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What authority remains: do the “Farmers” still obey Karbauskis?

Farmer leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has for a long time been perceived as a politician with a firm hand, whose orders…

5 years ago
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Urging to adjust direct mayor elections: long time mayors entrenching

Political scientists are urging to review the regulations of the direct mayor elections because the aim to prevent a single…

6 years ago
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Founding and operation conditions for civic electoral committees should be more similar to parties’ – political scientist

With a third more civic electoral committees aiming to participate in the municipal elections than during the last, Seimas Speaker…

6 years ago
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Sun sets on traditional parties

Political parties do not have a future because they are structures from a past stage, political scientist Lauras Bielinis tells…

6 years ago
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Disrespect to the law and other games

Once upon a time, but in a serious text, I read how during the so-called warming period in the Soviet…

6 years ago
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D. Grybauskaitė “burned her fingers”: has the president shed the mask of infallibility?

"We have hampered the oligarchic occupation of the democratic system, though we painfully burned our fingers. Me included," President D.…

6 years ago
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Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė. Grybauskaitė‘s washing

On the occasion of the cabinet's first year, President Dalia Grybauskaitė handed it a gift wrapped in a newspaper –…

7 years ago
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V. Pranckietis – people understand everything correctly, we have to speak the truth

Even summer has not brought the Farmer and Greens respite. The party chairman was once more caught with Greta Kildišienė.…

7 years ago
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Opposition against Karbauskis among the “Farmers”?

Could the Seimas Committee of Culture and "Farmer" group prefect Ramūnas Karbauskis be forced out of all important posts due…

7 years ago
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What prevents opposition to R. Karbauskis in Seimas?

The sort of cooperation found between the Liberal Movement (LS) and Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) during the…

8 years ago
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U-turn by president may make her election target, say analysts

President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s U-turn on establishing a new agency to tackle suicide, alcoholism and violence in families in Lithuania may…

9 years ago
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Opinion: Results of Russian bombings in Syria

One month after Russia got itself involved into the Syrian war, there is little doubt that Moscow’s actions, aimed at…

9 years ago
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Opinion: Putin will not stop on his own

Vladimir Putin will not stop by himself, he needs to be stopped. And if he has no intention of stopping,…

10 years ago
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Opinion: Why is Russia raising stakes in east Ukraine?

Why have we seen an intensification of military action in eastern Ukraine? Government forces report that Russian troops are pushing…

10 years ago
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Over 40 percent of Lithuanians positive about government’s performance

Around 41 percent of Lithuanians were more or less positive about the government’s performance in October, up 4.6 percentage points…

10 years ago
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Opinion: What is Putin going to do next?

How should we evaluate the current phase of Russia’s war against Ukraine? Is Vladimir Putin content with the results of…

10 years ago