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- UniCredit expands cash-management offer in Eastern Europe
As of June 2008, the corporate customer division of the UniCredit Group - UniCredit Corporate Division - offers its corporate customers in the three Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia cash pooling and zero balancing in euro. As such,
- Russia, US in deadlock over missile shield
Toyako (Japan), July 7 (RIA Novosti) Russia has told the US that Washington's plan to set up a missile base in Lithuania would be 'absolutely unacceptable' to Moscow. The Russian view was conveyed by President Dmitry Medvedev to his US counterpart George
- Medvedev firm against US missile shield in Lithuania
.President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev finds locating US interceptor missiles in Lithuania unacceptable, President's Aide Sergei Prikhodko quoted him as saying during his talks with US President George Bush. According to Prikhodnko, Dmitry Medvedev said he
- Lithuanian Sites Hacked by Russians
; Web Host 3FN Names HR Director Verisign CEO Resigns Suddenly>> July 7, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Lithuania's recent ban of Soviet symbols including the hammer and sickle and the five-pointed star has prompted Pro-Russian Soviet Symbol
- Medvedev rejects Bush's missile base plans (ABC)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has told US President George W Bush that Moscow will not accept plans for America to place part of its controversial missile defence shield in Lithuania. The two leaders talked about the issue on the sidelines of the G8
- Lithuanians differ on EU-Russia...
VILNIUS - Lithuanians differ in their judgment of the country's stance on EU talks with Russia, with 26 percent justifying Vilnius' actions and 29 percent of the polled saying this decision was off. Nevertheless, most polled inhabitants (32 percent) said
- Medvedev tells Bush missile shield in Lithuania 'unacceptable'
US President George W. Bush (right) shares a laugh with Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev during a bilateral meeting in Toyako, Japan, July 7 during the G8 Summit. Medvedev told Bush that locating part of a missile defence shield in Lithuania was
- Lithuania hit by pro-Soviet hacking attack
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service A vulnerability in a web server contributed to attacks on some 300 websites in Lithuania earlier this week, a computer security expert said on Friday. The websites were defaced after Lithuania passed a law prohibiting the
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Independent between the two World Wars, Lithuania was annexed by the USSR in 1940. In March of 1990, Lithuania became the first of the Soviet republics to declare its independence, but this proclamation was not generally recognized until September of 1991 (following the abortive coup in Moscow). The last Russian troops withdrew in 1993. Lithuania subsequently has restructured its economy for eventual integration into Western European institutions.
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AFP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told US President George W. Bush on Monday that locating part of a missile defence shield in Lithuania was "absolutely unacceptable," a Russian official said.
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