How should we evaluate the current phase of Russia’s war against Ukraine? Is Vladimir Putin content with the results of his invasion and is going to stop? Unfortunately, there are too many arguments that suggest it is just a short silence before the next storm. […]
In the last essay of the series “Putin’s Russia”, I discussed the long efforts of Yevgeny Primakov’s clan to turn Ukraine’s conflict in the direction of conditional peace rather than war by imposing certain conditions and concluding everything with a peace agreement that is so useful to Russia. […]
Sweden‘s armed forces keep their eyes on the tanker NS Concord that has been zig-zagging near the country’s territorial waters for the last couple of days while the Swedes continue to search for what is suspected to be a Russian submarine spotted in Stockholm archipelago. NS Concord does not have a long history but she has already visited Klaipėda Port. […]
“Russia is an unreliable partner, irrespectively of what it says. The world is beginning to learn how to see what Russia actually does,” says Prof. Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the Baltic states and Ukraine of “open manifestations of neonazism”, the news agency Unian reports. […]
The Russian president has scored a victory in Ukraine and against the West. Vladimir Putin has got more than he hoped for, and yet there’s still a lot more that he can win. The game has now become long-term and one in which the most important thing will be strategic patience. And it’s not clear if Russia has the upper here. […]
The Baltic Way has turned Lithuania into a “gaunt wasteland”, “Dutch intellectuals apologize to Putin”, “Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea!”. A group of people who call themselves “national socialists” are sharing these and similar “news” and openly looking for supporters to help them broadcast their “truth”. […]
Lithuania torpedoes all constructive international initiatives dedicated to solving the problems in Ukraine – such complaints are heard from the lips of the representatives of Russia with regards to our diplomats in the most influential international organization – the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). […]
After Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov made allegations that Polish and Lithuanian mercenaries were fighting in Ukraine, the Russian media took upon itself to find proof for the minister’s claims. […]
“If I wanted, in two days I could have Russian troops not only in Kiev, but also in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw, and Bucharest”, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said, according to a report in Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung on 18 September. […]
People in the Baltic states cannot feel secure. Russian President Vladimir Putin has a plan he has been working on for over a decade. So says former adviser to President Putin, Andrey Illarionov. […]
Russian courts could get the green light to seize foreign assets on Russian territory under a draft law intended as a response to Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, The Moscow Times reports. […]
What Russia is doing in Ukraine is no different from terrorist activities seen in Iraq and Syria, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė tells The Washington Post. […]
In a letter to Ukraine‘s President Petro Poroshenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened that Moscow will shut Russian markets for Ukrainian exports if Kiev implements any part of a trade agreement with the European Union. […]
The Lithuanian fishing vessel “Jūrų Vilkas” (“Sea Wolf”) was detained by Russian officials at a significant time – when Vilnius was hosting the meeting of NATO Military Committee, the alliance’s supreme military organ. This cannot be a coincidence, says political scientist Nerijus Maliukevičius of the International Relations and Political Science Institute of Vilnius University. […]
The EU Ambassador to Russia, Vygaudas Ušackas, speaking on the LRT television broadcast, claimed that although Russians are still following their leader, moods are changing because Western sanctions are starting to have a notable effect. […]
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