Žygimantas Pavilionis
Opinion

An idea for Russia – can Lithuania present it?

Recently we have been looking for an Idea for Lithuania. However often they are created in a vacuum where it appears that Lithuania does not live surrounded by various friendly or unfriendly neighbours which have various interests. Those ideas, however good, do not include geopolitics and international relations, upon which the development of our state greatly depends. […]

In Eastern Ukraine
CORPORATE

Why do the current sanctions against Russia not stop the war in Ukraine?

Following the political changes that began in Ukraine in 2013, Russia has commenced a hybrid war, which culminated not only in the violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity but also in the annexation of Crimea as […]

Vytautas Landsbergis
CORPORATE

V. Landsbergis: being a president, just as a priest, requires a calling

“There are many who wish to be president, but very few who have a calling for it. It is a problem for wishes and calling to match. A calling is not ambition, it is suitability […]

UN peacekeepers in action
Opinion

Three suggestions to UN on how to prevent future atrocities

The names and places associated with the atrocities that stain the world’s recent history are only too well known: Guernica, Babi Yar, Sharpeville, Treblinka, Hiroshima, Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica and, more recently, Aleppo and Yemen, to name but a few. The memories of those who have suffered are as painful as the list is long in a joint article writes the Swedish Ambassador Maria Christina Lundqvist, and Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Viceminister Neris Germanas. […]

Visvaldas Matijošaitis, Gitanas Nausėda, Saulius Skvernelis
CORPORATE

Potential presidential candidates begin saying what voters want to hear

Potential candidates in the presidential election have begun talking about social segregation and strengthening the regions and this helps them draw attention, notes political scientist Tomas Janeliūnas and economist Romas Lazutka. “For now this is […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
CORPORATE

President: we already have to discuss a military Schengen

The Zapad exercise displayed that we have to already begin discussing simplified movement of military equipment among EU countries, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė told LRT Radio. According to her the so called military Schengen is […]