Society
Russia
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Putin’s week-long disappearance: checking if Russia can fight two and a half wars at once
Russia is successfully implementing military reform whose purpose is to have the capability to fight two and a half military conflicts concurrently. That is, the Russian armed forces must be able to fight two of any type of military conflict and at the same time participate in a peacekeeping operation alone or together with international forces using only standby military capabilities. […]
Defence
NATO fighter jets raised from Lithuania over Russian transport plane
NATO air policing jets were Tuesday scrambled from Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, to accompany a Russian transport airplane. […]
Society
Media watchdog to decide on full ban of Russian TV channel in Lithuania
Lithuania’s Radio and Television Commission will Wednesday decide on issuing a temporary ban on all broadcasts of Russian-language channel RTR Planeta in the country. […]
Defence
NATO jets in Lithuania alerted by Russian fighter-jet
Fighter-jets of the NATO air policing mission in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, were scrambled on Monday to identify and accompany a Russian jet that was flying with its transponder switched off. […]
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EU ambassador to Russia warns against supplying arms to Ukraine
The European Union‘s (EU) Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas says that supplying arms to Ukraine would be a risky step, given the possible response on the Russian part. […]
Economy
EU Ambassador Ušackas: Lithuania should compete for capital leaving Russia
Lithuania should compete for the capital that is now leaving Russia, while special services should prevent possible attempts to influence the country’s internal policies, the European Union’s Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas said in an interview published on Monday. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Is America losing the information war?
It would be hard to imagine Athenian generals worrying about the reporting of Spartan news or even, twenty-four centuries later, Douglas MacArthur caring much about media broadcasts from the land of the rising sun. But when General Philip Breedlove, the Supreme Commander of NATO, recently called on the West to make a greater effort to counter Russia’s toxic war of disinformation against Ukraine and its western allies, his concern made perfect military sense. In a world in which the dissemination of information is a key tactical element in violent conflicts, the West and America have remained far too passive in confronting both the insidious campaign of lies on Russian state-controlled media and the notoriously effective internet recruitment efforts of terrorist groups. […]
Defence
Russia’s militarization of Kaliningrad – sign of forthcoming military stand-off?
Media around the world are increasingly focusing on Kaliningrad as the possible next site of Russian-Western confrontation, as Moscow keeps dispatching military equipment to its enclave squeezed between Lithuania and Poland. […]
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Andreas Umland: New social deal in Russia is “No serious political participation, but Bread and Circuses”
Andreas Umland, German political scientist and senior research fellow at Kiev-based Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, speaks about Russian domestic politics, the “Ukraine crisis” and what the European Union can do about it. […]
Energy
Gazprom says arbitration case against Lithuania lost its relevance
Russia‘s gas giant Gazprom says that an arbitration suit it filed against Lithuania lost its relevance after it sold its stakes in Lietuvos Dujos (Lithuanian Gas) and Amber Grid for 164 million US dollars, more than it sought for in the arbitration case. […]
Foreign affairs
Defence
NATO fighter jets scrambled from Lithuania over Russian transport plane
NATO fighter-jets guarding the Baltic skies from Šiauliai, Lithuania, were scrambled on Thursday evening to accompany a Russian transport airplane that was flying without a flight plan. […]
Energy
Gazprom withdraws claim against Lithuania
Gazprom has withdrawn its claim against Lithuania over the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) Third Energy Package. […]
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Foreign affairs
Foreign affairs
Diplomats working to find out if Lithuanians were on sunken Russian ship
Lithuanian diplomats are working to establish whether Lithuanian citizens were aboard the Russian fishing vessel that sunk close to the coasts of Kamchatka on Thursday. […]
Energy
Gazprom asks Vilnius court for full access to documents on EUR 36m anti-trust fine
A Vilnius court on Wednesday started hearing Gazprom‘s request to grant it full access to documents regarding a fine of almost 35.7 million euros imposed on the Russian gas giant by the Lithuanian competition watchdog. […]