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Foreign affairs

Nausėda on the ban on tourist visas for Russians

President Gitanas Nausėda argues that the consequences of the Russian-led war in Ukraine must be felt not only by the country’s leader, Vladimir Putin, and therefore fully supports the proposal to ban the issuance of […]

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Foreign affairs

Russia’s influence behind the scenes in the European Union: Lithuania and pressure on transit

The European Commission (EC) is reconsidering the issue of transit to Kaliningrad because Russia has managed to “entangle” Lithuania behind the scenes in the European Union (EU) and to influence Community clerics, who in turn […]

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Central/Eastern Europe

Andrius Kubilius. Europe’s geopolitical crisis: causes, lessons, consequences

Russia’s war against Ukraine is a major geopolitical crisis for the entire European continent. It is the first such geopolitical crisis since the Second World War and since the creation of what we now call […]

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Central/Eastern Europe

What to do with Russia: the country that will remain on the map after the war in Ukraine?

During the Cold War, the Americans pursued a strategy of containment toward the Soviet Union to prevent any kind of Soviet expansion, whether militarily, economically or ideologically. Now, whatever the outcome of the Kremlin-induced war […]