As V. Putin continues with his threats, blackmail or trolling of Ukraine and the West, there is an urgent need for a more comprehensive understanding of reasons for such behavior of the Kremlin, as well […]
Good news for Lithuanian foreign policy – President G. Nausėda seeks for a Belarus strategy to be created. We have not had one before, it’s not clear we will ever get one, but the intentions […]
The Lithuania Tribune team spoke to Lilia Shevtsova at the Riga Conference on October 12. We talked about US-Russian relations in the Trump era, Russia’s armament efforts, its intentions toward the EU and what future […]
One of the most complicated problems that President Gitanas Nausėda is going to face is nationalism. It is awakening in Europe and it will reach Lithuania too, even though not in the shapes we are […]
President D. Grybauskaitė‘s foreign policy toward the east, first and foremost toward Russia and Belarus, was controversial and hypocritical. How will her successor G. Nausėda act? At the start of her first term, D. Grybauskaitė‘s […]
“Foreign politicians accuse Russia of meddling in elections and referendums around the world. In reality, everything is more serious. Russia is meddling with people’s minds and those same people do not know what to do with their altered consciousness”, – writes the creator of Putinism ideology and the term “sovereign democracy”, Vladislav Surkov. […]
Can the EU strengthen its relationships with its Eastern Partnership countries and encourage them to drift toward the West if it hasn’t established a unified and most importantly – firm – policy regarding Russia? It […]
Specific and motivated legal solutions against ride-sharing company Yandex.Taxi are being looked for, but that’s not a strategic company which can be subject to certain restrictions, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
Lithuania’s State Security Department recommends people who might be of interest to Russian special services not to use the Yandex.Taxi ride-sharing app. […]
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has turned to Lithuanian’s Competition Council, asking for an investigation into whether Yandex.Taxi advertising does not run counter to the country’s laws and does not mislead consumers. […]
The Russian presidential election will take place in a month, but the winner is already clear. The only candidate capable of receiving wider support from voters, Alexey Navalny, has been banned from registering as a candidate due to his criminal record, stemming from a fraud conviction he views as illegitimate. Accordingly, the question now is not about what kind of elections these will be, but what they will mean for Vladimir Putin’s fourth term. In other words, what will the Putin 4.0 system look like? What challenges will it face? […]
What an extraordinary thing Lithuania is doing – the initiation of a process of national awakening and democratic renewal at a time when Lithuania’s national consciousness is already awake and your democracy is vibrant, forward-looking, […]
Lithuania’s parliament has merely one ballot left until adoption of the so-called Magnitsky Act, which would ban entry to foreigners involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering or human rights violations. […]
Today, it is generally accepted inside NATO that the events of 2014 marked Russia‘s turn towards an avowedly revisionist course, whose ambit extends well beyond Ukraine itself. Were it not for Moscow’s justification of its […]
Lithuanian authorities who have detained a drunk Russian border guards have received conflicting calls from Russia to free the young man – a Russian border general initially said the man was an unemployed handicapped man, however, later admitted he was employed with the Russian border service, according to documents received by BNS. […]
Lithuania has been reproached for not inviting representatives of the Russian Constitutional Court to a global constitutional justice congress that got underway in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday restated support to the new sanctions taken by the United States against Russia. […]
Several US congressmen have initiated an investigation which aims to investigate the potential influence of Russia on “green” movements which are fighting against fracking. There have been discussions of a similar investigation in Lithuania as […]
Lithuania’s defense officials say they are keeping a close eye on the joint Russian-Chinese military exercise gaining momentum in the Baltic Sea. […]
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