Crimea

  • Opinion

Marshall plan for Ukraine: What should be done a year after Maidan?

The new Ukrainian Government has been appointed one year after the Euromaidan revolution began in Kyiv. In November 2013, those…

10 years ago
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One year after Vilnius summit: Times of “limited sovereignty” coming back?

"Europe had been waiting for an engagement party for two years but it was called off a week before," German…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Why Russia’s threat to Baltic states is so real

Professor Kęstutis Girnius has once again decided on DELFI to calm everyone down by saying there is no real danger…

10 years ago
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Sanctions not aimed at ordinary Russian citizens, says EU Ambassador Ušackas

The European Union's sanctions are not aimed at ordinary Russian citizens, and Europe is committed to further invest in people-to-people…

10 years ago
  • European Union

EP president’s adviser Pranckevičius: Russia is building a coalition against free world

Arnoldas Pranckevičius, adviser to the president of the European Parliament, says that while the European Union might seem slow and…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: What is next in the line for independence? Exclude Kaliningrad, please

The tide of plebiscites for independence is rolling across Europe. You name it: Scotland, Crimea, Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk and…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: The importance of manners in the East

A small episode recently has shown that Russian President Vladimir Putin feels like he is a know-it-all who can ignore…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Are Baltic states in danger?

The situation is Ukraine has gotten more ominous. Additional armed Russian troops have entered the country's territory a week ago,…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: The deathly risks of doing business with Russia

In the evening of 20 October 2014, the first snow fell in Moscow. CEO of one of the world's biggest…

10 years ago
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Tensions in Ukraine: Is Putin planning a major offensive?

As military clashes between Ukraine's government forces and pro-Russian separatist fighters in the country's eastern regions intensify, Lithuanian political scientist…

10 years ago

Russian political scientist says Baltic states should fear for their existence

Sweden has nothing to fear from Russia, while Estonia and Latvia should not get too comfortable, says Russian political scientist…

10 years ago
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Historian Timothy Snyder: Ukrainian crisis is not about Ukraine, it’s about Europe

Events in Ukraine have no effect on what Russia does or says, because its propaganda is not based on reality…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: What Lithuanians do and don’t know about Russia and Ukraine

The criticism levied at the Lithuanian media by EU Ambassador to Moscow Mr. Vygaudas Ušackas, who said that reporting on…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Will the Baltic states rise to the challenges to their own security?

Russia’s attacks on Georgia and Ukraine in the last decade have brought to the forefront sharp diversities of opinion within…

10 years ago
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The Russian Arctic: Between economic development and accelerating militarization

Lately, hardly a day passes without another announcement of a new Russian military deployment in the Arctic. Yet, the Arctic’s…

10 years ago
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Why the West will eventually make up with Russia on Putin’s terms

Six years ago, when Russia attacked Georgia and tore off the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Western countries…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

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…

10 years ago
  • European Union

Lithuanian ambassador: Nobody in EU suggests softening Russian sanctions

All member states and institutions of the European Union are in favour of continuing with the existing sanctions on Russia…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

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…

10 years ago
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Andrey Piontkovsky: Putin plans to play poker, not chess

Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to blackmail the West with a nuclear weapon. So says Russian policy expert Andrey Piontkovsky.…

10 years ago