China
Foreign affairs

After Beijing’s scandalous statement, an unexpected verdict: should Russia be worried too?

Russia should also be alarmed by Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye’s statement that the states that were part of the USSR do not have an “effective legal status in international law”, believes former Minister […]

Kremlin's web
Defence

Intelligence is worried: there will be no more silence around Lithuania

Although Russia has failed to defeat Ukraine quickly, this totalitarian and Soviet-like state is capable of continuing the war in Ukraine for at least 2 more years while at the same time determined to build […]

Defence

Let’s take off the rose-tinted glasses before the Vilnius NATO summit: we are vulnerable

Lithuania will host the NATO summit this summer, but many issues remain unresolved, with six months to go until mid-Summer. Vilnius will be hot, not only because of the summer and July weather but also […]

RUS

Литва готовится к огромной волне беженцев из Украины

Хотя украинцы, бежавшие в Литву с начала войны, уже составляют более 2% населения страны, прогнозируется, что вскоре число беженцев войны может значительно увеличиться. К этому уже готовятся не только власти, но и волонтеры, которые все […]

Central/Eastern Europe

Polish-German dislike: why don’t Poles believe Germans?

In December 2021, Germany’s new Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, stopped in Warsaw on her inauguration tour and met her Polish counterpart, Zbigniew Rau. Before the minister’s visit, tensions were already high between Poland’s ruling Law […]