EN.DELFI TV by the Lithuania Tribune spoke to Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, the First Deputy Chairwoman of Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Ukrainian Parliament. We spoke about what Ukraine is ready and eager to do in order to solve the crisis and bring peace to Ukraine. What are the things that Ki...
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The fourth Eastern Partnership Summit was held in Riga on 21-22 May 2015. The joint Declaration of the Riga Summit did not reaffirm either the European perspective of the Eastern European Partnership countries consistently demonstrating the best performance or the political support to Georgia and Uk...
The European Parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of a report drafted by Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis on the European Union's relations with Russia.
The European Parliament opened discussions about a report on EU-Russia relations, drafted by Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis, on Tuesday. Some MEPs called for separating the Russian society and the country's government while others accused Europe of expansionism.
Georgia's ambassador to Lithuania, Khatuna Salukvadze, says that the Eastern Partnership summit to be held in Riga on 21 May cannot end in awkward silence instead of offering clear answers.
Deividas Šlekys, military expert and lecturer at Vilnius University, discusses the nature of warfare and how it has transformed under liberal democracy.
Lithuania banned a Russian TV channel, RTR Planeta, last week, becoming the first European Union member state to take this step in an attempt to tackle what it calls Russia's information war. However, even supporters of the move say that bans alone will not solve the problem.
The world has truly entered a new era. Even Russia's nuclear blackmail has become such an everyday occurrence that it sometimes passes underappreciated. One concludes thus after last week's reports in British dailies The Times and The Independent about a meeting between Russian and US generals in Ma...
Lithuania has suspended the decisions on granting asylums to Ukrainian citizens, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday.
Assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was a shocking wake-up call for many all over the globe. Circumstances were more than eloquent – bullets hit Nemtsov right in front of Kremlin and merely one day before the planned protest march.
If all European countries had the same position on the Ukrainian-Russian conflict as Lithuania, this "banditism" would have been prevented, says Mustafa Dzhemilev, leader of Crimean Tatars and a member of the Ukrainian parliament.
As Russia wages war in Ukraine, attacking not just military targets but also basic common sense with aggressive misinformation and propaganda campaign, information has become a security issue. Faced with new and quite unprecedented challenges, big media is approaching a moment when it will need to h...
In an interview with DELFI, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that, in the event of war, the Baltics lack the strategic advantages held by Ukraine.
The West and Ukraine have lost the war against Russia – this could sum up the results of the second Minsk agreement. How and why did this happen and what are the consequences?
Lithuanian readers have been recently presented with a book by American journalist Gregory Feifer, Russians: The People behind the Power. In it, Feifer reflects on modern Russia and the people that continue to puzzle outsiders.
Vitaly Mansky, a Russian documentary filmmaker, knows exactly when he decided to establish a bolthole outside the Russian Federation. It was the spring of 2014, and Mansky was in Spain for a film festival, watching news in his hotel room. An anchor at one of the Kremlin-controlled news stations repo...
Russia is threatening the Ukrainian state, but not the Ukrainian nation, which is being born in front of our eyes, says Lithuanian philosopher and former member of the European Parliament Leonidas Donskis.
There is no doubt who gained most from the deal reached in Minsk on February 12th to end the conflict in Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a minimum, a frozen conflict will block Ukraine’s progress towards NATO and the EU; and if fighting resumes, the terms of the ceasefire will leave Uk...
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Linas Kojala, Analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Center. What is the outcome of the negotiation for Ukraine, we asked Kojala.
120s: Poroshenko: No military solution to Ukraine crisis, Resignation over Soviet sculptures, More band news for Russia, Robo-dog to carry out rescue missions.