17 months of Ukraine’s resistance: Russia-Ukraine war in numbers
We write about the number of victims, deportations, demining, environmental security, migration, education, culture and media during the...
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GEOPOLITICS
- Jul 7
Prigozhin and glossing over Russian fragility and cracks in military power
While Russia’s war against Ukraine is ongoing, it has been an extraordinary few days inside Russia, with the weekend mutiny by Yevgeny...
- Jun 15
Kremlin lies on child deportation blown up by the International Criminal Court
For over a year, Russian state-controlled outlets and pro-Kremlin pundits have been trying to convince themselves and the world that the...
- Jun 6
NATO aspirant country blames NATO for Russia’s war on Ukraine
Georgia wants to join the military alliance and the EU, but prime minister’s new remarks won’t go down well. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
- May 12
Kremlin media accused Lithuania planning a terrorist act at the Kaliningrad border on May 9th
May 9th, Kremlin Every year in Russia, May 9th is celebrated as "Victory Day" with elaborate ceremonies. However, in Kremlin media, it...
- May 5
NATO should offer Ukraine a membership plan now
While the coalition of allies and partners supporting Ukraine has been highly effective in providing operational support, it has not had...
- Apr 10
Russia Is Winning in Georgia. America Needs to Get Tough on Tbilisi
As the United States and its NATO allies are focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, Russia’s efforts to bring...
- Mar 15
The Kremlin and Georgian Dream spread similar narratives about protests in Georgia
Narratives attempt to discredit protesters, blame the West for public dissent. Participants protest against a draft law on “foreign...
- Jan 25
A plan for Russia (and Belarus): Marshall vs. Martial? Hint: not a Marshall plan
The Russian war in Ukraine is far from being over, but perhaps it is a natural time to think about what will happen after the Russian...
- Jan 23
How Germany's ‘Doctor No’ disrupted allied unity on tanks for Ukraine
Allied anger at Germany mounts as Chancellor Olaf Scholz keeps shifting his demands for arming Ukraine with main battle tanks. In the...
- Jan 17
How the Hungarian Regime Supports Russian Aggression in Ukraine
Source: Visegrad Insight The Hungarian regime does not hide its political partnership with Russia, and in 2022 the state also announced...
- Jan 10
Calls for Unconditional Peace in Ukraine: Should We Trust Them?
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, propositions and demands for peace have become an integral part of daily...
- Dec 16, 2022
Soviet Economic Integration or Industrial Colonialism?
Analysis Overcoming the political and cultural Soviet-imperial legacy is an urgent need for Ukraine. For a long time, its desire for...
- Dec 13, 2022
THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM: FROM THE BALTIC TO THE BLACK SEA
Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be...
- Dec 9, 2022
What this wave of protests means for the future of the Chinese Communist Party
They’re spreading like wildfire. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) restrictive policies to limit COVID-19 have sparked a wave of...
- Nov 30, 2022
Drone sales to Russia spark a debate in Iran
The revelation that Iran has sold drones to Russia that the latter is now using to attack Ukraine has touched off a debate about whether...
- Nov 28, 2022
Putin’s peace ploy is a ruse to rearm
With Russia now clearly losing the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is seeking a return to the negotiating table. For more than a month,...
- Nov 24, 2022
How will the next Congress affect US policy on Ukraine, China, the economy, and more?
Source: The Atlantic Council Get ready for a divided government on a knife’s edge. Following the midterm elections, Democrats will hold...
- Nov 18, 2022
FROM DUSK TO DAWN
A documentary film From Dusk to Dawn (50 minutes), directed by Agnieszka Ostrowska, CIR's programme director, tells the story of...
- Nov 15, 2022
Andrius Kubilius. The Tragedy of Russia
Andrius Kubilius, personal photo It is not popular these days to speak with pity about Russia and its people. It is much more usual to...
- Nov 10, 2022
Putin’s failing Ukraine invasion proves Russia is no superpower
For centuries, Russia has seen itself as one of the world’s great powers. This superpower status was somewhat sullied by the humiliations...
- Oct 24, 2022
„Human Life Has No Value There“: Baltic Counterintelligence Officers About Russian Cruelty
The Estonian weekly Eesti Ekspress interviewed the heads and several employees of Estonia’s, Latvia’s, and Lithuania’s state security...
- Oct 17, 2022
No, Russia’s airstrike escalation is not retaliation for the Crimean Bridge
Russia fired more than 80 missiles and launched at least 24 kamikaze drones at civilian targets across Ukraine on October 10. The latest...
- Sep 9, 2022
Economic Sanctions in the Discourse of Pro-Kremlin Messengers
In the context of invasion to Ukraine, narratives about the Western sanctions against Russia are an even more prevalent topic than ever -...
- Sep 2, 2022
Pro-Kremlin messengers use decontextualized report to spread claims of Ukrainian war crimes
In Lithuania, the frontline of the Russia-Ukraine war has become the focus for pro-Kremlin messengers with allegations of Ukrainian war...
- Aug 22, 2022
Visa solidarity: Baltic states don’t want Russian tourists
Even before the surge of those fleeing after Belarus’ rigged 2020 election, Lithuania had been providing shelter for Russian and...
- Aug 16, 2022
Chinese Influence in Lithuania
This report is a part of #CCPinCEE, a series of reports published by the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) analysing Chinese...
- Aug 12, 2022
The free world can’t allow Taiwan to become a second Ukraine
A crumbling global security architecture brings a chilling prospect of the world order where smaller countries can be expendable. US...
- Jul 23, 2022
Free Nations of Russia calls for independence
The well-being, prosperity and future of 144 million people living in Russia are falling down about our ears. Such are the results of the...
- Jul 11, 2022
Ukraine. Next steps: starting from rebuild, reforms, integration and other steps
It has been more than 130 days since Russia’s war against Ukraine began. Ukraine has shown that it is able to defend itself and win the...
- Jul 7, 2022
Analysis of the conversation between E. Macron and V. Putin
Analysis of the conversation between E. Macron and V. Putin - Introduction to the analysis of the manner in which Paris conducts its...
- Jun 15, 2022
A Fortified Eastern Flank to Face Down Putin
Franco-German efforts to seek a ceasefire in Ukraine have obscured an emerging consensus among NATO’s frontline states — there can be no...
- Jun 6, 2022
Three months of war and why one mustn’t get tired of it
It’s been 90 days since russia’s invasion in Ukraine. An invasion which was meant to be over in 3 days. This war has actually been going...
- May 25, 2022
Finland and Sweden joining NATO and other successes of the russian “special operation”
On May 18th Finland and Sweden had submitted their official applications to join NATO. Earlier these countries had maintained the course...
- May 13, 2022
National Threat Assessment by the State Security Department of the Republic of Lithuania
We are presenting the seventh edition of the National Threat Assessment prepared by the State Security Department of the Republic of...
- May 11, 2022
War with an empire and russian imperial mindset
This war can have many names. War of russia against Ukraine, war of barbarians against civilization, war between darkness and light to...
- May 9, 2022
Kremlin media on the ban of Victory Day: the Baltic States are mental degenerates
Celebration of May 9th, or the Victory Day, has been an important date in Soviet Union, but in the past decades it became a...
- May 8, 2022
8 May For Freedom
#8Not9 #8ForFreedom #8MayForFreedom Nikita Titov On May 8th all of the free world is commemorating the victims of The Second World War...
- May 4, 2022
The Smart Power of Lithuanian Foreign Policy
Whether by supporting a distant Taiwan and so picking a diplomatic spat with China (relative populations less than 3m versus 1,400m), or...
- Apr 29, 2022
Two months of war
April 24th is exactly 2 months since Russia had begun its full-scale invasion into Ukraine. This date coincided with the celebration of...
- Apr 26, 2022
I am an Untermensch: Ukrainian writer responds to Russia’s “Nazi manifesto”
On 3 April, Russia’s state RIA Novosti published an piece which Ukrainians termed Russia’s Nazi manifesto. Ukrainian writer Ostap...
- Apr 22, 2022
A borsch “in common” or why do Russians go to war
Ukrainian and international social media were entertained last week by the statements of Ms. Zakharova about Ukrainians refusing to...
- Apr 8, 2022
Dehumanisation and war. Irpin and Bucha
These days the whole world (including Ukraine) are paralysed with horror after seeing the pictures and hearing stories of the liberated...
- Apr 5, 2022
Humanity and war
The war in Ukraine has been going on for a month. The shortest and the longest month in the life of every Ukrainian is an accurate way to...
- Mar 29, 2022
Do Russians want war? They do!
A full out war is unfolding in Ukraine for over 20 days now. A war which Russia initiated. It’s a fact that the war had started 8 years...
- Mar 18, 2022
5 discoveries during war in Ukraine
Russia didn’t succeed in its Blitzkrieg, none of the russists managed to reach Kyiv in two hours/days (or in 2 weeks either). Kyiv is...
- Mar 11, 2022
Russian and Belarusian intelligence targets – opposition activists who moved to Lithuania
The ruling regimes in Russia and Belarus are increasing their pressure on non-systemic opposition organisations, which, due to strong...
- Mar 8, 2022
Not a childish face of war (Video)
“Russian ship go f... yourself!” Today this phrase became part of the DNA of all the free people in the world. It turned out that a...
- Mar 1, 2022
Victor Tregubov: Are you a foreigner who wants to help Ukraine? Here’s how
Editor’s Note: Victor Tregubov is a Ukrainian columnist, political blogger and the former editor-in-chief of Petr and Mazepa online news...
- Feb 4, 2022
Gas pipeline interconnection between Lithuania and Poland - part of new gas geopolitics in Europe
GIPL is a natural gas infrastructure that will connect Polish and Lithuanian as well as Baltic and Finnish natural gas transmission...
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