The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Linas Kojala, analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre. Is it not too early to start cooperation between EU and Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), we asked Kojala.
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Snow Meeting, a traditional informal discussion club, organised by the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania since 2008, will be held on 15-16 January in Trakai and Vilnius, the ministry said in a press release.
Lilia Shevtsova, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution, says that Vladimir Putin is a far cry from the shrewd and effective leader everyone, friends and foes alike, take him to be. On the contrary, she says, the Russian president is a shallow mediocrity who has not got a clue how to avert his...
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Linas Kojala, an analyst of the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre. We asked Kojala to talk about directions of the Lithuanian Foreign Policy should concentrate in 2015
Again, this article will not be related to the structure, clans, their interrelations, and KGB basis in Putin’s current regime. This essay is a sequel of the previous piece which aimed to take another glimpse at Putin’s suspicious links with international terrorism.
A lot of Russian spies are operating in Lithuania, so it’s likely that the recently-detained Lithuanian Air Force officer worked for Moscow, says Marius Laurinavičius, an analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre.
In the articles of Putin's Russia series I have repeatedly written about Yevgeny Primakov’s clan. I have described in detail the ongoing battle regarding the implementation of the so-called peace plan in Ukraine, and Primakov’s influence structures both in Russia and in the West. The article about Y...
President Vladimir Putin's end-of-the-year media conference left little space for interpretation about Russia's foreign policy in the face of looming economic recession brought on by plummeting oil prices and Western sanctions.
It was all over the world news when Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė publicly stated that Russia was a “terrorist country”. She later explained that Russia “has attributes of a terrorist state”.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Head of Policy Analysis and Research Division of the Eastern European Studies Center. We asked about the forthcoming Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga, what should we expect?
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.
It is a paradox that European security strategy, prepared in 2003, names closer relations with Russia as one of the most important factors of the EU’s security and prosperity.
Experts from the Eastern Europe Studies Centre (EESC) presented the study "Eastern Partnership (EaP) in a Changing Security Environment: 'Muddling Through' or New Incentives for Reform?". The event took place at the Lithuanian Parliament on 12 November.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Linas Kojala, an analyst of the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre. The think tank has presented a study on the future of the European Union Eastern Partnership programme. the study suggests that the 1+6 EU's partnership formula is dead. We Kojal...
Pro-Western forces have won the general elections in Ukraine and they secured a stable majority necessary to push reforms. But a lot of questions remain on oligarchs' influence on the country's future progress, says analyst Laurynas Kasčiūnas of the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Lithuania.
In the last essay of the series “Putin’s Russia”, I discussed the long efforts of Yevgeny Primakov’s clan to turn Ukraine’s conflict in the direction of conditional peace rather than war by imposing certain conditions and concluding everything with a peace agreement that is so useful to Russia.
Russian forces are withdrawing from the Ukrainian border. Pro-Russian separatists are putting down their arms. There are reports about Russia re-opening some of its markets to Western production. All this has sparked discussions about Moscow backing down from confrontation with the West.
Lithuania torpedoes all constructive international initiatives dedicated to solving the problems in Ukraine - such complaints are heard from the lips of the representatives of Russia with regards to our diplomats in the most influential international organization - the United Nations Security Counci...
In the last essay of the “Putin’s Russia” series we have reviewed the assumptions that suggest that namely Rogozin’s clan was the main architect and executor behind the Ukraine’s events. Therefore it would be natural to explore which Russian government clans are the most active in opposing the aggre...
Even the groups within Russia's ruling elite that used to advocate open war with Ukraine are warming up to the possibility of peace talks, says political analyst Marius Laurinavičius of the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre.
