Pabėgėliai iš Irako
Society

3 Iraqi refugee families arrive in Lithuania

Three Iraqi families arrived in Vilnius on Friday. The Catholic Church of Lithuania will take care of their accommodation and integration. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

Lithuanian president delivers State of the Nation address: The world is not a peaceful place

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė made her annual State of the Nation address at the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, on Thursday. In her speech, the president mostly focused on national defence, security challenges stemming from Russia‘s aggressive policies, as well as emigration of working-age population. Grybauskaitė also stressed the need to work more on addressing social issues, particularly in childcare institutions. […]

Mac Thornberry
Uncategorized

US congressman in Vilnius: Russia is a bully we must stand up to

Russia is threatening other countries, because this is Moscow’s way of working, US House Committee on Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]

Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė
Opinion

Opinion: What terrorists and Putin have in store for us

For days now many in the global and Lithuanian media have locked horns over the terrorist acts in Paris. There are some who say that freedom to express one’s convictions is above any religious or social group interests; others contend that cartoons published by the likes of Charlie Hebdo made merciless mockery of believers’ feelings, that they cannot be subsumed under the “social group” category and have nothing to do with freedom of expression. […]

No Picture
Opinion

Opinion: Conflicts of the past year connected by corruption

A retrospective look at the conflicts dominating the headlines in 2014 presents a grim picture of escalating conflict and human suffering. Underneath the headlines is a common thread connecting the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Ukrainian protesters in the Maidan, and the Nigerian families still desperately seeking someone to #BringBackOurGirls. That common thread is corruption, Mary Beth Goodman, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, writes on The Mark News. […]

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

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. This essay is a sequel of the previous piece which aimed to take another glimpse at Putin’s suspicious links with international terrorism. […]

Catherine Ashton
European Union

EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting to focus on Ebola

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is participating at the European Union (EU) Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Monday. […]