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Belarus and Armenia re-evaluate relations with Russia

January 31, 2015 STRATFOR 0

Recent developments indicate that two of Moscow’s most loyal allies in the former Soviet periphery, Belarus and Armenia, may be reassessing their ties with Russia in light of the country’s standoff with the West. […]

Opinion: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to identify with Putin

January 21, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. […]

Opinion: Khodorkovsky’s speech in Vilnius or prudence vs. clatter of dreamers

January 21, 2015 Vladimiras Laucius 0

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s visit in Vilnius has triggered a wave of emotional reactions that seem to have overwhelmed the critical thinking faculties and political sense of angry observers. Absolutely scandalous – Khodorkovsky dared not to say that he would immediately give back Crimea if he became Russia’s leader! […]

Leonidas Donskis and Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Opinion: Is Mikhail Khodorkovsky the devil’s advocate?

January 19, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

The Merchants’ Guild building on Gedimino Avenue in central Vilnius hosted a conference in late November 2013 which featured Ukraine‘s opposition players. […]

Kremlinologist Lilia Shevtsova: Putin is a mediocre leader pushing his country to collapse

January 12, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Lilia Shevtsova, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution, says that Vladimir Putin is a far cry from the shrewd and effective leader everyone, friends and foes alike, take him to be. On the contrary, she says, the Russian president is a shallow mediocrity who has not got a clue how to avert his country’s imminent collapse. […]

Opinion: So long sucker or how Putin’s propaganda succeeded in playing the extremists

January 8, 2015 Lukas Trakimavicius 0

In the 1950s, Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash invented a Machiavellian game entitled So Long Suckers. To win, a player had to game, and ultimately betray, his adversaries. Today, as they sit in frozen trenches in what was once aptly named the Wild Fields, it looks as if the soldiers of the ‘Union of People’s Republic’ are the ones that have been played. […]

Marshall plan for Ukraine: What should be done a year after Maidan?

November 29, 2014 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

The new Ukrainian Government has been appointed one year after the Euromaidan revolution began in Kyiv. In November 2013, those who felt mostly betrayed by President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych crowded in the Maidan of Kyiv. […]

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy at Vilnius Summit

One year after Vilnius summit: Times of “limited sovereignty” coming back?

November 28, 2014 BNS 0

“Europe had been waiting for an engagement party for two years but it was called off a week before,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius on the evening of 28 November 2013 after Ukraine refused to sign the association agreement with the European Union (EU). […]

EP president’s adviser Pranckevičius: Russia is building a coalition against free world

November 27, 2014 euroblogas.lt 0

Arnoldas Pranckevičius, adviser to the president of the European Parliament, says that while the European Union might seem slow and irresolute when it comes to external challenges like Russia‘s actions in Ukraine, its adherence to rules and procedures is what makes it a beacon of a different and better world. […]

Ukraine's future ruling coalition should be formed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's block and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's People's Front party

Pro-Western forces won in Ukraine but oligarchs didn’t go away, Lithuanian analyst says

October 27, 2014 BNS 0

Pro-Western forces have won the general elections in Ukraine and they secured a stable majority necessary to push reforms. But a lot of questions remain on oligarchs’ influence on the country’s future progress, says analyst Laurynas Kasčiūnas of the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Lithuania. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister: Ukraine is bidding goodbye to its past

October 27, 2014 BNS 0

The victory of pro-Western forces in Ukraine‘s general elections shows that the country is bidding goodbye to its past and is ready to take the European path, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]

Ex-Ukrainian president’s son approaches Lithuanian ministries over sanctions

October 13, 2014 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s ministries have received a letter from the lawyers of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych‘s son Oleksandr, inquiring about the sanctions he is being subjected to. […]

EuroMaidan nominated for EP’s Sakharov prize

September 25, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

Nominations were made on Tuesday for the European Parliament’s 2014 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Among them is the Ukrainian EuroMaidan movement, which led to the overthrow of the regime of Viktor Yanukovych, Euractiv reports. […]

Association Agreement with EU – victory for Ukraine or Russia?

September 17, 2014 DELFI EN 0

“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. […]