Regional elections were held in parts of Russia on Sunday (September 13). All of Russia has found itself between Khabarovsk in the Far East, with relentless protests throughout the summer, and Belarus, with a real […]
The COVID-19 recession was widely expected to be the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression and much worse that the Great Recession of 2008-2009. It can still be, but recent economic data suggests […]
What has happened so far? Lukashenko lost the elections. He continues to try to remain in power by deploying the brutal and inhumane power of OMON and the military, pogroms and torture. By holding Sviatlana […]
The civic support event Freedom First. Go Belarus! is launching in Lithuania. Its main goal is to help the Belarusian people defend their legitimate right to freely create a democratic state starting now. “We must help […]
Everybody understands that an economic downturn will follow the pandemic. Economic forecasts that started as relatively mild ones now often turn towards apocalyptical. No one is surprised by the Bank of Lithuania‘s reevaluation of its […]
There are two lines of thinking among the politicians in the EU on relations with Russia. There have always been those who call for – maintaining, restarting, refreshing – a dialogue with the current leadership […]
This week the Council of Europe (CoE), the organization where some time ago I quite naively ran for the position of Secretary General, opted to pay a big price for its naivete – by returning […]
MP Andrius Kubilius and Reinhard Veser At the end of March 2019, when the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe declared that my nomination was not to be submitted for further consideration to […]
By Shen Zhifei, Chinese Ambassador to Lithuania At this fascinating time of lush green, China-EU relations have ushered in another “warm spring”. Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid fruitful visits to Italy, France and […]
Political investigations in Lithuania […]
the Lithuania Tribune On the occasion of the Centenary of the Restoration of the State of Lithuania and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, the Seimas acknowledged Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, First Deputy Chairman […]
This week has started with a seemingly surprising piece of news. Following a fairly unsuccessful election in the federal state of Hessen for her Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced […]
Towards a Pro-European Russia and a Marshall Plan for Russia (after Putin) Lithuania is situated next to a complicated neighbourhood. Russia has been and will remain, for many years to come, the biggest threat to […]
1. Democracies, both new and old, have been facing numerous challenges in the 21st century. Growing populist and authoritarian tendencies, on the one hand, and the abundance of oligarchical symptoms in young democracies, on the […]
1. Democracies, both new and old, have been facing numerous challenges in the 21st century. Growing populist and authoritarian tendencies, on the one hand, and the abundance of oligarchical symptoms in young democracies, on the […]
Mindaugas Puidokas, Karbauskis‘ ally and fellow party member, has sent a letter to the Secretary General and all the delegations of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly complaining against the recently-appointed President of the Assembly, Rasa Juknevičienė. […]
On 13 January 1991, 27 years ago, Lithuania stood up for freedom. Not only for its own. We defended the European future. But for the victory there and then, Lithuania and Europe would be very […]
As part of its article dedicated to the Marshal Plan for Ukraine, which was initiated by us, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail cites an article by Michael Carpenter, Adviser to former US Vice President Joe Biden, where he praises our initiative. I was thus impelled to get a hold of the entire article by Carpenter. The article was published in the final issue of Foreign Policy, one of the most influential magazines worldwide and one that is most widely read by foreign policy experts. […]
In 1947, following his return to Washington after the negotiations with Stalin and Molotov in Moscow, George Marshall, the famous US military leader and post-war Secretary of State, saw the need to promote economic recovery in Western Europe destroyed by war. This was seen as a stabilising factor and the only way to halt Stalin’s ambitions of expanding his political dominance to Western Europe. […]
On the 25th of March the European Union turns sixty. Congratulations are in order for the EU and for ourselves! […]
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