Siberian gulag
Foreign affairs

Memorial to victims of Stalinist repressions with Lithuanian names unveiled near Moscow

A memorial to victims of Stalinist repressions was unveiled near Moscow on Saturday and the memorial “Wall of Remembrance” also features Lithuanian names. […]

Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Cyber security

A strong state is built by different nations working together: what tools does the Kremlin use to prevent this from happening?

Lithuania is not a monoethnic state. Poles, Russians, Tatars and other ethnicities live in our state and their presence here dates back to the times of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Much like in any society, different nationalities sometimes fail to communicate with one another. This is a problem that needs to be addressed but, lately, Russia has been trying to exploit miscommunication between different ethnic communities in Lithuania. Below, specialists advise how to recognize the methods of informational pressure that the Kremlin uses to sow discord, and how to respond to them. […]

Dainava district partisans. Winter 1945-1946
Cyber security

Lithuanian freedom fighters in Russian propaganda: why does the Kremlin care?

Historical falsification, fact distortion, and tendentious interpretation are commonly employed as informational pressure tools to spread negative narratives among the neighboring states, to discourage citizens’ faith in their state, to weaken the will to resist the aggressor, to instill doubt about the country’s past, its historically important people. Below, Auksė Ūsienė, the senior specialist at the Strategic Communications department of the Lithuanian military explains why Lithuanian partisans often become targets of the Kremlin’s propaganda. […]

No Picture
Foreign affairs

Georgian foreign minister visiting Lithuania

Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani is visiting Vilnius on Tuesday to discuss on his country’s EU and NATO integration and the security situation with Lithuanian politicians. […]

No Picture
Foreign affairs

Lithuania, UK, several other EU countries press for sanctions over cyber-attacks

Lithuania, Britain and several other EU member states have called on the European Union to expand the scope of the bloc’s sanctions regime to include cyber-attacks. […]

EBN business breakfast
Foreign affairs

Fake news and resilience to Russian disinformation: NATO deterrence and stability in the Baltic region

The Russian efforts to undermine stability in Europe has been in the news throughout the Western world, but nowhere else is the threat felt as acutely as in the Baltic States. The European Business Network invited its members to hear about NATO’s work to counter the threat in the Baltics, a press release from the network states. […]