Riga Conference
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From 29–30 September, the National Library of Latvia in Rīga will host the annual international forum called The Rīga Conference 2017, which is dedicated to foreign policy and security matters. The conference is organised by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation in cooperation with the Ministry of ...
If during The Rīga Conference 2015 we began witnessing Kremlin’s adventure in Syria, today we observe casualties and the number deaths of this escapade. During the last 12 months, the world has beheld terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, aggression of Russian football fans during Euro-2016 in Fr...
Every year Latvia hosts what is called The Riga Conference. This year was no different. Held in the National Library across the river from the Old Town, invited delegates from the world of diplomacy, think tanks, academia, the military, and political life, gathered to listen and take part in a serie...
The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Andrei Illarionov, former advisor to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Centre for Global Liberty and Transparency, who came to the Riga Conference 2014. Bloodshed like the one in Ukraine will continue as long as Russia remains ...
The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Dzianis Melyantsou, senior analyst at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies at the Riga Conference 20114. Asked about Belarus's plans of joining the Russian-led Eurasian Union, the researcher said that the Belarusian population as a whole was in favour of join...
The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Dzianis Melyantsou, Senior Analyst at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, who came to the Riga Conference 2014. Belarusians are inclined to support Russia’s actions in Ukraine, he says, but since the Belarusian society still has a very deep trauma from Worl...
At the Riga Conference 2014, The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Dr Nadezhda Arbatova, Head of the Department of European Political Studies at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Science. We asked about Moscow's Eurasian project and its future. According to Arb...
The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Andrei Illarionov, former advisor to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Centre for Global Liberty and Transparency, who came to the Riga Conference 2014. According to Illarionov, the Kremlin's ambitions are growing since they do...
At the Riga Conference 2014, The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Dr Nadezhda Arbatova, head of the Department of European Political Studies at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Science. She is relatively optimistic about the outcome of this crisis, Arbatova s...
People in the Baltic states cannot feel secure. Russian President Vladimir Putin has a plan he has been working on for over a decade. So says former adviser to President Putin, Andrey Illarionov.
The Lithuania Tribune spoke with Fedor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs, at the Riga Conference 2014. Lukyanov says that the model of the post-Cold War period has been destroyed regardless of what is going to happen in Ukraine next. Russia and the West will need to find a comple...
The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Andrey Illarionov, former advisor to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Centre for Global Liberty and Transparency, who came to the Riga Conference 2014. Russian actions in Ukraine are aggression pure and simple and should be ca...
The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Dzianis Melyantsou, senior analyst at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies at the Riga Conference 2014. We asked Mr Melyantsou what should we make of the fact that President Lukashenko delivered a public speech in Belarusian rather than Russian. "The main mes...
The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Mr Tengiz Pkhaladze, Advisor to the President of Georgia – Foreign Affairs Secretary, at the Riga Conference 2014. The situation in the Sough Caucasus has not changed much in the past year, even though there were some skirmishes between Armenian and Azeri armies two mo...
The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Tengiz Pkhaladze, advisor to the President of Georgia – Foreign Affairs Secretary, at the Riga Conference 2014. Mr Pkhaladze told us how Georgia’s NATO membership prospects have changed over the last year and especially after the NATO Summit in Wales.
An interview with Hans Luik, an Estonian media tycoon and the main shareholder of DELFI, a major online news portal in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Second day of the annual forum Rīga Conference 2014 was filled with lively debate and exchange of opinions among speakers of panel discussions, bringing together high-level foreign security and foreign policy experts, diplomats, politicians, academics, businessmen and journalists.
The first day of the annual foreign policy and security forum Rīga Conference 2014 has concluded with the lively discussions about the challenges and opportunities of the global and regional economy, security threats and relations with Russia.
