Russian gas

More than two thirds of people in Lithuania are satisfied with the government's response to Russia's war in Ukraine, according to a Eurobarameter survey published last week.

Buying Russian gas and oil amid the ongoing war in Ukraine is immoral, says Asta Skaisgiryte, chief adviser on foreign policy issues to the Lithuanian president.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says he is disappointed over the EU's failure to include the oil industry into its new package of sanctions for Russia.

Seeking full energy independence from Russian gas and in response to Russia's energy blackmail in Europe and the war in Ukraine, Lithuania has completely given up Russian gas, the Lithuanian Energy Ministry says.

The Baltic states' joint boycott of electricity from the Astravyets nuclear power plant will cost Belarus "hundreds of millions of euros" in lost revenue annually, Lithuanian Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas has said.

An advisor to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says the Klaipeda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal should not be used for Russian gas imports in the long term.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says he has received assurances from Germany's leaders that sanctions against Russia will remain in place until Moscow stops its aggressive behavior in Ukraine.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda is leaving for an official visit to Germany on Wednesday. BNS Lithuania presents the visit's five key topics.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with the Presidents of Latvia and Estonia met with the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, informs press service of the President.

The chief financial officer of Novatek, Russia's largest private gas company, says the company operates transparently and is reliable and known to Lithuanian companies and some of them have already imported gas from the Vysotsk LNG terminal in the Baltic Sea.

Lithuania has so far failed to find Gazprom's assets from which it could recover a 42-million-euro anti-trust fine that was slapped on the Russian gas giant almost five years ago.

A four-year-long dispute between the Lithuanian government and Russia‘s gas company Gazprom over €1.4 billion sought by Lithuania at Stockholm arbitration court over overcharging for gas supplies has ended in failure of both parties to prove the validity of their claims. To read this article, try a ...

Estonia’s electricity and gas company Elering paid Russian exporter Gazprom an average €13.50/MWh in April, while, the average gas price on the Lithuanian GET Baltic Gas Exchange in April was €16.41/MWh, naturalgaseurope.com reports.

Refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East is not a problem just for Europe to solve, says US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Benjamin G. Ziff.

Lithuania has cut its dependence on Russian natural gas by 63.2% in the first quarter of 2016 as new supply contracts with Norway’s Statoil came into effect.

Economic reform is central for today’s Ukraine. The capacity of the Ukrainian nation—leadership and population together—to deliver a modern and efficient economy, if achieved, would constitute the winning asset in the West’s current struggle with Russia in Eastern Europe.

Nord Stream 2, the controversial Russian-German pipeline project, is generating fierce opposition in Central and Eastern Europe as well as from the European Parliament and the European Commission. But could the opponents of the pipeline, owned 50% by Gazprom and 50% by some of the largest Western Eu...

Russian OMRP Spetsnaz units may have landed on the coast of Juodkrantė two years ago. This suggestion by the chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee Artūras Paulauskas, has caused considerable turmoil and concern.