Former Lithuanian prime-minister Andrius Kubilius, MEP and Standing Rapporteur on Russia, has started the year with the publication of a very detailed article about what he calls “’Russian’ psychological complexes”. He says that Europeans and […]
The fifth Vilnius Russia Forum will be held in the Lithuanian southern town of Trakai on 24-25 May, bringing together more than 100 politicians, civil society representatives, human rights defenders, academicians, journalists from Russia, Lithuania, and other Western countries. They will discuss the situation in Russia after President Vladimir Putin‘s re-election. […]
The traditional Free Russia Forum is opening in Vilnius on Wednesday, serving as a platform for the country’s politicians and public figures to discuss the political situation in Russia. […]
The Russian presidential election will take place in a month, but the winner is already clear. The only candidate capable of receiving wider support from voters, Alexey Navalny, has been banned from registering as a candidate due to his criminal record, stemming from a fraud conviction he views as illegitimate. Accordingly, the question now is not about what kind of elections these will be, but what they will mean for Vladimir Putin’s fourth term. In other words, what will the Putin 4.0 system look like? What challenges will it face? […]
Vilnius hosted a two-day annual Free Russia Forum organized by the team of Russian chess legend and opposition activist Garry Kasparov. […]
Belarus could be the next country targeted by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin after Ukraine, Russian opposition figure Gary Kasparov, former world chess champion currently residing in the US, has said at a Vilnius conference. […]
Russian public and opposition figures who took part in the Free Russia Forum in Vilnius said that Russia needed new opposition forces, as its society has turned its back on the currently divided political forces that oppose the Kremlin. […]
A Free Russia Forum is starting in Vilnius on Friday, the second event of the series this year. It will focus on Russia’s main problems, bringing together Russia’s prominent opposition activists and human rights defenders. […]
The Russian parliamentary (Duma) elections on September 18 do not promise any major changes. Opinion polls and the general atmosphere show that the country will continue to be led by the United Russia party which is affiliated with Vladimir Putin, while establishment opposition parties will support stability. Regardless, these elections will be significant in understanding the future of the long term, but little understood system of Vladimir Putin’s that has been in place for sixteen years. There are indicators suggesting that the role of the real opposition, despite its fragmentation, is gradually changing. Considering the delicate socioeconomic situation of the country and the presidential elections which are two years away, this makes for certain indications for the future. Thus what role does the opposition perform in the contemporary Russia? […]
Putin has already done everything that Western observers had previously said he wouldn’t dare and if he’s still in power in five years, the world is in deep trouble, according to Russian opposition figure Garry Kasparov. […]
The Lithuanian Chess Federation has decided to support Garry Kasparov, a Russian player with links to Moscow’s opposition, rather than Kremlin-supported Kirsan Ilyumzhinov for the president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). […]
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