The recent outbreak of violence in Kiev is a major test for the Ukrainian government, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. He hopes, however, that it will not impede the implementation of the truce deal. […]
There was a time right after World War Two when Lithuanians believed that the United States of America would swoop into a Soviet-occupied country and drive the Soviets away. These hopes were rather baseless, yet the USA did stand by its policy not to recognise the annexation of the Baltic states. The start of this policy is believed to be July 23rd, 1940, with the declaration to this effect by US State Secretary Sumner Welles. […]
Lithuanian leaders will have no time for outgoing Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski who is scheduled to come to Lithuania on Tuesday to receive an honorary doctorate from Vytautas Magnus University in the country’s second-largest city of Kaunas. […]
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. […]
With tensions flaring up again in eastern Ukraine after Russian-supported separatists attacked Mariupol, killing 30 civilians, policymakers and observers in Lithuania are particularly touchy when it comes to relations, or lack thereof, with Russia. Their ire can even fall on someone from their own team if he or she is as much as suspected of sympathies for Russia. […]
I am not a fan of the social-democratic tradition of foreign policy, especially when it comes to perpetually unsuccessful attempts of the Lithuanian left to “turn a new page in relations with Russia” and base their policies towards Poland on promises about name spelling. I dare say, however, that Dovilė Jakniūnaitė’s criticism of Lithuania’s foreign policy in 2014 is unfounded. […]
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 economic recession brought on by plummeting oil prices and Western sanctions. […]
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. […]
Pro-Western forces have won the general elections in Ukraine and they secured a stable majority necessary to push reforms. But a lot of questions remain on oligarchs’ influence on the country’s future progress, says analyst Laurynas Kasčiūnas of the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Lithuania. […]
Presidium of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives) has submitted six candidates for Vilnius mayor to the Vilnius gathering. […]
“It’s a historic moment,” was the reaction when Kiev and Brussels ratified the Ukrainian-EU Association Agreement on Tuesday. However, celebration might be somewhat premature, since Moscow, eager to keep Ukraine within its own sphere of influence and away from the EU, has won significant concessions. […]
The history of the partisan resistance is an integral part of Lithuania’s resistance to Soviet-Russia’s aggression and still speaks to the imagination of most Lithuanians. The present situation of Russian aggression and warfare in Eastern Ukraine and the forceful annexation of Crimea have brought back dreadful memories to many in Lithuania. […]
Political scientist Laurynas Kasčiūnas tells the Žinių Radijas radio station that it is very likely that new military bases will be established in the Baltics which would increase security for the three states. […]
Russian intervention in Ukraine has refocused the attention on the traditional military and security challenges, but the factors that made it possible for today’s Russian attempts to revise the European security architecture should not be forgotten. Primarily, this was the result of the processes in the energy sector that go forward only because of reasoned calls of a part of intellectuals for Europe to stop funding of Vladimir Putin’s regime. […]
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