Davosas 2015
Central/Eastern Europe

Mečys Laurinkus. What is the message behind Kissinger’s words?

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, one of the most influential politicians and geopoliticians in the US, Kissinger, said of the war in Ukraine: “Negotiations must begin within the next two months before there […]

Andrius Kubilius. Photo Seimas
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 […]

State Security Department headquarters
Defence

Intelligence assesses a brand new threat in Lithuania: known names of dozens of people

After the State Security Department (DSS) explicitly identified the threat of possible terrorist attacks by far-right groups in the near future for the first time this year, experts consider that the intelligence services would not […]

Vladimir Putin
Central/Eastern Europe

Neither a declared victory nor a mobilisation: assessing the message the Russians heard in Putin’s speech

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s traditional speech in Moscow’s Red Square on the occasion of the so-called Victory Day, which was full of speculations and predictions, finally turned out to be a regular Kremlin propaganda-laden message: […]