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Defence

Denmark and Lithuania reaffirm cooperation in defence

At a meeting on Tuesday in Copenhagen, Defence Policy Director of the Ministry of National Defence Vaidotas Urbelis and Defence Policy Director of the Ministry of Defence of Denmark Kristian Fisher underscored that both countries saw essential partners for defence cooperation in one another, the Lithuanian ministry said. […]

Zigmantas Balčytis
Opinion
Vytautas Dumbliauskas
Opinion

Opinion: What is Putin going to do next?

How should we evaluate the current phase of Russia’s war against Ukraine? Is Vladimir Putin content with the results of his invasion and is going to stop? Unfortunately, there are too many arguments that suggest it is just a short silence before the next storm. […]

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Politics

Lithuanian parliament passes amendment allowing EU citizens to run in municipal and EP elections

With 54 votes in favour, 3 against and 10 abstentions, Lithuania’s parliament approved draft amendments to the preamble to the Law on Political Parties, implementing the requirement laid down in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to guarantee citizens of the union who are not nationals of that state the right to stand as candidates in municipal elections and in elections to the European Parliament, the Seimas’ press service reports. […]

Vladimir Yevtushenkov
Uncategorized

The case of Yevtushenkov: One more look at Russia through the prism of clan battles

In the last essay of the series “Putin’s Russia”, I discussed the long efforts of Yevgeny Primakov’s clan to turn Ukraine’s conflict in the direction of conditional peace rather than war by imposing certain conditions and concluding everything with a peace agreement that is so useful to Russia. […]