Journalists from the Russian state-run television channel Rossiya attempted to trick their way into a forum attended by Russian opposition figures and intellectuals in Trakai, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has confirmed. […]
While there are some close ties between leaders of several Lithuanian trade unions and their Russian colleagues, they constitute no threat to national security, says MP Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee. […]
Trakai, a town in southern Lithuania, is hosting a forum of several dozen Russian intellectuals, journalists, public figures and politicians who will discuss Russia and its relations with the West. The speakers include world chess champion Gary Kasparov, journalist Masha Gessen and a member of Pussy Riot. […]
NATO-Russian relations are where they are, at historic lows, because of what Moscow does, not because of how Western nations react to it, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius argues in an op-ed piece for Politico. Russia needs to prove it deserves to be spoken to, while holding meetings for the sake of meetings will be counter-productive. […]
A Lithuanian production of Alexander Pushkin’s play Boris Godunov, directed by Eimuntas Nekrošius at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, will be awarded with a Golden Mask in Moscow. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has said that NATO needs to take a stronger stance with Russia and not allow negotiations to be used as a smokescreen for continuing Russian aggression, he writes in Politico. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius claims that the teachers’ trade unions on strike in Lithuania could have been influenced or inspired by Russia has attracted considerable attention. When describing how some members of the teachers’ trade unions attended certain conferences in Russia, the prime minister rhetorically asked, “Who can deny that, after that, some of their suggestions and desires are implemented here in Lithuania?” […]
Concepts of military strategy and doctrine have long influenced the political and military geography of the Baltic region. […]
The Russian language RTR Planeta television programme, Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov, that is broadcast in Lithuania is being probed by Lithuanian authorities for breaking broadcasting laws. […]
Lithuanian entrepreneurs have been turning away from Russia as their primary market for exports and setting their sight on the Nordic countries. However, different rules apply in Scandinavia, with easy profits hard to come by. […]
Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris has been appointed to the council of the international Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom. […]
With Iran eager to enter the global oil market and both Russia and Saudi Arabia desperate to stay in the game, the two countries’ recent agreement to freeze oil output should be taken with a grain of salt, says Lithuanian energy expert Romas Švedas. […]
Russia cannot last long in its present state of “quasi-war” with the West, says Lithuanian poet and Yale professor Tomas Venclova. The tension will lead to a collapse within a few years, he believes. […]
Russia’s provocative actions and NATO‘s build up in the Baltic Sea region may lead to confrontations, the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces General Micael Byden has warned. […]
The idea of a possible EU common army was supported by 68% of Lithuanians in a recent Eurobarometer survey, but analysts question the wisdom of such a move. […]
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