Lukashenko’s fortunes have changed. Once known as “Europe’s last dictator,” he has won friends in Europe, while antagonizing his traditional ally, Russia. It’s a situation that has left the Kremlin in a difficult positon: should it punish Belarus for its pro-Western tendencies? Or should it continue to prop up the Belarusian economy rather than risk further unrest in the region? […]
Each Russian leader picks a subject he is an expert in and Vladimir Putin‘s subject is history. “That is why in order to understand Russia, we must understand Russian history,” says Professor Nina Khrushcheva of the New School University in New York. […]
On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift. […]
As Belarus seeks to resume talks over membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Lithuania has said it is willing to help with advice and technical assistance. […]
Azerbaijan‘s Ambassador to Lithuania Hasan Mammadzada says that the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed Armenian-dominated region, is comparable to the occupation of the Vilnius region which was ruled by Poland in the interwar period. […]
The clashes between Azeri and Armenian troops in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, could lead to a wider conflict, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is among national leaders with offshore wealth, a report by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) as part of huge tax leak dubbed “Panama Papers” revealed Monday. […]
A Lithuanian needs to spend nearly 80% of the average wage to rent a one-room apartment in the centre of Vilnius, much higher than the proportion that people in other Baltic States have to spend. […]
The leader of a Donetsk separatist military group, Eastern Front, Eduard Akopov is married to a Lithuanian and had a permanent residence permit in Lithuania, according to the State Security Department (VSD). […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that the war in Syria cost Russia 33 billion Rubles (or €430 million) but it may also generate billions of euros in arms sales for Russia. […]
The tragic FlyDubai crash in Rostov-on-Don in Russia last Saturday that killed all 62 people on board may have been caused by a sudden gust of wind but the main factor may have been the company’s policy to punish pilots for diverting, said Kęstutis Zagreckas, a freelance pilot and flight instructor. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) ambassador to Moscow, Lithuanian diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas, has said he expects the Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who has been sentenced to 22 years in prison by a Russian court, to be soon released to Ukraine. […]
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has been sentenced to 22 years in jail by a Russian court which found her guilty of of charges relating to the deaths of two Russian journalists. […]
The trial of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko in Russia is “nothing but farce”, says the Lithuanian president’s advisor. […]
A Russian court passed a guilty verdict for Ukrainian armed force pilot Nadiya Savchenko in a case Lithuania regards as unlawful. […]
A campaign video by US presidential candidate Donald Trump has elicited comment from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The ad, attacking Trump’s presumptive opponent Hillary Clinton and featuring Putin performing a martial arts move, is a “demonization of Russia“, according to a statement from the Kremlin. […]
The Western political establishment is hostile to Russia. This makes it all the more important to demonstrate that the Western religious establishment is more sympathetic. Regardless of Putin’s aims, the meeting between Pope and Patriarch has become a landmark event in the history of Christianity. […]
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