Jews, just as any nation are not monolithic. Jews in Lithuania have a history of some 700 years and many things have occurred during it, both good and bad and the repercussions of the Holocaust […]
Allusions to alleged Nazism of one’s opponent are characteristic to debates on values in Lithuania and beyond. “That’s what Hitler did!”, “That’s Nazi thinking!” – We often read in texts and hear on talk shows. […]
With the Seimas National Security and Defence Committee (NSGK) investigation into suspect political and business links nearing its conclusion, the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has spoken up on how the […]
The Seimas National Security and Defence Committee (NSGK) is finalising its conclusions in the investigation of business influence on politics. They are to be presented to the public with most names included on Wednesday. “The […]
1. Democracies, both new and old, have been facing numerous challenges in the 21st century. Growing populist and authoritarian tendencies, on the one hand, and the abundance of oligarchical symptoms in young democracies, on the […]
The governments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania face an increasingly large espionage threat from the Russian Federation. Naturally, this threat includes the introduction or recruitment of Russian agents to engage in classical espionage activities like ferreting out classified information from government sources. […]
Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) leader Ramūnas Karbauskis claims he has heard that the Seimas National Security and Defence Committee investigation over business and politicians’ links could also feature a former member of his […]
Centenary meeting, 26 March 2018, Geneva, Headquarters of the League of Nations The great war of thrones, which erupted and went on disastrously, and then allegedly ended a hundred years ago, did not result in […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė believes that law enforcement must carefully consider, what classified data to declassify and the Seimas committee must carefully consider its conclusions because this report will most likely play a role in the […]
With the investigation of illegal relations between politicians and business nearing its conclusion in the Seimas National Security and Defence Committee (NSGK), the atmosphere is turning red hot – opposition and majority investigators have spoken […]
For a few weeks now, the main attention of Lithuanian politicians and news media has been focused on the State Security Department (VSD) report on the illegal efforts by the MG Baltic group to influence […]
The threat of breaking up is looming over the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) Seimas group: some ten members may withdraw from it. Povilas Urbšys, who left the “Farmers” last week and could have […]
‘We are likely to run into the problem of ethnic discrimination while defining the notion of dual citizenship,’ claims Eglė Verseckaitė-Grzeskowiak, Senior Lecturer at ISM University of Management and Economics, in her interview to the […]
Already after the Liberal Movement (LS) chairman elections it was only left to wonder, what could be expected next. The election of old-new chairman Eugenijus Gentvilas raised many doubts over the party’s ability to perform […]
Gitanas Nausėda retains the lead in the top three highest rated presidential candidates, with Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis taking respectively second and third place. This is based on an April […]
Several last weeks with the e-mails from Eligijus Masiulis, former Liberal Movement Party leader and who is currently under criminal investigation, a scandal of e-mails from Ms. President with a „tulip“ pseudonym, hidden political influences from the MG Baltic corporation and leaked files from the State Security Department about politico-business relations at least partially opened the curtain of the backstage „kitchen“ of Lithuanian politics. Although it was not a big surprise to the insiders of national politics that instead of kitchen of politics we might be brought suddenly to the Augean stables. And exactly this has happened. A smell and picture here are far from nice. […]
Danske Bank Group announced that it is stopping onboarding new local customers in Lithuania and plans to exit from serving local business and private banking customers. Although it was announced that it means no immediate changes for current local customers, customers are free to look for other banking services. […]
In recent years, there has been a heated debated in our political community on whether the European Union is destroying our identity or whether we have to resist the ‘decisions of Brussels’. In the meantime, […]
The MG Baltic scandal arose at the right time and the right place. The ten years of intelligence data was published specifically on the day when high state officials had to decide how to respond […]
There’s not much intelligence in the country. In the Seimas in general there is a constant struggle over intelligence. This is especially well revealed by crises, Rimvydas Valatka writes on lrt.lt. Lithuania has been bogged […]
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