The crisis in Ukraine, and in particular Russia‘s recent cancellation of the South Stream natural gas pipeline project, has had substantial ripple effects on the energy dynamics on the European continent. The Russians and Europeans both have put forth several potential replacements for the now scrapped pipeline, with Turkey likely to play a pivotal role either way. […]
President Vladimir Putin‘s end-of-the-year media conference left little space for interpretation about Russia‘s foreign policy in the face of looming economic recession brought on by plummeting oil prices and Western sanctions. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s statements comparing NATO enlargement to the construction of a new Berlin Wall. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday he sees no positive steps by Russia in resolving the Ukrainian crisis, adding that there are no grounds for lifting the existing sanctions. […]
Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine is well-oiled. That’s more or less what our media concludes from the ubiquitous lies diffusing from the Russian TV channels. When you work in communications, the operation of this machine seems even more menacing because it’s not only the final result that you see. You understand perfectly from this result the amount of people, resources and impact employed. […]
In the ideological part of his annual address, Vladimir Putin explained how spiritual Russia was and that it would never succumb to the West that has been trying to ruin it for centuries. In the economic part of the speech, he gave the recipe of what should be done to maintain prosperity. […]
While nobody wants Russia to go bankrupt, the rouble crisis and the pending economic difficulties should make Russia revise its policies, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
It was all over the world news when Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė publicly stated that Russia was a “terrorist country”. She later explained that Russia “has attributes of a terrorist state”. […]
This year Vladimir Putin‘s annual address received particularly much attention: the leader of an aggressive state with declining economy was presenting his vision, a state that is a real headache to anyone who has to deal with it. […]
If there was anything surprising in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual address to the Federal Assembly it was that there was nothing new in it. It seems that slowly, very slowly, something is dawning on the Kremlin: a gloomy realization that Vladimir Putin is no saviour. […]
Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America Žygimantas Pavilionis thinks that the US administration under President Barack Obama has been naive in wishing to “reset” relations with Russia, but this is the trap that every new president falls into. He hopes, however, that Obama’s successor – be it Hillary Clinton or someone else – will have a better grasp on geopolitical realities of Eastern Europe. […]
President Vladimir Putin gave his annual state of the nation address in the Russian parliament. Lithuanian political analyst Kęstutis Girnius summarizes Putin’s main message thus: sanctions are Western countries’ fault, not his. […]
The Western countries are unable to properly respond to Russia‘s aggressive policies, because they are “rich enough to afford the luxury of believing that [they] can take a vacation from history, and ignore the permanent reality of human violence and conflicting, zero-sum interests,” according to Hoover Institution research fellow Prof. Bruce S. Thornton. […]
Professor Kęstutis Girnius has once again decided on DELFI to calm everyone down by saying there is no real danger of Russian aggression against Lithuania. I once again risk becoming what Mr. Girnius calls a “professional Cassandra” by constantly scaring people with the Russian threat. […]
The European Union‘s sanctions are not aimed at ordinary Russian citizens, and Europe is committed to further invest in people-to-people contacts, the Lithuanian EU Ambassador to Russia, Vygaudas Ušackas, said in his welcome speech at the opening of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum in Tallinn. […]
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. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called Russia “a terrorist state”. Moscow retorted by saying that Grybauskaitė should grow out of “communist youth” maximalism. Some extremists at the Russian Duma have even proposed to sever diplomatic relations with Vilnius. […]
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