VILNIUS — Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė is set to meet Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Wednesday evening in conjunction with the Baltic Sea Action Summit.

Putin offered the one-on-one invitation to Grybauskaitė. Over the past few years Lithuania has stood in the way of further talks cooperation Russia and the EU, citing Russia’s presence in Georgia as a reason. Already less-than harmonious relations between the former Soviet republics were strained last month after the Lithuanian parliament passed a resolution asking the Lithuanian government to press Russia to compensate the families of those killed or injured by Soviet soldiers in the Jan. 13, 1991 events in Vilnius.

Russia dismissed the resolution.

“The document is explicitly politicized and unfortunately indicates that a significant part of the Lithuanian MPs continue to live phobias of the past and are clearly not interested in remedying bilateral relations,” Andrei Nesterenko, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the press.

In addition to diplomatic relations, sure to be on the topic of Wednesday’s meeting is the Nord Stream oil pipeline, which Lithuania considers an environmental threat and the disruption of food products trade between the countries as Russia has sometimes barred the import of certain items.

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