Lithuania banned a Russian TV channel, RTR Planeta, last week, becoming the first European Union member state to take this step in an attempt to tackle what it calls Russia’s information war. However, even supporters of the move say that bans alone will not solve the problem. […]
The world has truly entered a new era. Even Russia‘s nuclear blackmail has become such an everyday occurrence that it sometimes passes underappreciated. One concludes thus after last week’s reports in British dailies The Times and The Independent about a meeting between Russian and US generals in March where Russia voiced threats of a nuclear response should NATO continue to deploy forces in the Baltic states. […]
Lithuania has suspended the decisions on granting asylums to Ukrainian citizens, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday. […]
Assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was a shocking wake-up call for many all over the globe. Circumstances were more than eloquent – bullets hit Nemtsov right in front of Kremlin and merely one day before the planned protest march. […]
As Russia wages war in Ukraine, attacking not just military targets but also basic common sense with aggressive misinformation and propaganda campaign, information has become a security issue. Faced with new and quite unprecedented challenges, big media is approaching a moment when it will need to have a Geneva convention moment – get together and agree on a global self-regulation mechanism, says British journalist and author Peter Pomerantsev. […]
In an interview with DELFI, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that, in the event of war, the Baltics lack the strategic advantages held by Ukraine. […]
Vitaly Mansky, a Russian documentary filmmaker, knows exactly when he decided to establish a bolthole outside the Russian Federation. It was the spring of 2014, and Mansky was in Spain for a film festival, watching news in his hotel room. An anchor at one of the Kremlin-controlled news stations reported that Russia’s parliament had allowed President Vladimir Putin to use the army to protect his compatriots in other countries. In other words, they had legalized the annexation of Crimea and provided support for pro-Russian combatants in Eastern Ukraine. […]
Russia is threatening the Ukrainian state, but not the Ukrainian nation, which is being born in front of our eyes, says Lithuanian philosopher and former member of the European Parliament Leonidas Donskis. […]
There is no doubt who gained most from the deal reached in Minsk on February 12th to end the conflict in Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a minimum, a frozen conflict will block Ukraine’s progress towards NATO and the EU; and if fighting resumes, the terms of the ceasefire will leave Ukrainian forces in a weaker position than now. […]
The opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats political group in the Lithuanian Seimas has proposed a resolution that would commit the Lithuanian parliament to seeking prosecution of people responsible for attacks on civilians in Ukraine in the Hague Tribunal. […]
It is tempting to slip into a spiral of sensationalism when describing the concurrent trends in Belarus’s foreign relations and national aspirations, even though—if history is any guide—these trends may be reversed as abruptly as they started. So far, however, tensions have been on the rise along Belarus’s eastern flank; whereas, there has been steady improvement in Belarus’s relations with the West. According to the assessment of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, this has been the case since the very beginning of 2014. […]
Professor Kęstutis Girnius has once again decided on DELFI to calm everyone down by saying there is no real danger of Russian aggression against Lithuania. I once again risk becoming what Mr. Girnius calls a “professional Cassandra” by constantly scaring people with the Russian threat. […]
The war in Ukraine is a consequence of Europe having failed to draw lessons from the 2008 war in Georgia, when a normal dialogue with Russia was resumed less than two months after the fighting, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. […]
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