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Opinion: Shale gas revolution. Will Lithuania be like US or Zambia?
Less than a decade ago many people were talking about how we will be running out of oil soon. Many politicians and experts were constantly spouting “peak oil”. Serious faces in reputable conferences were asserting that it was obvious that the world production of oil had peaked and would be decreasing. The few dissenters were called naive or “market fundamentalists”. […]
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Opinion: Would Kennedy say “I am a Catalonian” today?
In thinking about European values and ideals, I wish to address all Europeans and particularly their political leaders. I particularly am addressing high-ranking politicians in Norway, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. I hope to touch their conscience and their courage. […]
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Opinion: Hunting down propaganda in media fields
Since the beginning of war in Ukraine, the concept of propaganda has become a keyword in the agendas of Lithuanian politicians and the media. The ruling majority of the Seimas and the president (together with the right-wing groups in the opposition) are taking diametrically opposite positions in the political arena regarding to measures to fight propaganda. After the Seimas rejected the president’s amendment to the Law on Public Information, there is no shortage of forecasts about large-scale disasters in our information space. […]
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Opinion: Orientalism reanimated or colonial thinking in Western analysts’ comments on Ukraine
Over the last few months, pro-Russian commentators in many Western countries have been portraying the Ukrainian events using a mix of stereotypes that scarily resemble the rhetoric once typical of racist and imperialist ways of thinking. As a result of such stereotypes, Ukrainians (but also Georgians, Moldovans, Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians) have fallen victims to a new form of Orientalism, a distorted way of thinking that people in the West exhibit all too often when talking about other parts of the world. […]
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Opinion: Lithuania is high on savouring energy news tidbits
There has been such a big stream of great news in Lithuania’s energy sector lately that it can make one dizzy. […]
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Opinion: What do Russian probes in the Baltic portend?
Earlier this month (October 2014), Scandinavian, and especially Swedish, media have focused on Sweden’s apparently abortive efforts to locate what was allegedly a disabled Russian reconnaissance submarine off its shores near Stockholm. But beyond the glaring evidence of the degradation of Swedish military capabilities — a condition it shares with most if not all of Europe — there is a larger story here. […]
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Opinion: How Russia wages hybrid energy war against Lithuania
The hybrid war, tested in Ukraine, was a big surprise for some time even for defence experts. Now, it seems that this lesson has been learned – Lithuania is one of the first countries in NATO which started to form a rapid reaction force aimed at responding to the new military threats. […]
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Opinion: Lithuania’s timely euro adoption means it will make into first-speed Europe
The European Parliament voted on the European Commission on Wednesday. […]
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Opinion: What is Putin going to do next?
How should we evaluate the current phase of Russia’s war against Ukraine? Is Vladimir Putin content with the results of his invasion and is going to stop? Unfortunately, there are too many arguments that suggest it is just a short silence before the next storm. […]
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Opinion: American investors and Lithuanian communities in shale gas drama
One year ago, on 8 October 2013, US energy giant Chevron, which had won the competition for exploring and digging into Lithuania’s shale gas deposits, announced it was leaving the country. To this Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius responded: if you want to leave, then leave. The market is big, others will come. […]
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Opinion: Against Russia’s new military strategy, NATO wavers as Lithuania prepares
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on 15 October that she would push to limit Russian television broadcasts inside the country. The statement came only two days after Defence Minister Maj. Gen. Jonas Vytautas Žukas announced plans to form a new rapid reaction force in Lithuania. […]
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Opinion: Western moral laxity and Lithuanian integrity?
DELFI has recently published op-ed pieces by Laurynas Kasčiūnas and Vladimiras Laučius where they scold at the alleged laxity of the West and its relativism in politics. The accusations are rather grave and worth in-depth discussion.
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Opinion: Victory for Putin in Ukraine and against the West
The Russian president has scored a victory in Ukraine and against the West. Vladimir Putin has got more than he hoped for, and yet there’s still a lot more that he can win. The game has now become long-term and one in which the most important thing will be strategic patience. And it’s not clear if Russia has the upper here. […]
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Opinion: Russia’s attempts to discredit Lithuania internationally
Lithuania torpedoes all constructive international initiatives dedicated to solving the problems in Ukraine – such complaints are heard from the lips of the representatives of Russia with regards to our diplomats in the most influential international organization – the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). […]
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