Estonian President Toomas Henrik Ilves called on Monday for closer cooperation with Russia in combating illegal immigration to EU countries.
“I mean cooperation between the police and border protection services of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden, as well as our cooperation with Russia, because it is from there that illegal refugees are attempting to penetrate [...]
Latvia’s ruling New Era party said on Sunday it would appeal against a decision by the Latvian capital’s legislature to ban a demonstration by Waffen SS veterans and their supporters on March 16.
The decision to ban the Waffen SS veterans demonstration was made by the Riga Duma on Friday.
The New Era party argued on its [...]
WARSAW (RIA Novosti) — Warsaw could get an additional billion euros ($1.35 billion) from Brussels in 2011-2012 as a reward for the country’s dynamic economic growth in recent years, Polish Radio reported on Thursday.
It cited informal sources as saying substantial funds were earmarked for Poland from a special 3 billion-euro fund for countries that have [...]
RIGA (RIA Novosti) – In Latvia’s largest ever leak of confidential info, a total of 7.4 million of tax documents were stolen from the server of the country’s state revenue service, the country’s media said.
The LTV1 channel said in its De Facto program on Sunday evening that unidentified people received access to documents on incomes of [...]
Russia’s Kruzenshtern sailing ship has arrived at the Port of Vancouver for the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
VANCOUVER (RIA Novosti) – The tall ship has a crew of some 200 students from Russia’s Baltic Academy and other fishery academies and will become an “additional office” for the Russia House in Vancouver during the Games. [...]
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed increasing natural gas deliveries to Lithuania.
HELSINKI (RIA Novosti) – ”We are ready to consider all [gas] demands on good terms,” Putin told Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on the sidelines of the Baltic Sea Action Summit (BSAS) in Helsinki on Wednesday.
“We have grounds to believe that Lithuania’s natural gas demands [...]
Pumping of Russian natural gas to Europe via the Baltic Nord Stream pipeline will start in September 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) – ”In May 2011, construction is to be completed on the sea section and on land in Germany and Russia. And gas will start to be pumped in September,” [...]
VILNIUS (RIA Novosti) – Lithuania’s defense minister said that a decision by NATO member France to sell Russia a top-of-the-range warship demonstrates that the alliance is no threat to Moscow.
France said on Monday it had agreed to sell Russia a Mistral-class warship, worth 400-500 million euros (around $600-$750 million), despite concerns by some of Russia’s former [...]
Latvian President Valdis Zatlres has a rare quality: he never lies. At least, that is what he says.
RIGA (RIA Novosti) — Zatlres, 54, said at a meeting with music students that he has not told a lie to anybody for 30 years and that telling the truth is not difficult.
“It is like giving up smoking [...]
The Nord Stream project, to pipe gas from Siberia to Europe under the Baltic Sea, is absolutely reliable and environmentally safe, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
HELSINKI (RIA Novosti) – ”I am sure that Nord Stream will become an environmentally safe, reliable and continuous route for hydrocarbon supplies to Europe, enhancing the energy stability of [...]
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