Agnia Grigas

Ukraina turi mažai šansų išsilaikyti kaip viena pagrindinių dujų tranzito tarp Rusijos ir Europos šalių, sako lietuvių kilmės, Vašingtone dirbanti energetikos ir politikos ekspertė Agnia Grigas.

Žingsnis po žingsnio dingsta visi saugikliai, galintys užkirsti kelią projektui „Nord Stream 2“, gresiančiam Europai didesne energetine priklausomybe nuo rusų dujų vamzdžio, o Ukrainai – didesne priklausomybe nuo Kremliaus „malonės“ ir geopolitinių žaidimų. JAV prezidentas Donaldas Trumpas pareiškė,...

Vokietijos dalyvavimas „Nord Stream 2“ atspindi jos dviveidiškumą: Vokietija nori būti ES lyderė, laikytis principingos pozicijos Ukrainos, Rusijos klausimu, tačiau tuo pačiu nori dalyvauti „Nord Stream 2“ dėl savo siaurų interesų. Taip LRT.lt sako JAV analitikos centro „Atlanto taryba“ vyresnioji b...

„Labiau stebėčiausi, jei Rusija nebandytų daryti įtakos Lietuvoje“, – taip apie Kremliaus veiklą šalies energetikoje kalba energetikos ir politikos ekspertė Agnia Grigas.

With the Russian 9th of May celebrations of Soviet victory in World War Two approaching, many in the Baltic States are concerned about the potential risk of provocations or confrontation stemming from the more radical and disgruntled elements of the local Russian minority. Moreover, since Russia lau...

As tensions are brewing between Russia and the West, the three tiny states on the coast of the Baltic Sea - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - seem to be at the epicentre of this imminent showdown.

It would be hard to imagine Athenian generals worrying about the reporting of Spartan news or even, twenty-four centuries later, Douglas MacArthur caring much about media broadcasts from the land of the rising sun. But when General Philip Breedlove, the Supreme Commander of NATO, recently called on ...

In the 1950s, Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash invented a Machiavellian game entitled So Long Suckers. To win, a player had to game, and ultimately betray, his adversaries. Today, as they sit in frozen trenches in what was once aptly named the Wild Fields, it looks as if the soldie...

Britų žurnalistas ir rašytojas Edwardas Lucasas ragina Vakarus pabusti reaguojant į Rusijos veiksmus, o Lietuvos išeivius - padėti savo valstybei, kovojant informacinį karą.

Antradienį, gruodžio 30 d. Prezidentūroje rinkosi labiausiai Lietuvai pasaulio mastu nusipelnę tautiečiai, kuriuos gyvenimas nubloškė į svečias šalis, bei asmenys, kurie padeda Lietuvos vardui skambėti teigiamame kontekste visame pasaulyje.

Antradienį Prezidentūroje bus apdovanoti labiausiai Lietuvą pasaulyje garsinantys žmonės. Apdovanojimų ceremoniją nuo 16 val. tiesiogiai transliuos LRT televizija.

The Russian state's control of Russian media is well known and thus, it is not surprising that the Russian media had often been used as Moscow’s tool abroad. The prevalence of the Russian language and the sizeable Russian minorities in Estonia and Latvia facilitate receptiveness to Russian language ...

Russia has consistently applied its own interpretation of history and dose of propaganda vis-à-vis the Baltic states. In the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the main source of tension in the propaganda sphere was the interpretation of Soviet history, in particular Soviet occupation of the Baltic states...

Trečiadienį pasibaigė dvi savaites trukęs Delfi.lt skaitytojų balsavimas už „Pasaulio Lietuvį 2014“, mūsų šalį pasaulyje garsinantį tautietį. Daugiau nei tūkstantis balsų pasiskirstė tarp nominuotųjų dirigentės Mirgos Gražinytės- Tylos, gourmet tinklaraštininkės Aistės Misevičiūtės, elektroninės muz...

The launch of Lithuania’s new LNG Terminal Independence in Klaipėda is cause for celebration as a victory over Russian gas dominance. as well as neighbouring Latvia and Estonia. However, another Lithuanian energy sector dilemma remains unresolved despite efforts of the European Commission and Vilniu...

Since Russian military incursions into Crimea and Eastern Ukraine to protect Russian “compatriots”, Latvia’s and Lithuania’s Russian and Russian-speaking populations have been much discussed and cited as reasons for concern among the Baltic states and their allies.

There is a long-held view that the Russian gas supply to Lithuania is unlikely to be cut-off because Lithuania serves as a gas transit state to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. In other words, the same gas pipeline feeding Lithuania, also supplies the Russian enclave. According to this argument...

As the crisis in Ukraine is escalating with the prospect of Russian military intervention, there is every reason to believe that Vladimir Putin will use other weapons at his disposal. Thus European nations are increasingly - and justifiably - worried about the impending winter months when Russia cou...