Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe PACE
Central/Eastern Europe

Seimas’ Speaker calls for terminating Russia’s membership of PACE

Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, Speaker of the Seimas, proposes that Russia be expelled from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the grounds that Russia has seriously breached the Statute of the Council of […]

Rasa Juknevičienė MEP
Opinion

Juknevičienė. The Kremlin has gone back to the plan of testing the West

Recently, our political family, the European People’s Party, held an assembly. I was invited to give a presentation on Russia and Ukraine, in which I gave my assessment. What is happening today on the eastern […]

Lithuanian Army Chief Valdemaras Rupšys. Photo MoD.
Defence

Army Chief on drills in Belarus and unprecedented number of Russian troops: different nature and different objectives

The large-scale joint Russian-Belarusian military drills that started on Thursday in Belarus are also taking place just 10 kilometres from the Lithuanian border. Lithuanian Armed Forces Commander Valdemaras Rupšys has assessed the risk of possible […]

Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko
Central/Eastern Europe

Assessing Lukashenko’s strategy: a plan to retire him instead of the gallows

While Belarusian dictator Aliaksandr Lukashenko threatens that the Baltic states will lose their statehood if the escalating tensions between the West and Russia and its ally Minsk escalate into war, political experts note that Belarus […]