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Baltic security in the age of Trump

The election of Donald J. Trump as US President on November 7, 2016 has brought a year of living dangerously for the Baltic States, as the region nervously awaited the arrival of a new Republican […]

Indrė Makaraitytė
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A. M. Brazauskas’ old guard and their true faces

What was and is the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party? A party, whose leader Gintautas Paluckas has just announced that with party veterans having withdrawn or being removed, an era has ended and his critics have […]

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Reinstating conscription in Lithuania: bringing society back into defence?

In 2015, with the security environment on NATO‘s eastern frontiers deteriorating as a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Lithuania made a rather sudden and dramatic decision to resume the mandatory military draft and thus […]

Lietuvos energija
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Which state owned companies need privatisation?

Certain state owned companies are overflowing with funds, cannot handle their appetites and fail to perform their core duties. This is what Seimas Commission of Energy chairman Virgilijus Poderys is convinced of. He states that […]