Vytautas Magnus University

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Across cultures and landscapes, the swamp spells crisis. It is bad nature that undoes the elementary order by mixing up soil, air, and water into a bottomless formlessness resistant to being mapped and depicted. Home only to vermin, nothing can be built or cultivated in its chaotic fecundity, which ...

Dr. Alpo Rusi

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...

Robert van Voren, Director of the Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development at Vytautas Magnus University

There is no way one can pretend life has not changed. Everywhere across the globe life has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The economy is partially shutdown, and air travel has almost come to a complete standstill. Holiday resorts that by now should be filling with tourists stand empty, and ...