President Petro Poroshenko  at the White House. Photo Ludo Segers
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Ukrainian President Poroshenko asks US military assistance during visit to Washington

The high-level visit of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to Washington on 18 September attracted much greater attention in the US capital than any other recent visit of a foreign head of state. His busy schedule saw President Poroshenko in the morning addressing the House of Representatives and the Senate in a joint meeting of US Congress before heading to the White House to meet President Barack Obama in the afternoon. […]

Kęstutis Masiulis
Foreign affairs

MP suggests that Lithuania accept refugees from Ukraine

Member of the Lithuanian parliament Kęstutis Masiulis has proposed the Government to accept Ukrainian refugees from Crimea, Donbass and Luhansk regions. […]

Yevgeny Primakov
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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 was the main architect and executor behind the Ukraine’s events. Therefore it would be natural to explore which Russian government clans are the most active in opposing the aggression towards Ukraine, and how they do it. […]

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Defence

How long could Lithuania resist open military aggression?

As Russia is engaging in an undeclared war in eastern Ukraine, people in the Baltic states follow developments in Donbass with anxiety, while their leaders work around the clock to ensure that similar scenarios could not be repeated in their backyards. Still, “what would we do if Russia attacked Lithuania?” has become a question regularly discussed in political meetings, lecture halls and pubs. […]

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Defence

Lithuanian troops take part in exercise in western Ukraine

Soldiers of Lithuania’s Land Forces are starting participation in an international exercise Rapid Trident 2014 in Ukraine‘s Lviv district on Monday. […]

Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine
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Russian Soldiers – cheap and luckless (I)

Ten years ago on 3 September 2004 at exactly 13:00 in Beslan, North Ossetia, Chechen terrorists allowed the bodies of local people who had been killed and left lying there for three days in front of a school, to be gathered up. On 1 September the 34 Chechen terrorists had taken about 1200 teenagers and children hostage in the school. […]

Riga Conference 2014

Riga Conference 2014 opens with discussions on global economy and security

The first day of the annual foreign policy and security forum Rīga Conference 2014 has concluded with the lively discussions about the challenges and opportunities of the global and regional economy, security threats and relations with Russia. […]