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Vladimiras Putinas, Francois Hollande'as, Petro Porošenka, Angela Merkel

Minsk agreement: Devil’s in the details

February 12, 2015 Egle Samoskaite 0

After 14 hours of tough talks, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have reached an agreement on what to do about situation in eastern Ukraine, where hostilities have already claimed over 5,400 lives. However, the leaders did not hold a customary joint press conference. […]

Vladimiras Putinas, Francois Hollande'as, Angela Merkel, Petro Porošenka

Lithuanian expert: Minsk talks outcome might be bad or very bad

February 12, 2015 BNS 0

The outcome of the ongoing talks in Minsk might be “bad” or “very bad”, says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, an analyst from the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre, commenting on the talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine that continue in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Thursday. […]

Angela Merkel, Vladimiras Putinas, Francois Hollande'as

Ukraine peace talks: What are the goals and the stakes?

February 10, 2015 DELFI EN 0

While Ukraine‘s government forces are fighting pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Donbass region, Western leaders are engaging in a tense diplomacy game with Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]

Andreas Umland: Putin created alternative reality for Russians

January 28, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Russian people are living in an alternative reality created for them by President Vladimir Putin, one completely disconnected from the rest of the world, says German political scientist Andreas Umland, senior research fellow, at Kyiv-based Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation. […]

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s speech in Vilnius in full

January 23, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Mikhail Khodorkovsky‘s speech in Vilnius last week drew considerable controversy, with some saying his suggestions of easing economic sanctions on Russia played right into Vladimir Putin‘s interests, while others noting Khodorkovsky’s sober and measured reasoning. The following is a full transcript of Khodorkovsky’s address, translated from Russian by Katerina Sinkevičienė. […]

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

January 22, 2015 Edward Lucas 0

The Snow Meeting is a highlight of the European security calendar. It is like Davos, except that it is smaller and full of people who really know what is going on (Davos is full of people who would like to know what is going on). […]

Opinion: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to identify with Putin II

January 22, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. […]

Opinion: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to identify with Putin

January 21, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. […]

Leonidas Donskis and Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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

January 20, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized another big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by none other than Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He was introduced by liberal Lithuanian thinker Leonidas Donskis who had taken great interest in supporting the prisoner during his term as a member of the European Parliament and had even received Khodorkovsky’s thank-you letter from prison. The prisoner had written he was touched by Donskis’ belief that he was fated for an important role in the history and politics of Russia. […]

Opinion: Is Mikhail Khodorkovsky the devil’s advocate?

January 19, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

The Merchants’ Guild building on Gedimino Avenue in central Vilnius hosted a conference in late November 2013 which featured Ukraine‘s opposition players. […]

Historian Andrey Zubov: Moment of truth is upon Russia

January 15, 2015 DELFI EN 0

The source of current problems in Russia – and, by extension, perturbations in Central and Eastern Europe – is the fact that the Russian society failed to cut all ties with the soviet past back in the 1990s, says Russian historian Andrey Zubov. […]

Mikhail Khodorkovsky among guest speakers at forum in Lithuania

January 13, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Snow Meeting, a traditional informal discussion club, organised by the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania since 2008, will be held on 15-16 January in Trakai and Vilnius, the ministry said in a press release. […]

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

January 12, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Lilia Shevtsova, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution, says that Vladimir Putin is a far cry from the shrewd and effective leader everyone, friends and foes alike, take him to be. On the contrary, she says, the Russian president is a shallow mediocrity who has not got a clue how to avert his country’s imminent collapse. […]

V.Putinas, A.Duginas, H.Džemalis, D.Umarovas ir Š.Basajevas

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

January 9, 2015 Rytu Europos studiju centras ir DELFI 0

Again, this article will not be related to the structure, clans, their interrelations, and KGB basis in Putin’s current regime. This essay is a sequel of the previous piece which aimed to take another glimpse at Putin’s suspicious links with international terrorism. […]

Many Russian spies are operating in Lithuania, expert says

December 31, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

A lot of Russian spies are operating in Lithuania, so it’s likely that the recently-detained Lithuanian Air Force officer worked for Moscow, says Marius Laurinavičius, an analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre. […]

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

December 24, 2014 Rytu Europos studiju centras 0

In the articles of Putin’s Russia series I have repeatedly written about Yevgeny Primakov’s clan. I have described in detail the ongoing battle regarding the implementation of the so-called peace plan in Ukraine, and Primakov’s influence structures both in Russia and in the West. The article about Yevtushenkov’s case was also inevitably related to the information about Primakov’s clan because the oligarch was considered the member of this clan. […]

Professor Kęstutis Girnius has once again decided on DELFI to calm everyone down by saying there is no real danger of Russian aggression against Lithuania. I once again risk becoming what Mr. Girnius calls a “professional Cassandra” by constantly scaring people with the Russian threat. […]

Opinion: Time for EU to review security strategy

November 21, 2014 Laurynas Kasciunas 0

It is a paradox that European security strategy, prepared in 2003, names closer relations with Russia as one of the most important factors of the EU’s security and prosperity. […]