Vladimir Putin has become Russian president once again. This comes as no surprise to anyone because there were no real elections in Russia, just a vote, LRT.lt writes. Can new details be gleaned from this […]
One of the most significant events for Lithuania has been the deployment of the German-led NATO battalion. This was a very concrete deterrence measure against Russian aggression, with the latter performing the Zapad military exercise […]
Rūta Vanagaitė herself accused Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas of untrue things, meanwhile her defenders accuse Lithuania. The loudest voice here is that of the European Jewish Congress whose head is a Kremlin-leaning oligarch who has businesses in […]
How will Trump’s victory affect the world? And Lithuania? Lithuanian leaders hope that he will continue current American policy and will not sell Lithuania to Putin. Meanwhile some political scientists warn that it is no […]
Russia does not seek peace in the Middle East but has far bigger global strategic intentions, says Lithuanian political analyst Marius Laurinavičius. […]
In the last essay of this series, I presented the experience of historic and recent Russia‘s impact in Greece, now I will attempt to look at one of the new member states of the European Union – the Czech Republic. […]
Conventional wisdom dictates vision before planning. It seems neither are present in the cautious, yet steady Western reset with Belarus, whose authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko recently secured his fifth term in elections widely considered to be flawed, argues Marius Laurinavičius, fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]
In the latest article of this series (“Putin’s Russia. Kremlin’s Goal No. 1”) I analysed the theory and practice of Russian foreign policy trying to ground the thesis that Kremlin’s main goal is to undermine the EU and NATO, and bring the world back to the times of international power balance. […]
A visit several weeks ago by Kurt Volker, former US ambassador to NATO and currently the head of the McCain Institute, would have gone unnoticed by the Lithuanian public, if it weren’t for a few media interviews. And even if it was noticed, many must have thought it of little consequence. […]
I purposefully chose a title for my piece to evoke the notorious phrase from 1949 by the then US Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal: “The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming. They’re right around. I’ve seen Russian soldiers.” […]
The world has truly entered a new era. Even Russia‘s nuclear blackmail has become such an everyday occurrence that it sometimes passes underappreciated. One concludes thus after last week’s reports in British dailies The Times and The Independent about a meeting between Russian and US generals in March where Russia voiced threats of a nuclear response should NATO continue to deploy forces in the Baltic states. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
The Lithuanian president has called Russia a terrorist-like state. This will undoubtedly be a burden to Lithuania’s new ambassador to Moscow Remigijus Motuzas. When leaders talk of war, diplomats throw in the towel. […]
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. […]
In the last essay of the series “Putin’s Russia”, I discussed the long efforts of Yevgeny Primakov’s clan to turn Ukraine’s conflict in the direction of conditional peace rather than war by imposing certain conditions and concluding everything with a peace agreement that is so useful to Russia. […]
In the last essay of the “Putin’s Russia” series we have reviewed the assumptions that suggest that namely Rogozin’s clan was the main architect and executor behind the Ukraine’s events. Therefore it would be natural to explore which Russian government clans are the most active in opposing the aggression towards Ukraine, and how they do it. […]
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