Seen as the party with most potentialNowadays Viktor Uspaskich sings lyric and melodic songs about his difficulties. The difficulties only arose later in his career however; in 2003 when he, a millionaire member of Seimas, […]
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former US presidential adviser on national security, has urged the outgoing administration of Barack Obama to warn Russia that in intrusion into the Baltic states would mean a war to Moscow. […]
NATO fighter-jets serving in the NATO air-policing mission of the Baltic states were last week scrambled from Lithuania three times to identify and accompany Russian warplanes, Lithuania’s Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]
The Russian parliamentary (Duma) elections on September 18 do not promise any major changes. Opinion polls and the general atmosphere show that the country will continue to be led by the United Russia party which is affiliated with Vladimir Putin, while establishment opposition parties will support stability. Regardless, these elections will be significant in understanding the future of the long term, but little understood system of Vladimir Putin’s that has been in place for sixteen years. There are indicators suggesting that the role of the real opposition, despite its fragmentation, is gradually changing. Considering the delicate socioeconomic situation of the country and the presidential elections which are two years away, this makes for certain indications for the future. Thus what role does the opposition perform in the contemporary Russia? […]
January 13 coup defendants living in Russia are willing to take part in the judicial proceedings in Lithuania, however, have not yet stated their final decision. […]
It was only four years ago that the Labour Party (DP) and Order and Justice (TT) got a quite a bit of support from some of the electorate. The latest polls show that both of […]
Rosatom, Russia’s state corporation that is building nuclear power plants in Europe, Asia and Middle East, is turning into an instrument of geopolitical pressure, Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis said during his visit to the United States. […]
Dutch investigators’ conclusion that a Malaysia Airlines jet was downed over eastern Ukraine in 2014 by a Buk missile that came from Russia should open the eyes of those who did not want to see Russia’s involvement in the conflict, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on 28 September. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday examined the circumstances of the recall of Colonel Saulius Pikturna from the post of defense attache to Russia after he married a Russian citizen and failed to notify Lithuania of his new marital status. […]
Lithuania on 23 September formally recalled its defence attache, Saulius Pikturna, from Russia following his marriage to a woman from the Russia-annexed Crimea. […]
Nikolai Philiptchenko, a high-ranking Russian intelligence agent charged with espionage against Lithuania, on Friday refused to testify in his trial in the Vilnius Regional Court. […]
With the Seimas elections nearing, LRT the Lithuania Tribune begins a special series on the main Lithuanian political parties. Meet the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance party. […]
Experts have observed that the Lithuanian People’s Party and the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families’ Union (LLRA-KŠS) electoral programmes discuss the same things, just in different wording. Furthermore they have noted that the […]
Lithuania’s Defence Ministry on Tuesday said it was recalling Defense Attache to Russia Saulius Pikturna due to family reasons, however, did not elaborate on media reports about his marriage with a Russian citizen from Crimea. […]
Lithuania’s authorities urge Russia to investigate violations recorded in the run-up to and during last Sunday’s State Duma polls and underline that the elections do not change their attitude to Russia’s actions toward Ukraine. […]
A recently published survey caused a surge of debate on the role of minorities in Lithuania and the implication of the findings to national security, particularly when discussing the Russian and Polish minorities in Lithuania. With Russian propaganda and pro-Kremlin entities and political parties touting issues with Lithuania, US and the West in general, the survey data provides a number of curious insights, Vaidas Saldžiūnas reported in DELFI […]
On 26 Augustus 1991 the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Algirdas Saudargas signed a document establishing diplomatic relations between a free Lithuania and Iceland. Soon thereafter, a number of countries followed and on 17 September, the UN General Assembly admitted Lithuania as a member. […]
Russia‘s aspirations to regain its influence in Ukraine can only be changed if it stops seeing Ukraine as “an artificial state”, Poland‘s former President Aleksander Kwasniewski said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
At a meeting with the European Union’s (EU) Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas, Russia’s new Human Rights Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova asked questions about Lithuanian supplies of military munitions to Ukraine. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has given a cautious opinion about the idea proposed by his German counterpart, Frank Walter Steinmeier, to develop new international pacts on arms control in the wake of heightened tensions between NATO and Russia. […]
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