A small episode recently has shown that Russian President Vladimir Putin feels like he is a know-it-all who can ignore his advisory team. It happened in Beijing during the fireworks show for the APEC summit participants. […]
It is important to secure ourselves not only against what we see as a threat but also against what Russian President Vladimir Putin considers important, British journalist Edward Lucas said in Lithuania on Thursday. […]
The situation is Ukraine has gotten more ominous. Additional armed Russian troops have entered the country’s territory a week ago, accompanied by heavy weaponry and tanks. This mobilization of Russia‘s armed forces is not the first such occurrence, but the significance lies in its timing on the eve of several high-profile international meetings. […]
The recent G20 summit showed that global leaders are united over Russia‘s aggression in Ukraine, says, Jovita Neliupšienė, chief adviser to President Dalia Grybauskaitė on foreign policy issues. […]
Bluff is an English word that has entered international parlance. Its original meaning refers to a poker player who pretends to have a good hand. […]
In the evening of 20 October 2014, the first snow fell in Moscow. CEO of one of the world’s biggest oil companies, Total, Christophe de Margerie had a meeting in the residence of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to discuss future investment in Russia. […]
As military clashes between Ukraine‘s government forces and pro-Russian separatist fighters in the country’s eastern regions intensify, Lithuanian political scientist Kęstutis Girnius says that the situation might become even more dangerous, especially in the run-up to the G20 summit. […]
The United States may turn a blind eye to the big Russian military build-up on the Ukrainian border in exchange for Moscow’s assistance in Iran’s nuclear negotiations, foreign news reviewer Roger Cohen of The New York Times has warned. […]
Dmitry Kiselyov, controversian Russian journalist and close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has set his eyes on Lithuania. He has revealed plans to develop a Russian news channel in Vilnius. […]
British writer and journalist Edward Lucas said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin might engage in provocations aimed at ultimately destroying NATO. […]
Earlier this month (October 2014), Scandinavian, and especially Swedish, media have focused on Sweden’s apparently abortive efforts to locate what was allegedly a disabled Russian reconnaissance submarine off its shores near Stockholm. But beyond the glaring evidence of the degradation of Swedish military capabilities — a condition it shares with most if not all of Europe — there is a larger story here. […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to blackmail the West with a nuclear weapon. So says Russian policy expert Andrey Piontkovsky. He reasons that if the “little green men” and Russian troops turn up in Estonia, for example, Vladimir Putin would warn NATO not to intervene because that would be a Russian World affair and he’d threaten to use nuclear weapons if the Alliance took military action against him. […]
After Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law limiting foreign capital in Russian media companies to 20 percent, there are fears this will undercut the last remaining voices in the country that dare to be critical of the government. But despite massive pressure, a handful of Russian journalists refuse to give in. […]
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