Russian propaganda

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On Friday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with Vice-President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis to discuss the agenda for the new EU political season, support for Ukraine, the use of frozen Russian assets for rebuilding Ukraine, sanctions against Russia, and Russia's accountability for cr...

Aistė Meidutė

What is this girl thinking after 30 years? This was the question asked in the Russian newspaper "Komsomolskaja Pravda" together with a published photo of a girl in 1990 April during the protest for Lithuanian independence. Both the Baltic Way and independence of Baltic countries still irritate Kreml...

BNS EN

After thousands of Lithuanians responded on Facebook to the Moscow attempts to spread propaganda on post-war guerrilla in three Baltic states, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said that the Russian attempts to interpret history was a constant phenomenon, adding that the civil initiativ...

Russia would defend the rights of its nationals and Russian speakers everywhere, including abroad. Such are the menacing notions emanating from the Kremlin for some time now. Meanwhile what would the ethnic Russians of Lithuania do if Russian tanks and “green men” rolled into Lithuania?

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that he is shocked by the killing of Pavel Sheremet, a prominent Belarusian-born journalist who worked in Ukraine, and expects that law-enforcement bodies will carry out a diligent investigation into his death. To read this article, try a €5.99 mont...

Ludo Segers | the Lithuania Tribune

The student leaders of 1968 could probably not have imagined how their democratic ideas would be high-jacked by a combination of extremists and opponents of democracy exploiting technological progress and social media. Nobody understands the dangers of technology and social media better than dictato...

the Lithuania Tribune

A referendum vote in the Netherlands on whether or not the country should support an EU partnership deal with Ukraine that would lower trade barriers on Wednesday indicated that many of the country's people would be against the agreement.

Andrey Pertsev, Carnegie Moscow Center

Russian television has thrived for months on a diet of victories in Syria. Now that the time has come to spin the news of a withdrawal, the argument is being deployed that it is best to avoid a second Afghanistan. Better still, the exit is being presented as another case of Russia outsmarting the Un...

Vladimiras Laučius, www.lrt.lt

A cloth voodoo doll with tiny button eyes depicting Vladimir Putin; a knife to cut it; a water bowl to drown it; pins and needles to prick it. And it all feels so good. It’s a perfect illustration of what the desks of certain politicians, reporters and analysts might look like who were writing about...