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Ukraine’s social order, characterized by limited access, has been an obstacle in the country’s attempts to create democracy and market economy during its entire post-soviet history. Recent Russian military aggression changed the balance of power within the country and opened a window of opportunity ...
Recent developments indicate that two of Moscow's most loyal allies in the former Soviet periphery, Belarus and Armenia, may be reassessing their ties with Russia in light of the country's standoff with the West.
This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky's visit in Vilnius has triggered a wave of emotional reactions that seem to have overwhelmed the critical thinking faculties and political sense of angry observers. Absolutely scandalous - Khodorkovsky dared not to say that he would immediately give back Crimea if he became Russ...
The Merchants' Guild building on Gedimino Avenue in central Vilnius hosted a conference in late November 2013 which featured Ukraine's opposition players.
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...
In the 1950s, Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash invented a Machiavellian game entitled So Long Suckers. To win, a player had to game, and ultimately betray, his adversaries. Today, as they sit in frozen trenches in what was once aptly named the Wild Fields, it looks as if the soldie...
The new Ukrainian Government has been appointed one year after the Euromaidan revolution began in Kyiv. In November 2013, those who felt mostly betrayed by President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych crowded in the Maidan of Kyiv.
"Europe had been waiting for an engagement party for two years but it was called off a week before," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius on the evening of 28 November 2013 after Ukraine refused to sign the association agreement with the Europ...
Arnoldas Pranckevičius, adviser to the president of the European Parliament, says that while the European Union might seem slow and irresolute when it comes to external challenges like Russia's actions in Ukraine, its adherence to rules and procedures is what makes it a beacon of a different and bet...
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.
The victory of pro-Western forces in Ukraine's general elections shows that the country is bidding goodbye to its past and is ready to take the European path, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says.
Lithuania's ministries have received a letter from the lawyers of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's son Oleksandr, inquiring about the sanctions he is being subjected to.
Nominations were made on Tuesday for the European Parliament’s 2014 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Among them is the Ukrainian EuroMaidan movement, which led to the overthrow of the regime of Viktor Yanukovych, Euractiv reports.
"It's a historic moment," was the reaction when Kiev and Brussels ratified the Ukrainian-EU Association Agreement on Tuesday. However, celebration might be somewhat premature, since Moscow, eager to keep Ukraine within its own sphere of influence and away from the EU, has won significant concessions...
Four Ukrainian soldiers are set to come to Lithuania for rehabilitation after being injured in eastern Ukraine where the country's army is carrying out an operation against pro-Russian insurgents, Lithuanian diplomats confirmed on Wednesday.
These days, the international political scene has been shaken by two processes: the Kremlin’s aggression against Ukraine and the repercussions of the European elections,
Russia’s actions in Ukraine show a cynical, and yet, according to Vladimir Putin’s understanding, the only possible response to regional development tendencies that have been evolving for decades.
