TALLINN - Representative organizations of farmers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have sent a public missive to the heads of the European Union's institutions calling for fair distribution of direct support allocated in the union's framework of common agricultural policy. A demonstration seeking fair competitive conditions on the European common market is also to take place in Brussels on Thursday.   "The initial historical re...

TALLINN - The UK is planning to hold an amphibious landing exercise on the coast of Estonia next summer, combining for the first time the actions of the Navy, the Air Force ad the Army in this region, the news portal of public broadcaster ERR reported Friday evening.  The UK, lead nation of the NATO multinational battalion battle group in Estonia, is also planning to rehearse cooperation between  different services of the armed forces more broadly and increas...

TALLINN - At the 25th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE Ministerial Council) on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized Ukraine and several Western countries, as well as Estonia and Latvia in various spheres. "In the EU countries Latvia and Estonia, the shameful phenomenon of statelessness remains," Lavrov said according to remarks published in Russian on the ...

VILNIUS – Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, currently on a visit to Kiev, on Friday promised that Lithuania would send ammunition to Ukraine and also more army instructors to train local forces. Lithuania will also send cyber security experts to help withstand hybrid attacks, especially during the upcoming presidential and general elections next year. "We have decided to provide military assistance immediately in the form of ammunition, ...