NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that in 2022, when Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the world became more dangerous for NATO allies as well. However, according to him, NATO took action – activated its defence plans and sent more troops to the east of the Allianc...
Cold War
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Lithuania must reconsider its security concept as soon as possible in response to dramatic developments in the international arena, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis. The global structure created after the Cold War is crumbling right in our very eyes and yet Lithuania still avo...
Is there opposition in Russia? Do Russian people support the war? Are liberal ideas popular only in Moscow and a few other large cities: myth or reality? Why did Putin’s regime decide to kill Nemtsov and imprison Navalny? You will hear answers to these and many other questions in Delfi’s interview w...
Finland faced a moment of truth on February 24, 2022. In case Ukraine’s defense would have collapsed, Finland’s security policy of non-alignment would have been worth of nothing. The Finnish leaders had to make a choice almost by overnight either to give up non-alignment or to remain increasingly un...
Vaizdo įrašas, kuriame rodoma, kaip automobilis važiuoja požeminių tunelių kompleksu buvo klaidingai susietas su po visa Ukraina besidriekiančiu tunelių tinklu, neva jungiančiu šią šalį su likusiu pasauliu. Viename „Facebook“ pasidalinime klaidinantis įrašas buvo peržiūrėtas daugiau nei tūkstantį ka...
NATO's Defender Europe 2020 exercise, scheduled for May in Eastern Europe, was set to become the Alliance's largest exercise on the continent since the Cold War, with the United States and other NATO partners planning to deploy about 37,000 soldiers. Since September last year, Debunk EU has recorded...
„Rusija be Putino“ yra Rusijos opozicijos šūkis. Dauguma apžvalgininkų Vakaruose dar tą pačią klaidą, redukuodami šį agresijos ir represijų kokteilį iki režimo centrinio veikėjo.
Joanna Kulig iš Lenkijos ir Marcellas Fontė iš Italijos karūnuoti Europos Metų aktoriais. Per Europos kino apdovanojimų ceremoniją Sevilijoje J. Kulig trofėjus skirtas už vaidmenį Pawelo Pawlikowskio meilės dramoje „Šaltasis karas“ („Cold War“).
"Если учесть, как часто противники Путина умирали насильственной смертью, то Михаил Ходорковский - когда-то богатейший россиянин, имевший 15 млрд долларов, - выглядит поразительно расслабленным?, - пишет в статье, опубликованной Sunday Times Питер Конради.
Edward Lucas, the former senior editor of the Economist, visited Vilnius on January 10th — once again, should we say. He lived in Lithuania in the Nineties and is such a frequent commentator and visitor in Lithuania that he even speaks the language a bit. His work has been revolving around Russia fo...
Lithuanian diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas, the European Union's (EU) ambassador to Russia, says he will shortly end his diplomatic service in Moscow and engage in analytical work and politics upon return to Lithuania, listing the demographic crisis as the key challenge in his home country.
In her congratulatory message to the German-led NATO battalion in Lithuania, Germany's Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday pledged to defend Lithuania's freedom and independence.
Central and Eastern European politicians have urged United States President-Elect Donald Trump to stop making concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he could view the steps as weaknesses and undertake provocations against the Baltic states and Poland.
The United States have always been the guarantee of democracy, peace and freedom, therefore, it is important that it stays the leader of the global security efforts, says Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday assured the Baltic states that the most important thing for the Alliance was to deter, not to copy Russian actions amid the rising tensions between the West and Moscow over its increased military activity in the Baltic Sea region.
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.
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.