Towards a Pro-European Russia and a Marshall Plan for Russia (after Putin) Lithuania is situated next to a complicated neighbourhood. Russia has been and will remain, for many years to come, the biggest threat to […]
French President Emmanuel Macron and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were among the leading figures attending the recent St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, at which they met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader traveled to Vienna this week to meet with Austria’s leadership. And media reports indicate that President Donald Trump is interested in hosting Putin in Washington in the near future. There almost seems to be a race in engaging with Putin, including in Lithuania. […]
The air strikes on Syria by the United States was a due response to the deadly chemical attacks, which the Western world blames on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, says Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Lithuania fully understands why the United States air strikes in Syria were necessary in response to chemical attacks, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius stated on Friday. […]
The idea of engaging in more dialogue with Russia is eagerly accepted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), is being pursued by the United States, is cultivated by the Chinese leadership, and has again become embraced by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East is not a problem just for Europe to solve, says US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Benjamin G. Ziff. […]
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. […]
The Syrian civil war, which started five years ago, has devastated the country, killing 270,000 people and displacing half of the population. Public Radio International, based in the United States, developed an application that simulates the scale of the damage in terms of any other country of your choice. […]
Russia’s decision to withdraw the majority of its forces from Syria, announced on Monday by Vladimir Putin, has analysts questioning what the rationale behind the move was. Was this practice for Putin before another attack in Ukraine or the Baltic states, or was it an even more crushing defeat than what the Soviet Union experienced in Afghanistan? […]
One month after Russia got itself involved into the Syrian war, there is little doubt that Moscow’s actions, aimed at soothing domestic delusions of grandeur, will only bring more chaos and destruction into the conflict, argues Vytautas Dumbliauskas, Associate Professor at Mykolas Romeris University. […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius took part in the European Union‘s (EU) Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 12 October, which focused on the situation in Syria and migration, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]
NATO should step up pressure on Russia to use its influence on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as well as to give a more resolute response to Moscow’s “testing” of the Alliance’s flank in the Baltics, UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said in an interview to The Wall Street Journal published on Wednesday. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, the patriarch of Lithuanian politics known for his tough anti-Russian stance, is uncompromisingly critical of how NATO countries have responded to Russia‘s recent incursions into Turkey‘s airspace. […]
Russia‘s recent involvement in the war in Syria will only worsen the plight of refugees who are making their way to Europe in thousands, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Chief advisor to the Lithuanian president on foreign policy, Renaldas Vaisbrodas, says that Russia is not fighting ISIS in Syria, but is instead supporting President Bashar al-Assad‘s regime, which, he says, contradicts the goals of the international coalition fighting ISIS. […]
Discussions about the refugee crisis and how to solve it has moved from the European Union to the United Nations General Assembly, where most national leaders spoke about settling the conflicts in Syria and Iraq and fighting international terrorism. Among the highlights were the speeches and meeting of the presidents of the United States and Russia. […]
Russia launched airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday in what it says is an effort to weaken ISIS. “The main question is what Russia is actually fighting in this case, since Russia’s enemy is not exactly the enemy identified by the West,” says analyst Linas Kojala of the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Vilnius. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is sceptical about Russia‘s airstrikes in Syria, saying that preliminary information suggests Moscow is not entirely honest when it says it is only targeting ISIS. […]
The West will not renounce its commitments to Ukraine in exchange for Russia‘s help in fighting the Islamic State, an adviser to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who’s attending UN events in New York, said on Tuesday. […]
The reported presence of Russian military forces in Syria is alarming and may further fuel the conflict, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s adviser. […]
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