: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Section: The Baltic Course (Latvia)

    Lithuanian president: Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a geopolitical project
    Mar17

    Lithuanian president: Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a geopolitical project

    Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite says that the planned second gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea is not a commercial project, but a geopolitical one aimed at harming Ukraine and dividing Europe, and that she and the leaders another seven EU member countries have signed a letter to European Commission President...

    Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian nationals detained in Spain for producing drugs
    Mar14

    Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian nationals detained in Spain for producing drugs

    The police in Spain arrested five people, including from Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine, after seizing thousands of packages of rave drugs described as more toxic than cocaine or marijuana, reported LETA/BNS, referring to The Daily Star. …read more Source: The Baltic...

    Idle production plant to cost KVV Liepajas Metalurgs EUR 0.5 mln monthly
    Mar14

    Idle production plant to cost KVV Liepajas Metalurgs EUR 0.5 mln monthly

    Even with the production plant standing idle, KVV Liepajas Metalurgs metallurgy company has to reckon with regular monthly expenses of EUR 0.5 million, the plant’s Ukrainian owners, KVV Group, said, informs LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...

    EU extends sanctions on individuals over Ukraine to September
    Mar11

    EU extends sanctions on individuals over Ukraine to September

    The European Union on March 10th extended by six months until September sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian individuals over the conflict in Ukraine, it said in a statement, cites LETA/AFP. …read more Source: The Baltic...

    Ukrainians evaluating possibility of preserving KVV Liepajas Metalurgs
    Mar10

    Ukrainians evaluating possibility of preserving KVV Liepajas Metalurgs

    Ukraine’s KVV Group is evaluating the possibility of suspending the operations of joint-stock metallurgical company KVV Liepajas Metalurgs and preserving the factory is the Cabinet of Ministers does not make any constructive decisions during its March 15 meeting, the KVV Group told LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...

    Ukrainian company begins producing cheese in former DK Daugava production plant
    Mar09

    Ukrainian company begins producing cheese in former DK Daugava production plant

    The Ukrainian-owned dairy company Latvian Dairy Ltd. has begun producing various types of cheese for export in the former DK Daugava milk-processing plant in Jaunjelgava County, and is currently employing approximately 60 persons, the company’s representatives told LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...

    Lithuania, 4 other states want EU to make “Savchenko List”
    Mar09

    Lithuania, 4 other states want EU to make “Savchenko List”

    Lithuania and four other countries have suggested that the European Union (EU) should make a so-called Nadiya Savchenko list, with Russian officials on the list imposed sanctions for prosecution of the Ukrainian pilot, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius confirmed BNS on Wednesday, informs LETA. …read more Source: The...

    Nearly half asylum applicants in Estonia are from Ukraine
    Mar07

    Nearly half asylum applicants in Estonia are from Ukraine

    Ukrainian nationals made up nearly half of the applicants for asylum in Estonia in 2015, it appears from figures released by Eurostat, cites LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...

    Poland-Lithuania airspace block, with partners, seeks to render services to whole EU
    Mar04

    Poland-Lithuania airspace block, with partners, seeks to render services to whole EU

    Lithuania’s and Poland’s air traffic control services providers Oro Navigacija and PANSA, which have created the Baltic Functional Airspace Block (Baltic FAB), a common Poland-Lithuania airspace block, have teamed up with partners from Ukraine and Spain to bid in a tender to develop a centralized system for the European Union’s...

    Latvian MFA: Ukraine must persist with reforms
    Mar03

    Latvian MFA: Ukraine must persist with reforms

    The international community must continue to call upon Ukraine’s political elite to persist in the reform process, which is already underway despite the internal challenges, Zanda Kalnina-Lukasevica (Unity), the Latvian Foreign Ministry’s Parliamentary Secretary, said during the meeting with a delegation from the Romanian parliament,...