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Lithuania’s defence industry gears up for exports
The more than 500 companies that belong to the Lithuanian Defence and Security Association show that Lithuania can manufacture more than agricultural products. […]
Energy
Can Nord Stream 2 be stopped?
Nord Stream 2, the controversial Russian-German pipeline project, is generating fierce opposition in Central and Eastern Europe as well as from the European Parliament and the European Commission. But could the opponents of the pipeline, owned 50% by Gazprom and 50% by some of the largest Western European companies, stop the project? […]
Defence
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Drastic changes needed in Lithuanian armed forces
After years of under-investment, a once-comatose Lithuanian army must now learn to walk again, and do so quickly, say high-ranking officials. […]
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Witchcraft, holy trees and Lithuania’s last pagans
Lithuanians, the last pagans of Europe, took their time to fully embrace Christianity in their daily lives and mixed it with older pagan rites. The religious sensibilities of Lithuanian peasants in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries is a topic of a new study by historian Vytautas Ališauskas. […]
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How Lithuania’s political landscape has changed
Lithuania’s political landscape has changed radically since the last time voters went to the polls with a variety of different factors transforming the political currents in the country. […]
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What do Russian provocations in Baltic signal?
The US European Command said last weekend that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet “performed erratic and aggressive maneuvers”, flying within 50 feet of an American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea. […]
Opinion
Unfreezing the status quo in the Caucasus
The warring parties in the Karabakh conflict, especially the Azerbaijani side, have decided to shake the status quo in the Caucasus. Violence could recur at any time and the latest fighting clearly demonstrates that the combined goodwill and cooperation of Moscow and Washington is no longer sufficient. […]
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Why Lithuania’s tax system is increasing inequality
Lithuania’s taxation system is conducive to social inequality with a disproportionate burden falling on labour income, and taxes on capital half that of the European Union average, according to leading economists. […]
European Union
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Was Gagarin’s flight really the climax of US-Soviet space race?
This week 55 years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first man to journey into outer space. A landmark in the history of human exploration, it was also a feat in the political rivalry between the two super powers of the time. […]
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National security threats report is itself a threat to Lithuania’s national security: Opinion
The latest annual report from the State Security Department (VSD), which contains a number of proposals to limit free speech, shows that siege mentality and remnants of Soviet thinking are still widespread in Lithuania. […]
Opinion
Opinion: How the Kremlin infiltrated an EU referendum in the Netherlands
The student leaders of 1968 could probably not have imagined how their democratic ideas would be high-jacked by a combination of extremists and opponents of democracy exploiting technological progress and social media. Nobody understands the dangers of technology and social media better than dictators and demagogues. […]
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The story of the refugee who captured Lithuania’s imagination
Local interpreters who worked with NATO troops in Afghanistan knew they were risking their lives and the compensation many of them received turned out to be inadequate, especially after the Alliance pulled out. […]
Opinion
Are Lithuanian businesses ready for corporate social responsibility?
Over the past decade, more and more profit-seeking companies have been maintaining that they are sharing value not only with their shareholders, but also with national or local communities, thus trying to jump on the bandwagon of the so-called corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement. […]
Opinion
Revealing Russia’s offshore addiction
The Panama Papers cannot do much damage to the reputation of Putin and his friends, and they have not exposed criminal activity by prominent Russians. But they shed light on a fundamental problem: not even elites trust Russia’s economic, legal, or political system. […]
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