In the last essay of this series, I presented the experience of historic and recent Russia‘s impact in Greece, now I will attempt to look at one of the new member states of the European Union – the Czech Republic.
Czech Republic
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This time I decided to take a closer analytic look and find an answer which becomes more and more important both in Lithuania and the Western countries when speaking about Kremlin’s aggressive actions.
Despite objections from some Central and Eastern European countries, the European Union's interior ministers on Tuesday voted in support of the plan to share 120,000 refugees.
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is unsure how many refugees Lithuania will have to accept because the number will vary depending on how many people the European Union (EU) decides to relocate.
The NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states was cut down from September because more than half of the fighter-jets assigned to the mission had been standing idle for the past six months, says the head of the Alliance's Military Committee General Petr Pavel.
Establishing an international institution for investigating Communist crimes would be a rather symbolic act, but it will probably would not lead to prosecution of those behind the Communist repressions, says Professor Justinas Žilinskas of the Lithuanian Mykolas Romeris University's Department of In...
Czech President Miloš Zeman has said that Russia's attack on the Baltic States would be suicidal for Moscow because the attack would drag NATO into a fight.
Russia has actively worked to boost its leverage in Central Europe over the past few years, and the crisis in Ukraine has only heightened the Kremlin's interest in the region. Russia aims to use commercial and political ties to undermine Western institutions and to steer Central Europe toward Russia...
The Lithuanian government on Wednesday backed the appointment of Marius Janukonis, director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Department, as the country's ambassador to Ukraine. Diplomat Edvilas Raudonikis will be appointed as Lithuania's ambassador to the Czech Republ...
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has extended sincere condolences to Czech President Miloš Zeman over the deadly shooting in Uhersky Brod on Tuesday.
On 3 February, director of the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence (NATO ENSEC COE) Colonel Gintautas Bagdonas and deputy director-general of the Office for Foreign Relations and Information of the Czech Republic Jan Padourek signed a voluntary national contribution arrangement which will serv...
The spread of the Ukrainian crisis has aroused strong reactions of the USA and the European Union against Russian interference in Ukrainian politics. Russia is a strategic market for Europe and the close trades and financial links have pushed the European Union in the direction of a more moderate an...
Lithuania's Ministry of Healthcare has asked for 490,000 litas (over EUR 140,000) in additional funding to prepare for the treatment of patients with Ebola, if the virus reaches Lithuania.
On Monday, an agreement was signed in Prague, Czech Republic, over the implementation of the European Union scientific research project ELI-Beamlines.
An interview with Andras Racz, a Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs.
On Friday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with Ambassador of the Czech Republic Radek Pech, who ends his term in Lithuania, the prime minister's office announces.
The ambassadors of the Czech Republic and Spain are ending their terms in Vilnius this July and will be replaced by new diplomats, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry has said.
