Section: Latvia
Ukraine International Airlines to launch Palanga-Kiev flights
Ukraine International Airlines will launch a route between Ukraine’s capital Kiev and the Lithuanian seaside resort of Palanga in summer 2016, informs LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
KVV Group denies any involvement of Kazmin in criminal activities
Ukraine’s KVV Group, the owner of the Latvian metallurgical plant KVV Liepajas Metalurgs, categorically rejects allegations about involvement of its co-owner, Yevgeny Kazmin, in financing of separatism in Ukraine or any other criminal activities in Ukraine and illegally occupied territories, informs LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Estonia and Germany strengthen parliamentary cooperation
Deputy Speaker of the Estonian parliament Helir-Valdor Seeder and Speaker of the parliament of the German state of Bavaria Barbara Stamm talked about cooperation, interparliamentary ties, the situation in Europe and migration crisis, relations with Russia and Ukraine-related developments at a meeting here on ay 6th, reports LETA/BNS. …read...
Man in Russia sent to prison for reposting article on social network
Court in Tver, Russia, has on May 5 sentenced a local man for reposting an article entitled “Crimea is Ukraine» on social networking site Vkontakte to two years and three months in prison. …read more Source: Baltic News...
On Ukrainians’ request, Estonian bookstores pull Russian propaganda books
Following a protest from local Ukrainian organizations, Estonia’s two largest bookselling chains pulled literature, which according to the Ukrainian organizations defames Ukraine and justifies Russia’s aggressive foreign policy, informs LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Crimean Tatar assembly outlawed in Russia-land-grabbed Crimea
A court in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, has on April 26 outlawed the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, the assembly of Tatar community leaders. …read more Source: Baltic News...
30th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster marked in Ukraine
Commemorative events are being held in Ukraine on April 26 to mark the 30th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster – still the worst in the history of nuclear power plants. …read more Source: Baltic News...
A new “union” is born: the need for a “unified” security policy among EU-28
The Commission prepared a package of legal drafts concerning the most pressing challenges the EU as a whole presently faces, i.e. security, migration and Ukraine. First of all, the package aims at more coordinated and more “unified” security policy: in Commission’s words, “we need to move towards a genuine and effective Security Union”....
Lithuania and Ukraine sign further bi-lateral military agreements – The Baltic Times
Lithuania’s National Defence Ministry announced on April 18, 2016, that it will advise Ukraine on revamping its sergeants’ corps, an…… …read more Source: The Baltic...
Latvian MFA: EU must do more to counter illegal migration
On 15 April, the Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics took part in the Kyiv Security Forum and delivered remarks at the plenary session entitled “European Unity: New Breath or Last Call” speaking about challenges posed by migration at the European and global scale, as well as about the upcoming British referendum on the future of its EU...
