aleknonis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adamkus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Committee on National Security and Defence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Czech republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Czechoslovakia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gorbachev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirkilas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LEO LT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paksas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secret CIA prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Security Department]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vaclav Havel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[„At that time in Lithuania two equal forces stood in front of each other – bourgeois nationalists and the labour people. And if our paratroopers wouldn&#8217;t have interfered, nobody knows what could have happened&#8230;“ Such a version of the events of the 13th of January of 1991 I&#8217;ve heard from Mikhail Gorbachev.
A decade ago, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Committee received information about secret CIA prisons in Lithuania</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/11/30/parliamentarian-committee-received-information-about-secret-cia-prisons-in-lithuania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anusauskas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Committee on National Security and Defence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secret CIA prison]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The LNK TV station reported that according to its sources the Lithuania’s Parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee was informed today about the secret CIA prisons in Lithuania.  The Committee is investigating allegations made by the US ABC TV network about alleged CIA prisons in Lithuania.  The Committee is questioning various officers and former officers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania&#8217;s Russians Are Kremlin&#8217;s Weapon?</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/11/30/lithuanias-russians-are-kremlins-weapon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/11/30/lithuanias-russians-are-kremlins-weapon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eastern/Central Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latvia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania’s weekly paper of Russian minority Litovskiy Kuryer on 19 November published an article about a recent presentation of a project called &#8220;Humanitarian Aspects of Russia&#8217;s Foreign Policy Towards Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, and the Baltic Countries&#8221;.  It is interesting to see how the Lithuania’s minority paper views this report.
Lithuania&#8217;s Russians Are Kremlin&#8217;s Weapon? by Denis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden would intervene militarily to help the Baltic States</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/11/18/sweden-would-intervene-militarily-to-help-the-baltic-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/11/18/sweden-would-intervene-militarily-to-help-the-baltic-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighbours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sweden has changed its defence policy and would intervene military to help its Nordic neighbours and the Baltic States, the Swedish Svenska Dagbladet paper writes.
The paper reminded that the last Russian President’s visit to Sweden took place in 2001.   However, much has changed since then, especially in the Baltic Region when the Baltic States joined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania calls for a closer military cooperation with Nordic countries</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/11/06/lithuania-calls-for-a-closer-military-cooperation-with-nordic-countries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/11/06/lithuania-calls-for-a-closer-military-cooperation-with-nordic-countries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lithuanian Minister of Defence has expressed its wish for a closer military cooperation between the Baltic and Nordic nations.  The Ministry has issued a press release after the traditional Nordic-Baltic Defence Ministers Meeting in Helsinki on 4 and 5 November.
During this meeting Lithuania&#8217;s Defence Minister Rasa Jukneviciene expressed her wish that three Baltic States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATO hasn’t a defence plan to defend the Baltics but it would if necessary</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/10/09/nato-hasn%e2%80%99t-a-defence-plan-to-defend-the-baltics-but-it-would-if-necessary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalia Grybauskaitė]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is on a visit to the Baltic States.  His visit is taking place when the NATO&#8217;s new strategic concept is under preparation.  The new strategy should reflection all challenges of the 21st century.  One of the most important questions the Lithuanian’s asked was will the NATO defend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US State Secretary assured of US commitments to its allies</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/09/23/us-state-secretary-assured-of-us-commitments-to-its-allies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/09/23/us-state-secretary-assured-of-us-commitments-to-its-allies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missile defence shield]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[US decision to scrap missile defence system plans in Central Europe was not due to Russia&#8217;s stance, the US State Secretary Hillary Clinton assured  Lithuania&#8217;s Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas on evening of 22 September during their meeting in New York.  The State Secretary assured her Lithuanian counterpart that the new system will be implemented instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US abandons its plans in Central Europe, &#8216;it is not the best message for Lithuania&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/09/18/us-abandons-its-plans-in-central-europe-is-not-the-best-message-for-lithuania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrius Kubilius]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States&#8217; decision to abandon its plans to deploy a missile defence shield in Central Europe was met in Lithuania with caution and with a doze of pessimism.
The Prime Minster Kubilius stated to Bloomberg that Obama Administration should know a simple fact: the Central Europeans and the Balts need reassurance of their security.  Kubilius [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABC News – Lithuania hosted a CIA prison and we fully stand by our reporting</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/09/11/abc-news-%e2%80%93-lithuania-hosted-a-cia-prison-and-we-fully-stand-by-our-reporting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lithuanian media informed that the USA TV network ABC News is very likely to renew topic of CIA secret prison (black site) possibly located in Lithuania for a more than a year until late 2005.  The ABC News has reported about it on its web site on 20 August. Five days later the Russian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Russians claim to know a secret CIA prison’s location in Lithuania</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/08/25/the-russians-claim-to-know-a-secret-cia-prison%e2%80%99s-location-of-in-lithuania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Russian state run ‘Russia Today’ TV channel claimed that it knows the location of the secret CIA prison, so called ‘black side prison’.  The channel runs a story claiming that this ‘black side prison’ was located in Rūdininkai area, in a former Soviet military base.  The reporter says ‘It is here, about twenty minutes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuanian Prime Minister conveys his condolences to Estonia</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/08/25/lithuanian-prime-minister-conveys-his-condolences-to-estonia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lithuanian Prime Minister Kubilius conveyed his sincere condolences to the people of Estonia over death of two Estonian soldiers in Afghanistan. The two solders died previous Sunday in Kandahar province after their convoy was ambushed by the Taliban. Six Estonian soldiers had fallen in Afghanistan already. Lithuania suffered one casualty so far.
Nevertheless, the Lithuanian government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania denies claims about a secret CIA prison for Qaeda suspects</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/08/21/lithuania-denies-claims-about-a-secret-cia-prison-for-qaeda-suspects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US ABC News announced on August 20 that allegedly a secret CIA prison operated in Lithuania until 2005.  The Lithuanian officials have denied those allegations.
The station informed that the Lithuanian officials had provided the CIA with a building on the outskirts of Vilnius, where as many as 8 suspects were held for more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuanian troops should remain in Afghanistan until 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/08/19/lithuanian-troops-should-remain-in-afghanistan-until-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lithuanian Government has decided today to maintain its military presence in Afghanistan until 2013.
The Cabinet of Minister&#8217;s in today’s session agreed to back a drafted strategy for Lithuania&#8217;s participation in international missions in Afghanistan during the years 2009-2013.
Bernardinai writes that according to the document &#8220;Lithuania&#8217;s goal is to retain lead over the Ghor province, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuanians are concerned about Russia’s plans to allow army use abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The www.lrytas.lt quoted the BNS the Lithuanian politicians are showing signs of concern over a bill proposed by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that would permit to use the Russian armed forces to protect the Russian citizens living abroad. 
Vytautas Landsbergis, the Lithuanian member of the European Parliament told BNS that the bill: &#8220;highly resembled [...]]]></description>
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