The United States and its allies should deploy troops to Baltic states to deter Russia from staging a possible incursion in those countries, former presidential national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, told lawmakers Wednesday, AFP reports. […]
Western powers are less fearful of Putin than of the chaos and unpredictability that the massive nuclear country might sink into once he is gone, says Janusz Bugajski, senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]
Russia‘s former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an ardent critic of President Vladimir Putin, may play a special role in the change of the Russian regime, therefore, Lithuania should not criticize his statements regardless of the split in positions, says Lithuania’s opposition leader and former PM, Andrius Kubilius. […]
Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov hopes that Russia‘s incumbent President Vladimir Putin will cede power peacefully through elections, as the country’s economy is heading for a recession. […]
During the annexation of Crimea, Russia‘s President Vladimir Putin laid “philosophical foundation” for invasion of any country with a Russian-speaking community, said well-known Russian political scientist and publicist Andrey Piontkovsky in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
For days now many in the global and Lithuanian media have locked horns over the terrorist acts in Paris. There are some who say that freedom to express one’s convictions is above any religious or social group interests; others contend that cartoons published by the likes of Charlie Hebdo made merciless mockery of believers’ feelings, that they cannot be subsumed under the “social group” category and have nothing to do with freedom of expression. […]
Ethnic tension between Lithuania and Poland is a great gift to Vladimir Putin‘s Russia, says former Polish dissident Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief of the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. Michnik was awarded the Freedom Prize 2014 in the Lithuanian Seimas on Tuesday as Lithuania marks the Freedom Defenders’ Day. […]
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. […]
Again, this article will not be related to the structure, clans, their interrelations, and KGB basis in Putin’s current regime. This essay is a sequel of the previous piece which aimed to take another glimpse at Putin’s suspicious links with international terrorism. […]
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. […]
The two-thousand-strong protest rally in Moscow this week, triggered by a court sentence for anti-Kremlin campaigner Alexei Navalny and his brother, shows that, despite all the effort, Vladimir Putin‘s regime has not completely crushed the opposition in Russia. A Maidan in Moscow is probably Putin’s worst nightmare. Can it come true? […]
A sentence for the Kremlin’s most famous critic Alexei Navalny was pronounced earlier than everyone expected. This might have been done to deflect protests by Navalny’s supporters, who were planning to take to the streets of Moscow in January, but also due to economic pressures, says a Lithuanian political scientist. […]
Russia is trying to justify its own aggression by mixing up the causes and consequences in its new military doctrine which names NATO as the key threat, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Monday. […]
Russia has consistently applied its own interpretation of history and dose of propaganda vis-à-vis the Baltic states. In the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the main source of tension in the propaganda sphere was the interpretation of Soviet history, in particular Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. […]
In the articles of Putin’s Russia series I have repeatedly written about Yevgeny Primakov’s clan. I have described in detail the ongoing battle regarding the implementation of the so-called peace plan in Ukraine, and Primakov’s influence structures both in Russia and in the West. The article about Yevtushenkov’s case was also inevitably related to the information about Primakov’s clan because the oligarch was considered the member of this clan. […]
It is often said that politicians make for strange bedfellows. Moreover, people are judged by the friends or partners they have in life. In that light, one really should question Rolandas Paksas’ judgement when he invited UKIP’s Nigel Farage to his Order and Justice party congress in Vilnius. […]
As the saying goes, a pessimist is just a well-informed optimist. Russia‘s president is able to get any kind of information, but this is not enough: it is important how this information is processed and used. One can judge from Vladimir Putin‘s 3 hours and 10 minutes long press conference, where he answered 53 questions, that his mind is protected from reality by a very dense sieve which only lets through information that he anticipates. The rest is rejected or modified in such a way that it becomes unrecognisable. […]
The news agency Bloomberg has included the Baltic states in the list of places in the world where geopolitical tensions could run high next year. […]
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