International Relations and Political Science Institute (TSPMI) of Vilnius University (VU Archives

What Angela Merkel doesn’t say about NATO-Russia agreement

September 4, 2014 DELFI EN 0

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated on several occasions that stationing permanent NATO forces in Eastern Europe would be in breach of the 1997 NATO-Russia agreement. However, legal expert Erika Leonaitė, a lecturer at the International Relations and Political Science Institute of Vilnius University, says the reality is more complicated than that. […]

SGD plaukiojantis terminalas „Independence“, „Klaipėdos naftos“ nuotr.

Lithuania signs 5-year LNG supply deal with Statoil

August 21, 2014 BNS 0

Litgas, the gas trading arm of the state energy holding company Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy), and Norway’s Statoil signed a five-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply deal preliminary valued at 2.5 billion to 3 billion litas (EUR 725-870m). […]

Valdemar Tomaševski, Rolandas Paksas, Algirdas Butkevičius ir Viktoras Uspaskichas

Energy minister’s dismissal unlikely to split Lithuanian government, experts say

August 19, 2014 BNS 0

The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party might leave the ruling coalition following the dismissal of Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič but that would hardly have any impact on the government’s work, political scientists say. […]

Russia may take counter-sanctions against West

August 1, 2014 BNS 0

The Kremlin could apply counter-sanctions against the West in response to European Union (EU) and United States sanctions against Russia, say lecturers of the Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science. […]

Why Sikorski is more useful in Brussels than in Warsaw?

June 30, 2014 www.DELFI.lt 0

Now that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is mired in a phone-tapping scandal, political editors say that he could have been more beneficial in the European Union (EU) Foreign Policy chief post instead of in Polish Foreign Ministry […]

After Nausėda meeting with Budrys, the opposition retorts to the candidate’s “cooling off “

November 22, 2024 0

Kęstutis Budrys, the President’s Senior Adviser, who has been nominated for the post of Minister of foreign affairs, does not say whether he first discussed the possibility of taking up the post with President Gitanas […]

“No need to mince words”: an assessment of what Trump’s victory means for Lithuania

November 6, 2024 0

“We can shout very loudly, but it won’t change the position of the American people,” says Professor Tomas Janeliūnas, as the winner of the United States of America’s (USA) presidential election, which will almost certainly […]

Another year in the sovereign history of Kazakhstan

October 24, 2024 0

Republic Day has been celebrated in Kazakhstan as the main national date since 2022, giving new life to the fundamental document on state sovereignty—the Declaration of October 25, 1990. The Republic is a modern form […]

In the assessment of NATO’s readiness for war with Russia, there is also a warning about the Baltic states: what is the Kremlin’s wild card?

October 23, 2024 0

According to Lrytas.lt, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) faces a new geopolitical reality with the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. While the Alliance has begun responding to emerging threats, its readiness for […]

These parties will enter the Seimas for the third time in a row. How many votes did they lose, and how many did they gain?

October 15, 2024 0

As various parties emerge, disappear or reorganize themselves in the political space, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats – TS-LKD) and the Liberal Movement are making […]