Shanghai
Foreign affairs

Comparing Chinese and Russian dictatorships: whether Beijing will follow Moscow’s path

The world has been watching for some time now how one of its major powers – the Chinese and Russian dictatorships – is transforming into even more aggressive authoritarian regimes and expanding their influence worldwide. […]

Lockdown and Covid in action. Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels
Politics

The unrestrained pandemic is accompanied by politicians’ bickering and desire to come out on top

There’s probably nothing fundamental that can be done to magically halt Lithuania’s slide into black pandemic autumn and winter. The country will just have to survive and hope that some new, even more, the threatening […]

Gitanas Nausėda
Lithuania

The president’s honeymoon has ended

September 1 has arrived and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports’ negotiations with teachers’ unions have once more entered the heated phase Vytautas Bruveris wrote in lrytas.lt Already a few weeks ago, it turned […]

Viktoras Pranckietis
Lithuania

Bickering with one – join others

So, who the Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis representing while he is in the seat of the Seimas’ Chairperson, Vytautas Bruveris asks in lrytas.lt? Who he is, actually, representing politically, not in the formal sense of […]