Ramunas Bogdanas

  • Opinion

Opinion: EU defends itself by attacking

Recently, I was asked by radio journalist Aurimas Perednis what I thought about the issue of illegal migrants flooding the…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Kremlin’s ghost over Riga Summit (II)

The European Union launched its Eastern Partnership programme in 2009, soon after Russia's 2008 war on Georgia. It was proposed…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Kremlin’s ghost over Riga Summit (I)

The European Union launched its Eastern Partnership programme in 2009, soon after Russia's 2008 war on Georgia. It was proposed…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: The meaning of Victory Day in Russia

On 8 May, Lithuania is joining Europe in commemorating victory over Nazism. Russia celebrates its own Victory Day on 9…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Leader and democracy

Nobody takes much notice when the leader of any Western country stays out of the public eye for a period…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Putin’s party paid for by oil money (II)

On 26 March, fifteen years ago, Vladimir Putin was elected the president of Russia. The moment coincided with the start…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Putin’s party paid for by oil money (I)

On 26 March, fifteen years ago, Vladimir Putin was elected the president of Russia. The moment coincided with the start…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Whatever happened to our enemies of 25 years ago

Can we speak about our former enemies and talk to them, or shall we keep the distance, ignore and insist…

10 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Journalist Gregory Feifer: corruption is what provides stability for Russia’s regime

Lithuanian readers have been recently presented with a book by American journalist Gregory Feifer, Russians: The People behind the Power.…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Arvid Bryne, Norwegian journalist who helped organize first Lithuanian delegation to the West

Arvid Bryne is a well-known Norwegian journalist and author and one of the best friends Lithuania has in Norway. A…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to identify with Putin II

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to identify with Putin

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Is Mikhail Khodorkovsky the devil’s advocate? II

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized another big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Is Mikhail Khodorkovsky the devil’s advocate?

The Merchants' Guild building on Gedimino Avenue in central Vilnius hosted a conference in late November 2013 which featured Ukraine's…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: From rouble to euro

The first day of this year is the first day of Lithuania with the euro. It is an unavoidable fact,…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Beware of unwavering optimists

As the saying goes, a pessimist is just a well-informed optimist. Russia's president is able to get any kind of…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Brezhnevizing: the end of good times in Russia

In the ideological part of his annual address, Vladimir Putin explained how spiritual Russia was and that it would never…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Brezhnevizing: henceforth and forever

This year Vladimir Putin's annual address received particularly much attention: the leader of an aggressive state with declining economy was…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Marshall plan for Ukraine: What should be done a year after Maidan?

The new Ukrainian Government has been appointed one year after the Euromaidan revolution began in Kyiv. In November 2013, those…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: The importance of manners in the East

A small episode recently has shown that Russian President Vladimir Putin feels like he is a know-it-all who can ignore…

10 years ago