Estonia’s Ilves slams Swiss for being sanctions holdout
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves says Switzerland, which refrained from joining most of the rest of Europe in applying punitive sanctions against Russia, has placed its own interests and banking...
View Article300 Estonian soldiers helping to safeguard Obama
Three hundred members from the Estonian Defence Forces and Defence League will be providing additional security during the US President Barack Obama's visit to Estonia on 2 and 3 September. The...
View ArticleEstonia wants permanent NATO bases on its territory, President Ilves says in...
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said on Tuesday during a state visit in Norway that Estonia wants permanent NATO bases on its territory. [...] The post Estonia wants permanent NATO bases on its...
View ArticleUS President Barack Obama arrives in Tallinn
The US President Barack Obama has arrived in the Estonian capital Tallinn. [...] The post US President Barack Obama arrives in Tallinn appeared first on the Lithuania Tribune.
View ArticleObama in Tallinn: NATO defence commitment firm and eternal
US President Barack Obama in Estonia on Wednesday restated NATO collective defense commitments and pledged to send more warplanes to exercises in the Nordic and Baltic region. [...] The post Obama in...
View ArticleLithuanian observer unpacks Obama’s statements in Tallinn: nothing new
Even though US President Barack Obama has expressed strong support for the Baltic States in Tallinn, Lithuanian observers say his statements were cautious enough to leave open door for a dialogue with...
View ArticlePresident Ilves tiptoes around question of invalidating NATO-Russia pact
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has indicated on Wednesday that since the security situation in Europe has changed, the 1997 NATO-Russia pact lost its validity, but he stopped short of calling...
View ArticlePresident Grybauskaitė: Regional security is common interest of Germany and...
President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with President of the Federal Republic of Germany Joachim Gauck. Taking part in the meeting on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall were also...
View ArticleLithuanian foreign minister and human rights activist greet Latvian foreign...
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics came out as gay on Thursday, stirring reactions across the Baltics. Lithuanian foreign minister congratulated his colleague, while a human rights activist says...
View ArticleEdward Lucas to become Estonia’s first e-resident
Estonia's first e-resident will be British journalist and columnist Edward Lucas, Minister of Internal Affairs Hanno Pevkur said on Thursday at the government press conference, Delfi reports. [...] The...
View ArticleLithuania’s Grybauskaitė stresses importance of defence and energy...
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with her Latvian, Estonian and Polish counterparts in Tallinn on Tuesday, where she discussed the importance of long-term collective defence instruments and...
View ArticleLithuanian president: Jets near Baltic air-space are sign of Russian...
The increasingly frequent Russian provocations by flying its military jets close to the Baltic air-space shows “stupidity, not power,” says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. [...] The post...
View ArticleEstonian PM: Russian-speakers are better protected in Baltics than in Russia
Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas has a pretty clear idea about whether Russia could use force in the Baltic states to "defend" Russian compatriots - absolutely not. He is also clear about the...
View ArticleEstonian president compares situation in Russia to The Godfather
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has compared compared the situation in Russia to "The Godfather" film and called Russian regime authoritarian capitalism, Postimees Online reports. [...] The...
View ArticleOpinion: The Russians are coming to occupy the Baltic states
I purposefully chose a title for my piece to evoke the notorious phrase from 1949 by the then US Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal: "The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming. They’re right...
View ArticleLithuanian president to join end of WWII commemoration in Poland
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is travelling to Poland on Thursday to attend, alongside other European leaders, commemorative events marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two....
View ArticleOpinion: Putin’s War on Terror
Should the West embrace Russia as a partner in the struggle against terrorism, now that the heartland of European Enlightenment, France, has been hit by radical-islamist assaults again, and should it...
View ArticleForeign presidents pay tribute to Lithuania’s January 13 victims
Presidents of Georgia, Ukraine and Estonia have congratulated Lithuania on January 13, when the country celebrates the 25th anniversary since it defended its independence from Soviet forces. [...] The...
View ArticlePutin congratulates Estonia on its independence
Russian president Vladimir Putin congratulated Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Estonia's day of independence. [...] The post Putin congratulates Estonia on its independence appeared first on...
View ArticleIs Lithuania becoming ‘just another boring Nordic country’?
During his first term as the President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves announced that Estonia should aim to become ‘just another boring Nordic country’. Easy said than done, Estonian national politics...
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