Lithuanians are in favour of universal conscription despite the ongoing debate on mandatory military service among politicians, a recent survey finds.
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A survey carried out by Vilnius University shows that around 30% of Lithuanians are ready to take up arms to defend Lithuania, while 60% are prepared to contribute to defence in other ways.
On Wednesday, 14 June, security and international relations experts from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Nordic and Central European countries gathered in Vilnius to discuss the future of Europe’s security architecture, the Foreign Ministry said in a press release.
Since the 24th of February, the war in Ukraine raised and highlighted multiple questions – how to define the real scope and participants of a shifting hybrid war, and especially, what could be the consequences on broader international relations? Who are the key actors of this situation?
Democratic candidate Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential election would be more favorable to Lithuania, political scientists have told BNS, adding, however, that it's too soon to speak about any potential winner.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the leading opposition candidate in Belarus' presidential election, fled her country over safety concerns, a Lithuanian political scientists said on Tuesday, noting that Vilnius was a logical choice for her because of its history of hosting Belarusian opposition activists and...
Carried out in 2018-2019, the Analysis of Diversity and Equal Opportunities in Vilnius University (VU) revealed that the number of women working at VU exceeded that of men by 12%. However, the share of female professors was twice as small as that of their male counterparts (64 percent men and 36 per...
The United States hopes to supply gas to Belarus via the Klaipeda-based LNG terminal, the country's new Ambassador to Lithuania Robert Gilchrist says.
Ukraine's new President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday called a snap parliamentary election to give a favorable power access to the Verkhovna Rada and avoid any "sticks in his wheels" from the opposition side, Lithuanian political scientists say.
The Lithuanian-Polish relations are quite normal and do not need to be normalized, says Vilnius University lecturer Marijuš Antanovič. Instead, he adds, they need a renewal, because in their current situation they are best described as 'Cold Peace'.
Georgia will not and cannot be a NATO member for a long long time to come. This has been obvious. Statements of Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump and his close ally, former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich on Washington’s commitments to defend NATO states from a Russian...
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 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.
A week ago, we saw the first opinion polls conducted after the launch of the official election campaign. Although things can change dramatically over the coming six months before October's general elections, looking at "ground zero" situation can tell us much about how the campaign may develop and w...
One year after the first-ever direct mayoral elections in Lithuania, public trust in municipal authorities have grown, but the systemic problems are programmed into the local governments, experts say.
The incidents in the Baltic Sea this week where Russian jets buzzed an American warship were widely reported in the Western media and Lithuania should use the occasion to push for more military support from its NATO allies, according to a Lithuanian analyst.
