International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University

19 straipsnių

Ramūnas Vilpišauskas

Discussions about the refugee crisis and how to solve it has moved from the European Union to the United Nations General Assembly, where most national leaders spoke about settling the conflicts in Syria and Iraq and fighting international terrorism. Among the highlights were the speeches and meeting...

Andrzej Duda, who won presidential runoffs in Poland last Sunday, is expected to adopt a tougher anti-Russian stance, but political changes in the neighbouring country might slowed down because his party is now in parliamentary opposition, says Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, director of the Institute of Inte...

Eglė Samoškaitė

After 14 hours of tough talks, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have reached an agreement on what to do about situation in eastern Ukraine, where hostilities have already claimed over 5,400 lives. However, the leaders did not hold a customary joint press conference.

Laurynas Kaščiūnas

I am not a fan of the social-democratic tradition of foreign policy, especially when it comes to perpetually unsuccessful attempts of the Lithuanian left to "turn a new page in relations with Russia" and base their policies towards Poland on promises about name spelling. I dare say, however, that Do...

A sentence for the Kremlin's most famous critic Alexei Navalny was pronounced earlier than everyone expected. This might have been done to deflect protests by Navalny's supporters, who were planning to take to the streets of Moscow in January, but also due to economic pressures, says a Lithuanian po...

Agnia Grigas

The Russian state's control of Russian media is well known and thus, it is not surprising that the Russian media had often been used as Moscow’s tool abroad. The prevalence of the Russian language and the sizeable Russian minorities in Estonia and Latvia facilitate receptiveness to Russian language ...