Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia was ready to deploy missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave, which borders EU member states Poland and Lithuania, to offset the threat from a planned US missile shield in Europe.
MEDIA WATCH FRANCE, Tue. 6/9/11: a former news editor at the Libération newspaper reflects on 9/11 as a seminal moment for web journalists; plus what just might be the most controversial photo of the terror attacks; and why a French basketball reporter has put Lithuania's nose out of joint.
A Lithuanian military jet has crashed after colliding midair with a French NATO plane, which managed to make an emergency landing, Lithuanian officials say. The two pilots in the Lithuanian aircraft ejected before the crash.
MEDIAWATCH, Tues. 2nd August 2011: The mayor of Vilnius finds a novel way to dissuade parking on bike lanes: crushing a Mercedes Benz by driving over it in a tank! First though, The Guardian reports on another arrest in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal; and writers and filmmakers cited by Anders Behring Breivik speak to the press.
As Silvio Berlusconi's immunity shield is dented, prosecutors investigate whether he paid for sex with an underage Moroccan girl.
Foreign parents wrestle with the German courts who favour custody rights for their own citizens in cross-border divorces. And finally, "too old" for telly at 53, a female presenter wins her case against the broadcaster that swapped her for a younger model.
In this special edition on Eastern Europe: the fight against corruption in Bulgaria; Ukraine's communist past; a garden with Stalinist statues in Lithuania; and a Bulgarian minister who is also a sculptor.
