Russia is trying to justify its own aggression by mixing up the causes and consequences in its new military doctrine which names NATO as the key threat, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Monday. […]
The crisis in Ukraine, and in particular Russia‘s recent cancellation of the South Stream natural gas pipeline project, has had substantial ripple effects on the energy dynamics on the European continent. The Russians and Europeans both have put forth several potential replacements for the now scrapped pipeline, with Turkey likely to play a pivotal role either way. […]
Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America Žygimantas Pavilionis thinks that the US administration under President Barack Obama has been naive in wishing to “reset” relations with Russia, but this is the trap that every new president falls into. He hopes, however, that Obama’s successor – be it Hillary Clinton or someone else – will have a better grasp on geopolitical realities of Eastern Europe. […]
Edward Lucas, Editor of The Economist and expert on Eastern Europe forecasts a dismal future for Russia, which is also witnessed by ethnic alienation there. […]
During his visit to Lithuania, Edward Lucas, one of the most prominent British columnists analysing geopolitical situation in the Eastern Europe, urged Lithuania to pay more attention to dissemination of its success stories and be more active in fight with the even smallest provocations of Russia in their early stages. […]
Experts from the Eastern Europe Studies Centre (EESC) presented the study “Eastern Partnership (EaP) in a Changing Security Environment: ‘Muddling Through’ or New Incentives for Reform?”. The event took place at the Lithuanian Parliament on 12 November. […]
It is important to secure ourselves not only against what we see as a threat but also against what Russian President Vladimir Putin considers important, British journalist Edward Lucas said in Lithuania on Thursday. […]
The ‘short 20th century’ — as opposed to ‘the long 19th century’ — was characterized by high levels of destruction. Wars, ideological conflicts, population mobilizations, massive displacements, and genocides lay at the heart of the emergence of modernity across the continent. These questions are addressed in a seminar series organized by Vilnius University and European Humanities University, “Violence and Social Change in Lithuania, Belarus, and Central-Eastern Europe in the 20th Century”. […]
Senior editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, Polish dissident Adam Michnik, has been nominated for the 2014 Freedom Prize, the Lithuanian parliament said on Friday. […]
The United States may turn a blind eye to the big Russian military build-up on the Ukrainian border in exchange for Moscow’s assistance in Iran’s nuclear negotiations, foreign news reviewer Roger Cohen of The New York Times has warned. […]
Competition. The small Eastern European country strongly believes that technology and science will attract foreign companies, rather than just low wages, according to the Danish daily Berlingske. […]
Six years ago, when Russia attacked Georgia and tore off the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Western countries were, as always, “very concerned”, sent out their observers, provided humanitarian support and Nocolas Sarozy, the then President of France, volunteered to mediate in settling the conflict. […]
Over the last few months, pro-Russian commentators in many Western countries have been portraying the Ukrainian events using a mix of stereotypes that scarily resemble the rhetoric once typical of racist and imperialist ways of thinking. As a result of such stereotypes, Ukrainians (but also Georgians, Moldovans, Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians) have fallen victims to a new form of Orientalism, a distorted way of thinking that people in the West exhibit all too often when talking about other parts of the world. […]
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