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Opinion

Edward Lucas: Russia is winning

I have been dealing with European security for more than thirty years, as an activist during the Cold War, as a journalist, and at think-tanks1. […]

Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin
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What Angela Merkel doesn’t say about NATO-Russia agreement

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated on several occasions that stationing permanent NATO forces in Eastern Europe would be in breach of the 1997 NATO-Russia agreement. However, legal expert Erika Leonaitė, a lecturer at the International Relations and Political Science Institute of Vilnius University, says the reality is more complicated than that. […]

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Defence

Lithuanian defence minister and chief of defence off to Wales for NATO summit

Lithuania’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas and Chief of Defence Major General Vytautas Žukas will take part in the NATO Summit in Wales on 4-5 September, the Ministry of National Defence informs. […]

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Kremlin said to be developing plan for partitioning Georgia

Since the start of this year, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has invaded Ukraine, annexed Crimea and pushed for Ukraine’s “federalization.” The severe international concern caused by these actions was further compounded last month (August 2014) by Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s statement in Yalta that after Moscow subdues Ukraine, it will move against other post-Soviet countries in order to rebuild the Russian Empire. Not surprisingly, many countries in the region have thus been forced to consider where the Kremlin might move next and what means it might employ against them—from demands for “federalization” to open aggression. […]

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Barack Obama to arrive in Tallinn Wednesday morning

Even though US President Barack Obama was to arrive in Tallinn Tuesday night and spend a night there, the presidential jet will land in Estonia only on Wednesday morning, according to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. […]