Section: The Baltic Course (Latvia)
Baltic Foodout acquires Ukraine’s delivery company Eda.ua
Baltic food ordering platform Foodout has acquired Ukraine’s leading food delivery service Eda.ua, LETA was told at the company. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Putin extends embargo on Western food imports through 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday extended Moscow’s embargo on food products from the West until the end of 2018, continuing its policy of retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine, reports LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
EU extends Russia economic sanctions
The European Union on Wednesday formally rolled over damaging economic sanctions against Russia for another six months, saying Moscow had failed to live up to its Ukraine ceasefire commitments, reports LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Baltic food ordering platform Foodout poised to enter Ukraine
Baltic food ordering platform Foodout says that it has bought a stake in Ukraine’s food ordering website Eda.ua and also plans to launch operations in Belarus, writes LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
DONBASS: Humanitarian crisis in silence. Since 2014 until now.
Late autumn 2014 we met with Alexander Hug, principal deputy of the OSCE observation mission in Ukraine for the first time. It was Brussels, the European Parliament and the hearing on the future of Minsk Agreements held there. Now we are again together. This time in Helsinki taking about the future of Minsk Agreements. …read more Source:...
EU extends sanctions on Russia
The European Union decided on Monday to extend sanctions against Russia for a year over its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, reports LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
U.S. engagement in the Baltic Region
When Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland requested and received U.S. and NATO military support following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, it garnered massive attention – and rightly so. The measured response to Russian aggression, which supplemented on-going training, exercises, and Baltic Air Policing, demonstrated U.S. commitment...
Lithuania president congratulates Ukraine on visa-free travel
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on Friday congratulated Ukrainians on the start of visa-free travel to the European Union and urged them to continue reforms in order to join the EU and NATO, reports LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Lithuanian president arrives in east Ukrain to celebrate visa-free travels
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite on Friday arrived in the city of Kharkov in eastern Ukraine to congratulate Ukrainians on visa-free travels to the European Union (EU) and express support in the Kiev conflict with Moscow, reports LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Estonian Railways skeptical about Kiev-Tallinn passenger train link
Commenting on a plan of Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan to establish a train connection between Kiev and the capitals of the Baltic countries, the manager of the state owned railway company Estonian Railways expressed skepticism about the idea, writes LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...