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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Warsaw

Warsaw decisions: Is one battalion enough?

July 19, 2016 BNS 0

The NATO summit in Warsaw has been lauded as historical, a breaking point that gave the Baltic states and Poland a reason to celebrate and stop fearing potential aggression from Russia. […]

The real reasons behind Russia’s recent restraint – and how long it is likely to last

June 24, 2016 Pavel K. Baev 0

With the NATO summit in Warsaw coming up in July, the rhetoric in many Western quarters is becoming shriller about the need to contain Russian aggression. […]

Great power games: Do ordinary Russians really want war?

June 18, 2016 Andrei Kolesnikov 0

Does the international perception of Russia as an expansionist and warmongering country sit well with the mood of Russia’s population? […]

Is Sweden and Finland joining NATO inevitable?

June 9, 2016 Andrei Kolesnikov 0

A recent study commissioned by Finland has outlined the pros and cons of the country joining NATO. […]

Grybauskaitė on Forbes list of 100 most powerful women

June 7, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has been included in Forbes Magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most powerful women. Grybauskaitė took 72nd place. […]

Is the West misreading Vladimir Putin?

June 6, 2016 Anna Newby 0

Is the West misreading Russian President Vladimir Putin? Brookings Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the United States and Europe Fiona Hill sets the record straight in a new article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. […]

Twitter shutdown of Putin parody accounts sparks social media backlash

June 2, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

The European Twittersphere is up in arms over a recent indication that Russia’s propaganda efforts may be prompting Twitter to close Twitter accounts that parody Russia and its most important leaders, reports the Financial Times. […]

The Savchenko swap: Why did Putin really free Ukraine’s most famous pilot?

May 31, 2016 Lithuania Tribune 0

Vladimir Putin’s decision to pardon Nadezhda Savchenko was a purely pragmatic one. Left with no viable alternatives to freeing the Ukrainian pilot, Putin was forced to make a concession that may not sit well with the Russian population, which has come to see Savchenko as a symbol of the “Kiev junta.” […]

Kaliningrad or Karaliaučius: A land fought over for centuries

May 31, 2016 Ceslovas Iskauskas 0

Five years ago, I wrote about the first time I saw the lands of Kaliningrad, known as the Karaliaučius region in Lithuanian. My first impression was depressing. […]

European leaders attack Juncker for decision to meet with Putin in Russia

May 30, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, is facing growing criticism from the US, European countries and Lithuania for agreeing to attend Vladimir Putin‘s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia. […]

Russian ‘countermeasures’ to NATO in Eastern Europe are coming

May 30, 2016 Steven Pifer 0

When NATO leaders gather in Warsaw on July 8 to 9, they will announce steps to beef up the alliance’s conventional force presence on its eastern flank. NATO also will shortly announce that the SM-3 missile defense site in Romania has achieved operational status. These moves will spur the Kremlin, with some fanfare, to announce military “countermeasures.” But those will be steps that Moscow almost certainly intends to take in any case. […]

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Strange bedfellows: Latvian nationalists and ethnic Russians both want to block entrance of more Russians

May 29, 2016 Paul Goble 0

It has often been remarked that politics can make strange bedfellows, bringing together groups that one could not imagine agreeing on anything. That is what has been happening in Latvia, where Latvian nationalists and ethnic-Russian residents of that Baltic country—for quite different reasons—both support restricting any further immigration into Latvia from the Russian Federation. […]

Problems between EU and Russia ‘can be solved’, Putin says

May 26, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to build an “equal and fair dialogue” with the European Union on the eve of his visit to Greece. […]

Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadiya Savchenko released in prisoner swap with Russia

May 25, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian fighter pilot captured by Russia and accused of killing two journalists in Eastern Ukraine, was freed in a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine. […]

Lithuania grants asylum to Russian opposition activist wanted by Kremlin

May 23, 2016 BNS 0

Lithuania has granted asylum to Russian opposition activist Irina Kalmykova who is wanted by the Kremlin. […]

Photo of the week: Kiss me, Donald

May 20, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

A mural in Vilnius showing Russian President Vladimir Putin and US presidential candidate Donald Trump in passionate embrace makes for a fine backdrop for kissing one’s crush. […]

Russia’s counter to missile defence pushes Europe together

May 18, 2016 Pavel K. Baev 0

The ceremony of opening the United States’ missile defense base in Deveselu, Romania, last week (Thursday, May 12), was greeted by a barrage of condemnation and criticism from Russian officials. The next day, President Vladimir Putin turned these denouncements into state policy by defining this deployment of a radar station and SM-3 missile interceptors as a direct threat to Russia and promising to “curtail” it. […]