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United States Vice-President Joe Biden says his recent visit to Latvia has given him the impression that the Baltic states are "scared to death" of Russia and fear the possibility of Donald Trump being elected as the next US president.

Georgia will not and cannot be a NATO member for a long long time to come. This has been obvious. Statements of Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump and his close ally, former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich on Washington’s commitments to defend NATO states from a Russian...

In her annual address on Thursday, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė did not put the blame for the country's problems solely on the government and managed to maintain balance and not show her support for any political group in the run-up to the general elections, a political analyst said.

Lithuanian politicians and political experts discussed the US presidential elections on Wednesday, including Hillary Clinton's apparent victory in the Democratic primaries as well as Donald Trump's Republican candidacy.

British voters are hitting the polls in six weeks to decide whether their country should stay or leave the European Union. The effects of Brexit would be felt throughout the 28-country block, so the EU and countries like Lithuania should also unobtrusively contribute to the debate in Britain, Lithua...

As Britain is nearing a crucial vote on continuing its membership in the EU, Lithuanian experts say Brexit would have far-reaching effects on the entire block.

The latest annual report from the State Security Department (VSD), which contains a number of proposals to limit free speech, shows that siege mentality and remnants of Soviet thinking are still widespread in Lithuania.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius claims that the teachers' trade unions on strike in Lithuania could have been influenced or inspired by Russia has attracted considerable attention. When describing how some members of the teachers' trade unions attended certain conferences in Russia, the prime mi...

Germany is having second thoughts about welcoming refugees and this will have effects throughout Europe, says Lithuanian political scientist Kęstutis Girnius.

Lithuania has a free press but is prone to one-sided reporting and being gripped by a herd mentality, says a leading analyst.

There had been no doubt that Russia would respond vehemently to the downing of its military plane and would do everything to punish Turkey. Moscow did not waste any time introducing various economic sanctions and launching a fierce anti-Turkish propaganda campaign.

Lithuanian political scientists, journalists and politicians comment on the coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris which left at least 129 people dead.

Kęstutis Girnius, associate professor at Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science, says Russia's intervention in Syria means that Moscow does not have any plans to attack Lithuania or other Baltic states.

On Tuesday, the European Union's (EU) interior ministers accepted a plan to redistribute 160,000 refugees that had come to Europe. Similar talks one week earlier failed, because several Central-Eastern European countries opposed the scheme. Lithuania has already committed itself to accepting 1,105 r...

The current rush of refugees is arguably the greatest challenge for the European Union throughout its history. One should hope that the crisis can be solved without endangering the overall European project.