Central/Eastern Europe
The purpose of our war
I keep saying that this is our war, not just Ukraine’s. It is the war of the entire democratic Western world against the restoration of the Evil Empire. If it is the war of the […]
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine
European Union
Germans are the EU’s political Achilles’ heel: this has been clear ever since Schröder and Merkel used to fly to Moscow
Russia is so far confidently ahead of Ukraine. Fortunately, not on the battlefield. But, as the EU’s foreign policy chief, Mr Borell, has pointed out, since the start of the war, the Community has provided […]
Central/Eastern Europe
Expert assesses Zelensky’s speech: one accent is most important
On March 13, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Lithuanian Parliament remotely. Lauras Bielinis, a professor at Vytautas Magnus University, argues that the most important accent in the Ukrainian leader’s speech was Western […]
Central/Eastern Europe
The diary of a survivor in Kyiv. April 8
“Irpin, Bucha, Gostomel are the places where the Russians committed war crimes. The first impressions from the Ukrainian soldiers”. I am sure that the pictures of people shot just on the sidewalks, shot in the […]
Central/Eastern Europe
Lithuania’s Ambassador to Russia returns to Lithuania: what he saw how Russians had changed their attitude towards foreigners
Following the government’s decision to lower the level of diplomatic representation with Russia, Ambassador to Moscow Eitvydas Bajarūnas returned to Lithuania this week. He said that Russian hatred of Western citizens is now at an […]
Central/Eastern Europe
What Russia should do with Ukraine? Have a look at their plan
RIA NOVOSTI has clarified Russia’s plans vis-à-vis Ukraine and the rest of the free world in an article like this: What Russia should do with Ukraine? Bucha is a perfect illustration of the plan and […]
Central/Eastern Europe
MEAN WAR-2022: MONOLOGUES & PICTURES
Summary of the Week 6: March 31 – April 6, 2022. WITNESSING AND OPPOSING EVIL. Anyone who is aware with minimal security-related knowledge, realised that with his trip to Bucha, president Zelensky risked a lot. It […]
Central/Eastern Europe
Medalinskas, who escaped from Ukraine, talks about the West’s astonishing disability and the Russian choice of slaughter places
Alvydas Medalinskas, a political analyst who escaped from the Russian-occupied city of Berdiansk just a few weeks ago, recalls that it was only by chance that he did not go back to Mariupol on the […]
Central/Eastern Europe
The Russian Liberal Bias
Do not expect grassroots change to happen in Russia. A popular phrase spoken only half-jokingly by the residents of Moscow goes like this, “Moscow ends, and Russia begins at the Sadovoye Koltso”. Sadovoye Koltso, or […]
Defence
Use of the emerging disruptive technologies by the Russian Armed Forces in the Ukrainian War
The Russian Ministry of Defence on March 18 reported that Russian forces had used Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and destroyed an underground depot for missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Delyatina in Western Ukraine. […]
Central/Eastern Europe
What to do with Russia: the country that will remain on the map after the war in Ukraine?
During the Cold War, the Americans pursued a strategy of containment toward the Soviet Union to prevent any kind of Soviet expansion, whether militarily, economically or ideologically. Now, whatever the outcome of the Kremlin-induced war […]
Society
How it was to survive in Mariupol
Artur Shevchenko is a Web programmer. He told me about a humanitarian catastrophe that happened in the middle of Europe in the city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine. He is 32 years old. He recalled […]
Society
MEAN WAR-2022: MONOLOGUES & PICTURES
Summary of the Week V: March 24 – March 30, 2022 A CATASTROPHE AND A TRAGEDY Inna Rogatchi ©. Sketch of Rain II. 2022. Usually, there are a few categories of people who are occupied […]
Central/Eastern Europe
Must stop the genocide together: the appeal of the Ukrainian journalists to foreign journalists
Dear journalists and media workers of world media, We, the National Journalists Union of Ukraine, would like to thank you for the support of Ukraine, which we feel in times of Russian invasion into our […]
Culture
Putin-glorifying artist’s door to Lithuania closed: ‘Such specimens will surely find no place on the Lithuanian stage’
The news portal tv3.lt first started reporting about the controversial ballet dancer Sergey Polunin and his plans to perform in Lithuania in October last year. On March 23, the Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys confirmed […]
Central/Eastern Europe
How to survive in hell, or Vasylyna’s story from Vorzel
Vasylyna Tomyshynets is an accountant at One Philosophy Group. She loves her job so much and gained a perfect reputation with her colleagues. She is a true believer, considers herself a Greek Catholic, and regularly […]
Central/Eastern Europe
Lviv is a city that welcomes, protects and defends Ukrainians
For almost a month now, the Ukrainian people have fought the Russian occupiers heroically. While fierce fighting continues across much of Ukraine, the western part of Ukraine has become a kind of protective fortress, hiding […]
Central/Eastern Europe
Passengers from Moscow get a realistic picture of Russia’s war in Ukraine
An exhibition of photographs of Russia’s war in Ukraine opens on the platform of Vilnius railway station, where transit trains run from Moscow to Kaliningrad Region and back stop. The aim is to focus the […]
Central/Eastern Europe
MEAN WAR-2022: MONOLOGUES
Summary of the Week IV of the Mean War: March 17 – March 23, 2022 This article is a part of an Urgent Appeal for Ukraine by the Rogatchi Foundation. The Mean War: Chorus of […]
Defence
Allied troop increase in Lithuania could be 2-3 times higher, says Army Chief: “But numbers are not the point”
Lithuanian Chief of Army Valdemaras Rupšys says that it is important for Lithuania to have the largest possible deterrent capability in the country. He also points out that the allied troop strength in the country […]