US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he would work with NATO allies if he wins the White House, apparently backing down from his earlier suggestions the United States might not meets its obligations to NATO allies.
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It was a summit of modest expectations and modest results for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Warsaw on July 8–9.
With tensions between Moscow and NATO at its worst since the end of the Cold War, it is now more important than ever that each side understand one another and maintain channels of serious communication, argues Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center.
Lithuanian prosecutors have opened an investigation into anti-gay statements posted in comment sections of Lithuanian online newspapers in the wake of the deadly attack in a night club in Orlando, Florida.
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Deborah McCarthy has completed her tenure as United States ambassador to Lithuania. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
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Albinas Januška, Lithuanian politician, one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party, a signatory of the Lithuanian Independence Act and once the ultimate éminence grise, gives a scathing analysis of the country's domestic politics and the ills affecting the European Union.
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If Republican candidate Donald Trump is elected as the next president of the United States, it would be bad news for Lithuania, says political science professor Šarunas Liekis. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Lithuania has confidence in the United States regardless of who its next president is, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that, if he were elected president, the United States might not come to the defence of the Baltic states if they were attacked by Russia.
A failed military coup in Turkey has ushered a massive purging campaign in the country. Lithuanian Ambassador in Ankara Audrius Bruzga says it is yet too early to tell what effects it will have in Turkey. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
The European Union once had great ambitions to spread democracy in its immediate neighbourhood, but now it has to make do with more pragmatic goals, says political scientist Ramūnas Vilpišauskas.
The works of Vilnius-born Jewish painter David Labkovski that were recently presented in Los Angeles could serve as a good introduction to teaching about the Holocaust in US schools, researchers say.
Colonel Remigijus Baltrėnas has become Lithuania's new military intelligence chief, replacing Colonel Alvydas Šiuparis who is leaving for the United States to take up his new post as defence attaché. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
The NATO summit in Warsaw has been lauded as historical, a breaking point that gave the Baltic states and Poland a reason to celebrate and stop fearing potential aggression from Russia.
