Timothy Snyder

  • Opinion

Vidmantas Valiušaitis. Regarding Škirpa – my Dear Mayor, the truth is rather to the contrary

The recent assertion by the Mayor of Vilnius, Remigijus Šimašius, regarding the Lithuanian diplomat and military officer, Col. Kazys Škirpa,…

7 years ago
  • Opinion

On Russian Propaganda, Anti-Semitism, and Lithuania’s Lessons

No-brainer questions in VilniusA bizarre debate has taken place in Vilnius a few days ago: should our municipality rename a…

8 years ago
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Lithuanian president to join end of WWII commemoration in Poland

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is travelling to Poland on Thursday to attend, alongside other European leaders, commemorative events marking the…

9 years ago
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Baltic states the line Russia will not dare to cross?

Norman M. Naimark, professor at Stanford University, is one of the most authoritative experts on Central and Eastern Europe in…

9 years ago
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Historian Timothy Snyder: Ukrainian crisis is not about Ukraine, it’s about Europe

Events in Ukraine have no effect on what Russia does or says, because its propaganda is not based on reality…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Orientalism reanimated or colonial thinking in Western analysts’ comments on Ukraine

Over the last few months, pro-Russian commentators in many Western countries have been portraying the Ukrainian events using a mix…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs
  • Global LT

Lithuanian Diplomacy Star awarded to Yale professor and author Timothy Snyder

On Monday, 27 October, the bestselling author, historian and Yale professor Timothy Snyder was honoured with the Lithuanian Diplomacy Star…

10 years ago
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Primakov clan’s trap for the West or a little about Putin’s peace roadmap

In the last essay of the “Putin’s Russia” series we have reviewed the assumptions that suggest that namely Rogozin’s clan…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: To understand Putin, read Orwell

Anyone who wants to understand the current Russian position on Ukraine would do well to begin with George Orwell’s classic,…

10 years ago
  • Global LT

Black Ribbon day commemoration in Washington, DC

Seventy-five years ago, on 23 August, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a cooperation and non-aggression pact. The now…

10 years ago