Vytaute Merkyte, Author at the Lithuania Tribune

Lithuania’s Christmas tree competition: choose the nicest

December 18, 2018 Vytaute Merkyte 0

They say that the grass is always greener on the other side. What about Christmas trees? This time, Delfi invites you to elect the nicest Christmas tree. The candidates are not the ubiquitous Christmas trees of the large cities, it is instead time for the smaller Lithuanian towns to take to the stage. […]

Saulius Skvernelis, Gitanas Nausėda and Visvaldas Matijošaitis

Presidential elections: the three main candidates have reasons to stay silent

August 16, 2018 Vytaute Merkyte 0

With less than a year to go to the presidential elections, individuals, who have yet to declare their intent to become the head of state remain the most popular candidates. Political scientists and sociologists state […]

How to launch a European Lend-Lease

November 22, 2022 0

Considering the total nature and prospects of hostilities in Ukraine, military aid for us should not be situational but permanent. Since the full-scale Russian aggression began, Ukraine has been working to launch arms lend-lease with […]

After a missile explosion in Poland – no illusions about NATO’s response, but one small twist is possible

November 17, 2022 0

It is highly likely that the rocket that exploded in Poland near the Ukrainian border and killed two people was fired by the Ukrainian armed forces to shoot down one of the Russian missiles. The […]

The 60 days of Tehran

November 17, 2022 0

It is not impossible. It is by no means out of the question that November 2022 will go down in history as the month of freedom that would have seen Iran begin the fall of […]

From the Baltic to the Black Sea or how to build a European shield

November 15, 2022 0

There has been much talk recently about the European prospects of Ukraine and Moldova in the context of the European institutions’ decision to grant the status of candidate countries for EU accession. Undoubtedly, it is […]

HIMARS for Lithuania: military experts’ verdict on this news

November 15, 2022 0

Lithuania purchase of eight HIMARS missile artillery systems is one of the essential steps in the country’s history, which will raise the country’s army to an entirely new level, according to military experts interviewed by […]