Eastern Europe Studies Centre

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Minsk agreement: Devil’s in the details

After 14 hours of tough talks, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have reached an agreement on what…

10 years ago
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Lithuanian expert: Minsk talks outcome might be bad or very bad

The outcome of the ongoing talks in Minsk might be "bad" or "very bad", says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, an analyst from…

10 years ago
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Ukraine peace talks: What are the goals and the stakes?

While Ukraine's government forces are fighting pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Donbass region, Western leaders are engaging in a tense…

10 years ago
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Andreas Umland: Putin created alternative reality for Russians

Russian people are living in an alternative reality created for them by President Vladimir Putin, one completely disconnected from the…

10 years ago

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s speech in Vilnius in full

Mikhail Khodorkovsky's speech in Vilnius last week drew considerable controversy, with some saying his suggestions of easing economic sanctions on…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Edward Lucas: Snow Meeting is Davos for people who know what is going on

The Snow Meeting is a highlight of the European security calendar. It is like Davos, except that it is smaller…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to identify with Putin II

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The…

10 years ago
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Opinion: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to identify with Putin

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The…

10 years ago
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Opinion: Is Mikhail Khodorkovsky the devil’s advocate? II

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized another big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The…

10 years ago
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Opinion: Is Mikhail Khodorkovsky the devil’s advocate?

The Merchants' Guild building on Gedimino Avenue in central Vilnius hosted a conference in late November 2013 which featured Ukraine's…

10 years ago
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Historian Andrey Zubov: Moment of truth is upon Russia

The source of current problems in Russia - and, by extension, perturbations in Central and Eastern Europe - is the…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Mikhail Khodorkovsky among guest speakers at forum in Lithuania

Snow Meeting, a traditional informal discussion club, organised by the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania since 2008, will be held on…

10 years ago
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Kremlinologist Lilia Shevtsova: Putin is a mediocre leader pushing his country to collapse

Lilia Shevtsova, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution, says that Vladimir Putin is a far cry from the shrewd…

10 years ago
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Putin’s Russia. Do traces of KGB, FSB and GRU lead to Islamic State?

Again, this article will not be related to the structure, clans, their interrelations, and KGB basis in Putin’s current regime.…

10 years ago
  • Defence

Many Russian spies are operating in Lithuania, expert says

A lot of Russian spies are operating in Lithuania, so it’s likely that the recently-detained Lithuanian Air Force officer worked…

10 years ago
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Putin’s Russia. Roots of today’s regime date back to KGB under Andropov

In the articles of Putin's Russia series I have repeatedly written about Yevgeny Primakov’s clan. I have described in detail…

10 years ago
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Big contradiction between Putin’s lines

President Vladimir Putin's end-of-the-year media conference left little space for interpretation about Russia's foreign policy in the face of looming…

10 years ago
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Putin’s Russia. Why it is worth to reconsider links between Kremlin and international terrorism

It was all over the world news when Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė publicly stated that Russia was a “terrorist country”.…

10 years ago
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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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Opinion: Time for EU to review security strategy

It is a paradox that European security strategy, prepared in 2003, names closer relations with Russia as one of the…

10 years ago