Baltic States

Growing consumer demand in Lithuania and the Baltic States is pushing developers to build bigger and bigger shopping centres throughout the three countries.

One thousand-strong battalions of NATO troops could be stationed permanently in Lithuania and each of the Baltic States under new plans to create a deterrent to Russian aggression.

Russia‘s influence on Lithuania and the Baltic States is in serious decline with Russian businesses and capital playing a smaller and smaller part in the region, according to Forbes.

A major British army exercise to practice an Iraq invasion-scale operation with US forces in Jordan is in preparation for a possible confrontation with Russia in Eastern Europe.

The election for US President is well underway and the races are so close that only a few percentage points could have an enormous effect on not only the Baltic States, but all of Europe.

Russian media has been flooded with articles in which senior Russian officials openly explain how they will attack and occupy the Baltic countries, but the Lithuanian foreign minister said the propaganda would not escalate tensions.

A recent programme aired by the BBC explores a hypothetical doomsday scenario of a nuclear stand-off between Russia and NATO over Latvia. Analysts in Lithuania say it presents too simplistic a take on geopolitical realities in Eastern Europe which, in itself, could erode confidence in NATO's collect...

If Russian tanks and troops invaded the Baltic States, NATO forces would be overrun in just under three days, according to a war games simulation by the Rand Corporation, a leading US think tank.

As the presidential race in the United States picks up pace, political analyst Simonas Klimanskis looks at which of the front-runners for the Democratic and Republican parties’ nominations would pursue foreign policies that are in the best interests of the Baltic States and Eastern Europe.

The EU wants to examine the contracts which Gazprom has signed with European companies including in Lithuania, amid suspicions that the Russian state energy company has imposed unfair prices which breach EU rules, a German newspaper has reported.

The price of services in Lithuania grew more than in any other European Union country last year, increasing over 5%.

Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė urged Ukraine to push on with the reforms at a meeting of parliamentary speakers of the Nordic and Baltic States (NB8) with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev.

In 2015 new cars sales in Lithuania grew by nearly a fifth, but one brand’s sales plummeted. Lada sales shrank by whopping 81.2% with only two Russian-made Lada cars bought in the whole of Lithuania.

US President Barack Obama is planning to substantially increase the deployment of heavy weapons and armoured vehicles in Lithuania and the Baltic States, and all along NATO’s eastern flank, to send a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, writes the New York Times.

The fight against the propaganda in democratic countries must adhere to democratic principles and governments should refrain from blocking contrarian opinions where possible, said Dunja Mijatović, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) representative for media freedom, who i...

Political analysts have said that the new Polish government paid little attention to Lithuania in its newly presented diplomatic priorities, that were presented by the Polish Foreign Affairs Minister Witold Waszczykowski.

Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office and the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) are conducting a probe into alleged illegal activities by Vilniaus Prekyba, one of Lithuania’s biggest business groups, and its shareholders, including Lithuania’s richest businessman, Nerijus Numavičius. Nu...

Global M&A activity grew to record levels in 2015, fuelled by some mega mergers in the pharmaceutical, energy and consumer industries. Lithuania bucked the trend with less consolidation and acquisitions than in the previous year and stood out as the least active in the corporate bond market. The fin...

The Kremlin‘s propaganda rarely shocks anymore and hardly registers as news with most people but some of it deserves attention because when a specific propaganda message is repeated over and over, it is done in an attempt to embed it in our minds as being the uncontestable truth. In the case of Kali...

After riding themselves of dependence on unpredictable markets in Russia Lithuanian exporters are facing another potential crisis in Poland, according to Swedbank economist Nerijus Mačiulis.