Eastern Europe Studies Centre

Lithuanian experts outline three scenarios for Eastern Partnership

Experts from the Eastern Europe Studies Centre (EESC) presented the study "Eastern Partnership (EaP) in a Changing Security Environment: 'Muddling…

10 years ago
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Pro-Western forces won in Ukraine but oligarchs didn’t go away, Lithuanian analyst says

Pro-Western forces have won the general elections in Ukraine and they secured a stable majority necessary to push reforms. But…

10 years ago
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The case of Yevtushenkov: One more look at Russia through the prism of clan battles

In the last essay of the series “Putin’s Russia”, I discussed the long efforts of Yevgeny Primakov’s clan to turn…

10 years ago
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Putin backs down and… wins?

Russian forces are withdrawing from the Ukrainian border. Pro-Russian separatists are putting down their arms. There are reports about Russia…

10 years ago
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Opinion: Russia’s attempts to discredit Lithuania internationally

Lithuania torpedoes all constructive international initiatives dedicated to solving the problems in Ukraine - such complaints are heard from the…

10 years ago
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Primakov clan’s trap for the West or a little about Putin’s peace roadmap

In the last essay of the “Putin’s Russia” series we have reviewed the assumptions that suggest that namely Rogozin’s clan…

10 years ago
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What’s behind Russia’s peace plan for Ukraine?

Even the groups within Russia's ruling elite that used to advocate open war with Ukraine are warming up to the…

10 years ago
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Humanitarian mission to Ukraine

The history of the partisan resistance is an integral part of Lithuania’s resistance to Soviet-Russia’s aggression and still speaks to…

10 years ago
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Would Russia be a different country without Putin?

If Russian President Vladimir Putin were replaced by another politician in the Kremlin, Russia's foreign policy would not change, most…

10 years ago
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Opinion: Three reasons why Lithuania needs NATO bases on its soil

Paradoxically enough, it is during the term of the US president who thought Europe's security system a done deal and…

10 years ago
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Lithuanian political scientists don’t expect West providing military aid to Ukraine

Lithuanian political scientists say that Western countries probably will not provide broad military assistance to Ukraine even amid clear Russian…

10 years ago
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Russian invasion in Ukraine: The Kremlin has revealed its cards

Russia's armed forces invaded Ukraine from the coast of the Sea of Azov for a reason - in order to…

10 years ago
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Aggression in Ukraine: what consequences await its architects?

In the first article about Dmitry Rogozin’s clan, I discussed how this clan developed and gained strength. However, in the…

10 years ago
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Why Sikorski is more useful in Brussels than in Warsaw?

Now that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is mired in a phone-tapping scandal, political editors say that he could have…

11 years ago