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Why American Soldiers Are in Lithuania
The likely accidental deaths of four Americans in the Baltic state will not by themselves stop plans for redeployment. And they...
Mar 31


Don’t Know: Even Now
As crises loom, questions still outnumber answers. By Edward Lucas. Lithuania’s Snow Meeting is less famous than Davos. But the night-owl...
Feb 4


Baltic Power Shows Way on Hybrid Threats
The Baltic states, with a long history of Russian interference, offer a model for tackling hybrid threats. On Halloween, Lithuania marked...
Dec 12, 2024


Beware — Mystery Balloons Can Carry a Punch
Hybrid warfare is getting ever closer to the line of all-out warfare. As usual, the Baltic states are the testing ground. Photo source...
Oct 15, 2024


Kremlin information, manipulation, and interference in the Lublin Triangle (Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania) and Moldova
Kremlin efforts to manipulate and interfere with information are an ongoing challenge in the countries of the Lublin Triangle, or L3, a...
Aug 23, 2024


Manipulated voices: Belarus’s disinformation targeting Lithuanian democracy
In the days leading up to Lithuania’s 2024 presidential elections, which were held in May 2024, a foreign information manipulation and...
Jun 10, 2024


Russian and Belarusian information operations targeting relations between Poland and Lithuania
INTRODUCTION Relations between Lithuania and Poland have been steadily improving recently, and since the beginning of Russia's brutal war...
Dec 14, 2023


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 12, 2023


NATO deterrence and defence: Military priorities for the Vilnius Summit
Source NATO Force Integration Unit Lithuania At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s July summit in Vilnius, the focus will...
Apr 21, 2023


NGOs recorded cases of potential social media manipulation during municipal election campaign
During the election campaign for municipal councils and mayors, potential attempts to artificially boost the content posted by certain...
Apr 5, 2023


Bot accounts spread the vision of the “Russian World” on social media platforms
An analysis of the Facebook page ‘Russkaya Litva’ (Russian Lithuania), showed an entire network of interconnected accounts has been...
Feb 14, 2023


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 22, 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 16, 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...
Aug 12, 2022


Russian hackers exaggerate impact of Lithuanian cyberattack
On June 23, the Lithuanian Cyber Security Center (NKSC) announced an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that were...
Jul 8, 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 13, 2022


In Kremlin’s spider web - social media analysis of the migrant crisis disinformation on Facebook
Comprehensive analysis of the networks of profiles, pages, and groups on social media has shown that Facebook pages and groups, which...
May 12, 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...
May 4, 2022


As falsehoods about BelNPP spread, Kremlin media claims that cold-ridden Baltics are asking for help
With the temperatures in the region reaching sub-zero level, Latvia and Estonia are asking for Russia's help and persuading Lithuania to...
Feb 8, 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...
Feb 4, 2022
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