The West can still stop Vladimir Putin with economic and political measures, but if he is allowed to get away with Ukraine, NATO could face a threat of a nuclear stand-off with Moscow, says Russian political analyst Andrey Piontkovsky. […]
The EU on Thursday refused to confirm a report that President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine‘s leader that Russian troops could invade Eastern European capitals within two days if ordered. […]
In a meeting with Ukraine‘s President Petro Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin allegedly threatened that, if he wanted, the Russian army could occupy Poland and the Baltic states in two days. […]
“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. […]
In the last essay of the “Putin’s Russia” series we have reviewed the assumptions that suggest that namely Rogozin’s clan was the main architect and executor behind the Ukraine’s events. Therefore it would be natural to explore which Russian government clans are the most active in opposing the aggression towards Ukraine, and how they do it. […]
Ten years ago on 3 September 2004 at exactly 13:00 in Beslan, North Ossetia, Chechen terrorists allowed the bodies of local people who had been killed and left lying there for three days in front of a school, to be gathered up. On 1 September the 34 Chechen terrorists had taken about 1200 teenagers and children hostage in the school. […]
How far will the aggressive regime of Vladimir Putin go? I put this question in June to my former colleague who is ambassador of one of the foreign countries. The answer was simple and precise – Putin will go as far as the Western States will allow it. […]
Though there is almost a feeling of euphoria in Russia over the aggression against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is leading his country into its demise, claims former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Paul Goble in an interview with DELFI. […]
If Russian President Vladimir Putin were replaced by another politician in the Kremlin, Russia‘s foreign policy would not change, most Lithuanians think. […]
When on 15 January 1991, the United Nations issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to withdraw troops from occupied Kuwait, it was clear for Lithuania that the Soviet Union might take advantage of this event and hit back at our independence. […]
Anyone who wants to understand the current Russian position on Ukraine would do well to begin with George Orwell’s classic, 1984, writes Timothy Snyder, Housum professor of History at Yale University, for the Politico. […]
European and NATO leadership must now demonstrate their leadership and keep Russia’s President Vladimir Putin from going too far, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says it is difficult to expect that the peace plan proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin will be successful, because it refuses to admit the realities in eastern Ukraine. […]
The United States and Russia entered a new and more dangerous phase of their pseudo-Cold War this week. […]
Ukraine‘s President Petro Poroshenko announced on Wednesday he agreed with Russia‘s Vladimir Putin on a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. However, he later modified his statement to say that Kiev and Moscow merely agreed on a process to end fighting. […]
Since the start of this year, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has invaded Ukraine, annexed Crimea and pushed for Ukraine’s “federalization.” The severe international concern caused by these actions was further compounded last month (August 2014) by Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s statement in Yalta that after Moscow subdues Ukraine, it will move against other post-Soviet countries in order to rebuild the Russian Empire. Not surprisingly, many countries in the region have thus been forced to consider where the Kremlin might move next and what means it might employ against them—from demands for “federalization” to open aggression. […]
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