Lilia Shevtsova

The Kremlin can only have an effect on Lithuania's society, if it is shaken by internal problems, says Lilia Shevtsova, political scientist and analyst at the international policy institute Chatham House.

The current global situation is much more dangerous than it was during the Cold War because the rules that existed then are absent now, and Russia is attempting to force a directionless West to play according to its rules according a leading analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center.

Putin has already done everything that Western observers had previously said he wouldn't dare and if he's still in power in five years, the world is in deep trouble, according to Russian opposition figure Garry Kasparov.

“I would compare Putin to the Roman leaders in the time of Roman Empire’s agony. While Caesar’s Rome was the Rome of ascendancy, Putin’s Rome is the one of decay. The regime in Russia shows all signs of agony,” says Kremlinologist Lilia Shevtsova.

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV presents Lilia Shevtsova's take on the current regime in Kremlin. Shevtsova spoke during a panel discussion at the Snow Meeting and the Vilnius Forum of Intellectuals, which took place on 16 January in Vilnius. Lilia Shevtsova is a Senior Fellow, Brookings Institu...

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, USA and Associate Fellow, Chatham House, UK. Do you think that Russian population’s support towards Putin’s regime is genuine, we asked Shevtsova.

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, USA and Associate Fellow, Chatham House, UK. What are the strengths and weaknesses of European Union Eastern Partnership Policy and what we could do to make it work better, we asked Shevtsova.

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, USA and Associate Fellow, Chatham House, UK. Do you think that sanctions against the Putin’s regime are working, we asked Shevtsova.

The Snow Meeting is a highlight of the European security calendar. It is like Davos, except that it is smaller and full of people who really know what is going on (Davos is full of people who would like to know what is going on).

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, USA and Associate Fellow, Chatham House, UK. Remembering protests in Moscow in January 1991 as a response to Soviet’s violence in Vilnius, Lithuania, do you think that today those people regret suppor...

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized another big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by none other than Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He was introduced by liberal Lithuan...

The Merchants' Guild building on Gedimino Avenue in central Vilnius hosted a conference in late November 2013 which featured Ukraine's opposition players.

The traditional informal Snow Meeting and the Vilnius Forum of Intellectuals began on 15 January. At the opening of the Forum, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius stressed the importance of dialogue with the Russian society.

Snow Meeting, a traditional informal discussion club, organised by the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania since 2008, will be held on 15-16 January in Trakai and Vilnius, the ministry said in a press release.

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...