Lately, we no longer gear arguments amongst Lithuanian political parties over larger strategic questions: they agree on energy, defence, they don’t argue over the new Labour Code. Political scientist Mažvydas Jastramskis didn’t criticize these tendencies: […]
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 of the presidents of the United States and Russia. […]
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 International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University. […]
Following the UK Conservatives’ victory in Thursday’s general elections, Prime Minister David Cameron will have to keep his promise to call a referendum on the country’s EU membership, and the immigration policy is likely to be tightened, Lithuanian political scientists say. […]
While Ukraine‘s government forces are fighting pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Donbass region, Western leaders are engaging in a tense diplomacy game with Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]
International relations expert Raimundas Lopata says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently engaging in the classic chicken game with the West. […]
Historical memory has a strong impact on the cohesion of political society. The historical memory of any given society is affected by a whole range of factors, such as the methodology and content of history teaching at school, the creation of various memorials and alternative sources of information about the past. Most of these factors depend on the political sphere and are a direct consequence of political or administrative decisions. In short, a consequence of state history policy. […]
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 Dovilė Jakniūnaitė’s criticism of Lithuania’s foreign policy in 2014 is unfounded. […]
What could we say about Lithuanian foreign policy last year? Most would likely agree that it was visible, audible and active. These words define the form very well, but what could we say about the content? […]
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 political scientist. […]
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 media. […]
Belarus has always been and will remain Russia‘s military ally, despite Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko‘s recent statements about Russia’s continuing aggression in Ukraine, says Vytis Jurkonis, a lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University. […]
United States President Barack Obama, a Democrat, will be constrained in his internal policies after the Republican Party took control of the Senate, a Lithuanian political expert says, adding that he will nonetheless continue deciding on key foreign policy issues. […]
Lithuanian residents do not trust information aired on Russian-language TV channels but are against any restrictions on their broadcasts, a recent survey has shown. The results show that 27 percent of respondents believe broadcast of Russian TV channels should be restricted, and 36 percent are against. The remaining respondents did not have a strong opinion on the issue.
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