VILNIUS - Moderate political parties' success in the Dutch parliamentary election shows that Europe may be able to withstand rising far-right populism, but it is too early to say that tensions have subsided, Lithuanian political analysts said ...
Those who follow the ups and downs of Ukraine’s economy cannot help but ask one obvious question — what is the “cause” behind all this “effect”? While the obvious disconnect between the economic data and market ...
Volodymyr Serhijchuk is a professor of history at the Kyiv State University and one of the more eminent researchers in Soviet archives. In terms of publishing his findings, he is perhaps the most prolific of the researchers.
One of the to...
Last week, the Russian State Duma of the sixth convocation held its last plenary session, breaking up ahead of the Sept. 18 parliamentary election. The end of this legislature was fitting: its very last act was to adopt a draconian package introdu... The new Latvian military strategy document, State Defence Concept, approved by the government of Latvia at the end of May, already went through initial circles within the Parliament and is waiting for the final vote as soon as possible. Estonia is...
Ambassador Kurt Volker is a leading expert in US foreign and national security policy with some 30 years of experience working in government, academia, and in the private sector. He has worked on European political and security issues under five U...
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This was the beginning of my four-day detention at the Israeli Ben Gurion Airport on April 20, 2016. I...
During his official visit to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Geert Bourgeois, Minister-President of the government of Flanders, noted the longstanding relation between Flanders and the Baltic States.
Bourgeois’ official pr...
Today, two Kazakhstans exist in the world. One of them is the real Kazakhstan that peacefully lives and works, as before. The second is a virtual one that presents a distorted and sometimes grotesque view.
I know the first of them, becaus...
This article was first published on heritage.org, and The Baltic Times was given republishing rights.
Militarily speaking, the three Baltic States—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—are isolated from other NATO mem...
Today, on the 11 January 2016, at 13.00, the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) with the support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Group of the European People's Party will host a public discussion “Latvian External ...
RIGA - The Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) with the support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is hosting a public discussion “Security in the Heart of Asia. Central Asia – NATO Partnership: Challenges a...
This past June, the Obama administration announced it will deploy heavy weaponry–M1 Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, and howitzers–in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and the three Baltic States. This is the first time the U.S. and N...
On September 4, 2015, the Latvian Institute of International Affairs hosted a panel discussion on European security to mark the release of the institute’s latest publication, “Riga Dialogue: Towards a Shared Security Environment.&rdquo...
On May 18 at the Astor Hotel in Riga (Z. Meierovica Blvd. 10), the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) organizes a public discussion and a presentation of the book “Different Faces of ‘Soft Power’: The Baltic S... RIGA - RTU Design Factory recently opened in Riga, with the purpose of creating a link between inspired students and start-ups. Whether to find the composition of a everlasting ink for tattooers or to develop a vertical wind turbine that increases...
The backbone of tomorrow’s Internet may have a remarkable Latvian touch. The Latvian presidency’s proposal on net neutrality challenges the fundamental principle of equal access to all content and applications on the Internet.
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The 1980s were divided into two five-year periods in Russia, one black, one white. First there were the throes of Soviet power played out to the accompaniment of an extraordinary carnival of underground art: from the Necrorealist film ge...
I purposefully chose a title for my piece to evoke the notorious phrase from 1949 by the then US Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal: "The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming. They’re right around. I’ve seen Russian sol...
On patrol with Dnepr-1, Volnovacha Frontline, Ukraine
We approach the last Ukrainian checkpoint at the buffer zone in Volnovacha, eastern Ukraine. A nervous soldier from the National Guard asks for our permits.
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Yury Dolinsky, a Russian analyst who specializes on the Baltic countries, says that most residents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, however much they say they are worried about the Russian threat, believe that their membership in NATO will keep M...
While EU policy makers for environment and energy gathered for an informal meeting in Riga’s National Library this week, producers, suppliers and investors in bio-energy had their own assembly across town in Hotel Latvia.
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As Europe debates whether to maintain its sanctions regime against Russia, the Kremlin’s policy of aggression toward Ukraine continues unabated. Russia is in long-term decline, but it still poses a very real threat to the international order...
On April 1, 2011, Valdis Zatlers, then President of Latvia, visited the White House. I wrote about this visit at the time and described it as highly unusual. Zatlers had a scheduled meeting with US Vice President Joseph Biden. He a...
Vytautas Landsbergis, head of the Lithuanian state between 1990 and 1992 — and a man who is rumoured to have great influence on the current Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite — was absolutely right the other day. He was describing...
More than a month has passed since the murder of Boris Nemtsov, one of the main leaders of Russia’s opposition, who was shot four times in the back, right in front of Kremlin.
Ukrainian experts are convinced: the assassina...
Failing to get tickets to watch Lithuania’s recent Euro 2016 qualifier with England at Wembley, TBT Reporter Julius Bailey-Augalistas rambles through London’s streets in search of kebabs and hooliganism, before getting completely carri...
Artemy Troitsky wrote the book on Soviet rock. There was a time – a long time – when that was an entirely true and grammatically accurate sentence. Issued in 1987 in English, after the development of a very fruitful relationship with t...
Poor Russia – here’s a country that once again has embarked on a path to more unhappiness than happiness, more suffering, misery and sorrow than joy and hope. It’s almost as if it is trying to underline how much over the centurie...
The security services of Belarus are closely cooperating with their Russian counterparts against Lithuania as far as their targets are concerned, according to the annual report of the Lithuanian State Security Department, an arrangement that under...
