Whether Despite or Because of Russia’s Realpolitik, There Are Modest Signs of Cooperation in U.S.-Russian Relations
As the United States last week agreed to station Patriot missiles in Poland only 100 kilometers from Russian soil in order to bolster Polish air defense, the international community braced itself for a return to hostile U.S.-Russian relations. But [...]
Ukrainians go to the polls Feb. 7 to choose their next president. The last time they did this, in November 2004, the result was the prolonged international incident that became known as the Orange Revolution.
That event saw Ukraine cleaved off from the Russian sphere of influence, triggering a chain of events that rekindled [...]
The Copenhagen Summit with representatives of 192 states, including the national leaders and governmental representatives, most probably is the last opportunity to find solutions of problems related to climate change. Its organizers are going to adopt the document committing the world states to stabilize the greenhouse gas concentration in the air.
The guests in the airport [...]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė urged NATO several times to elaborate the defense plan for the Baltic States. However, according to Secretary General of NATO A.F. Rasmussen, who has recently paid a visit to Lithuania, even if there is no specific defense plan, the Baltic States shall be protected pursuant to the collective defense principles, specified in [...]
The liberal outrage against the perceived insult delivered by the Swiss electorate to its Muslim minority on Sunday, when it voted to ban minarets, has not cooled. Vatican officials and Catholic bishops, fresh from celebrating 40 years since the introduction of the New Mass, have been in the forefront of the campaign against the referendum [...]
Starting today, December 1, Greater Europe will live under a new Constitution. It took eight years to adopt and nobody dares use the term “constitution” officially because it was so difficult to adopt it. They prefer to call it the “Lisbon Treaty on reform.”
The Lisbon Treaty, which has changed the decision-making process inside the European [...]
It is an open secret that four former Soviet republics – Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Ukraine – are one of those countries that suffered from the economic crisis most.
The inflation rate in those countries continues to grow because of huge debts, although the rate in many other countries begins to decrease. The crisis-struck states experience [...]
Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine intend to create a combined military unit: a Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian brigade.
Vilnius ( Ilya Kramnik) – Ukraine believes a joint formation can help its armed forces meet NATO standards. The agreement was reached at talks in Brussels, attended by Ukraine’s acting Defense Minister Valery Ivashchenko, Lithuania’s Minister of National Defense Rasa Jukneviciene and Poland’s [...]
Writing for the daily Neatkarīgā Rīta Avīze Voldemars Hermanis discusses the phobic attitude towards Russia which is widespread in former Soviet republics:
"Independently of the regimes in power in each country, the former Soviet republics still form a joint cultural, scientific and leisure time community with ties that reach beyond national borders.
… In [...]
The gas pipeline Nord Stream, intended to be laid along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, may become an obstacle for the construction of the energy bridge between the Baltic States and Sweden. This is the opinion of Janina Baksiene, the Laboratory Head of the Institute of Genotoxicology at the Vilnius University.
J. Baksiene noted that [...]
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