- What Lithuanian defense industry and policymakers can learn from Taiwan?
Taiwan’s defense industry (DI) can develop modern armaments that can deter a potential opponent and even aims to export them globally.
- Will women in 2031 still need to prove themselves where men never were bothered to do so?
Just face it: the world still sees a persistent gap in access to opportunities and decision-making power for women and men, meaning that women have fewer opportunities – all kinds of them.
- Without institutional support, Lithuanian trans teens struggle with taboo and prejudice
Experiences of transgender teens and children remain a taboo in Lithuania.
- Belarusians in Lithuania: not picky, but asking for more heart
Most of the Belarusians who fled to neighbouring Lithuania in the wake of the political tumult that ensued following the rigged presidential election last August have been in dire straits there – repressed and some even tortured.
- Estonia, a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in 2020-2021, already eyes membership in 2050-2051
Estonia has been in its second year as an elected non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
- A referendum that lumps poster child Estonia with Poland and Hungary
Estonia has been hailed for the last three decades as the child prodigy of Europe’s former communist countries.
- Why does Lithuania stand out as Belarus’ staunchest ally?
A pro-democracy Belarus could not have dreamt of a stauncher ally than Lithuania in its quest to get the word about the events out to the world and pave the way to the eventual deposing of the self-appointed President Alexander Lukashenko, whose improbable 80-percent victory in the rigged August 9 presidential election has triggered massive protests and crackdowns in the country.
- Latvian president accuses Russia of distorting history in UN General Assembly address
Address of the President of Latvia, Egils Levits, at the United Nations General Assembly general debate in New York on September 24: I am greatly honoured to address the United Nations General Assembly for the first time.
- Corebook: selling confidence in branding, not online brand book design tools
The Baltic Times is continuing to introduce young, smart and trail-blazing Baltic entrepreneurs.
- Ukraine’s Lithuania Ambassador: “We are not only strategic partners – we are strategically like-minded sworn brothers”
In the last decade, few countries have become so intricately intertwined with Lithuania as Ukraine, which after the historic Maidan in 2014 chose the European path of development, never looking back.
- Russia already dominates EU energy security – we cannot let them dominate the EU’s food security too
The coronavirus crisis has had unexpected consequences.
- Replacing the security guy with AI-powered video surveillance software – Luxriot
What Latvian can be found in a Ghanaian jail?
- Estonia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Urmas Reinsalu: “The glass is always half full”
Urmas Reinsalu, the current Estonian Foreign Minister, has been in Estonian government and politics for many years.
- BSF director Otto Tabuns: China is not alternative to Russia
The Baltic Times sat down before the outbreak of the coronavirus to speak to Otto Tabuns, the director of the Baltic Security Foundation (BSF) and a lecturer at the Riga Graduate School of Law, on topics encompassing international trade, law, cybersecurity, economic espionage and emergent technology, culture and religion in foreign policy.
- Iceland’s Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson: “I bulldozed Lithuania’s independence recognition quest”
As Lithuania is joyfully celebrating its 30th anniversary of Independence restoration, some people who in the 1990s played the first fiddle internationally in making Lithuania’s dream come true are now in the shadows, yet they have already entered the books of modern history.
- Signatory of Lithuania’s Independence Proclamation Act: “We’ve nearly become a European state!”
Lithuania celebrated on March 11 its 30th anniversary of the proclamation of independence.
- Estonian and Lithuanian intelligence services release their annual reports on national threats
Russia is actively militarizing its society to support the country's military ambitions and using constant reminders of the threat of war to distract from domestic problems, the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service says in its yearbook published on February 12.
- 2019 European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels: a more social Europe is a must
A record number of participants, including over 9,000 attendants, more than 1,000 speakers, more than 350 journalists from around Europe joined more than 300 sessions of the 2019 European Week of Regions and Cities, an annual four-day event where experts, academics and officials from region and city administrations across Europe met and exchanged best practices and information on regional and urban development.
- The persevering The Baltic Times hosts its sixth annual Gala dinner
With the year winding down, The Baltic Times, the Baltics’ longest running print publication, has remained loyal to its tradition of hosting the annual Gala dinner, expressing in that way its genuine gratitude to the diverse audience of its readers, most of whom come from local embassies, state institutions, business representations, chambers of commerce, stake-holders, senior, upper and top-level decision makers.
- Another one falls - ECB to shut down Latvian bank PNB
The Financial Capital and Market Commission in charge of Latvian banks has decided to halt the operations of PNB Banka to prevent the outflow of bank’s funds.