Ukraine still lacks weapons to win the war against Russia whereas Western politicians lack leadership to help the country at war as they prefer to appease their voters, Russian opposition activists and experts have said.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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Russian oligarch-turned-dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky says that a fall of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime is possible at any time.
The fifth Vilnius Russia Forum will be held in the Lithuanian southern town of Trakai on 24-25 May, bringing together more than 100 politicians, civil society representatives, human rights defenders, academicians, journalists from Russia, Lithuania, and other Western countries. They will discuss the...
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Sunday met with Mikhail Khodorkovski, one of Russia's opposition leaders and the founder of the Open Russia movement.
The Russian presidential election will take place in a month, but the winner is already clear. The only candidate capable of receiving wider support from voters, Alexey Navalny, has been banned from registering as a candidate due to his criminal record, stemming from a fraud conviction he views as i...
Russian opposition figures say that they want to change Russia, rather than replace its leaders.
More than 100 politicians, civil society activists, academicians and journalists from various countries are expected to attend the fourth Vilnius Russia Forum, a two-day event starting in the Lithuanian capital on Thursday.
More than 100 politicians, civil society activists, academicians and journalists from various countries are expected to attend the fourth Vilnius Russia Forum to be held in the Lithuanian capital this week, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
The results of the elections to the Russian Duma, which took place on 18th September, showed that voters have an apathetic attitude towards the situation in the country, and do not cultivate any warm feelings for the ruling United Russia Party. President Vladimir Putin‘s party secured a win, yet vot...
Vladimir Putin’s decision to pardon Nadezhda Savchenko was a purely pragmatic one. Left with no viable alternatives to freeing the Ukrainian pilot, Putin was forced to make a concession that may not sit well with the Russian population, which has come to see Savchenko as a symbol of the “Kiev junta....
Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris has been appointed to the council of the international Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom.
It is easy to list what Russia needs to put in place for its economy to grow successfully over the long-term and for its citizens to improve their lives: secure property rights, protection for investors, reliable commercial courts and significantly reduced volumes of regulation. Instead of stranglin...
I decided to dedicate one more essay in the "Putin's Russia" series to Russian oligarchs because of one piece of news that attracted much less attention in Lithuania and internationally than it warranted: the former foreign minister of Sweden and one of the fiercest critics of President Valdimir Put...
Russian opposition activist and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza was rushed to hospital in Moscow on Wednesday after suddenly losing consciousness. Doctors initially suspected poisoning.
I purposefully chose a title for my piece to evoke the notorious phrase from 1949 by the then US Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal: "The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming. They’re right around. I’ve seen Russian soldiers."
The Lithuania Tribune/EN.DELFI TV would like to present you with Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s take on Crimea’s annexation and its future. Mr. Khodorkovsky’s was asked about it after he’s key note address to the audience of the Snow Meeting and the Vilnius Forum of Intellectuals. The event took place on Ja...
The Lithuania Tribune/EN.DELFI TV would like to present you with Andrey Illarionov’s confrontation with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. A. Illarionov asked Khodorkovsky five questions after his key note address to the audience of the Snow Meeting and the Vilnius Forum of Intellectuals. The event took place on...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky's speech in Vilnius last week drew considerable controversy, with some saying his suggestions of easing economic sanctions on Russia played right into Vladimir Putin's interests, while others noting Khodorkovsky's sober and measured reasoning. The following is a full transcript ...
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).
