The West can still stop Vladimir Putin with economic and political measures, but if he is allowed to get away with Ukraine, NATO could face a threat of a nuclear stand-off with Moscow, says Russian political analyst Andrey Piontkovsky. […]
The EU on Thursday refused to confirm a report that President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine‘s leader that Russian troops could invade Eastern European capitals within two days if ordered. […]
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. […]
In a meeting with Ukraine‘s President Petro Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin allegedly threatened that, if he wanted, the Russian army could occupy Poland and the Baltic states in two days. […]
“It’s a historic moment,” was the reaction when Kiev and Brussels ratified the Ukrainian-EU Association Agreement on Tuesday. However, celebration might be somewhat premature, since Moscow, eager to keep Ukraine within its own sphere of influence and away from the EU, has won significant concessions. […]
Ratification of the Ukraine–European Union (EU) association agreement is a symbolic act, however, it is obscured by the decision to postpone enforcement of the free trade agreement amid pressure from Russia and some Ukrainian oligarchs, Lithuanian experts say. […]
The Russian government, involved in the bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine, has intensified the harassment of the Baltic states, says Lithuanian member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis. […]
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. […]
On Monday, NATO Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove had a not-so-subtle message for Russia: it will consider stealth and unofficial invasions to be a trigger for war, the Daily Beast reports. […]
Baltic States are safe because they are with NATO. Russia will not try to threaten member states of the alliance because that would be “totally insane”, believes Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
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. […]
Responding to reports about “elections” held in Ukraine‘s Autonomous Republic of Crimea on 14 September, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry underlined that Lithuania supported Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity and considered organising such “elections” in Crimea as yet another illegal action of the occupation authorities. […]
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. […]
Second day of the annual forum Rīga Conference 2014 was filled with lively debate and exchange of opinions among speakers of panel discussions, bringing together high-level foreign security and foreign policy experts, diplomats, politicians, academics, businessmen and journalists. […]
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