Eastern Europe Studies Centre

Putin’s Russia. Kremlin’s plan for Europe, bribe No. 1

In the previous articles of the series ‘Putin’s Russia : Kremlin’s Goals and Tools’, I analysed the theory and practice of Russia’s foreign...

Will Poland come back as a regional leader?

Expected, yet very impressive. These words come to one’s mind when evaluating results of the parliamentary elections in Poland . After eight years in...

US focuses more on Eastern Europe, Lithuanian foreign minister says

On 2 November in Vilnius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius welcomed the participants of the roundtable discussion Transatlantic...

Lithuanian analyst: Who is Russia actually fighting in Syria?

Russia launched airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday in what it says is an effort to weaken ISIS. "The main question is what Russia is actually fighting in...

Putin’s Russia: Kremlin’s goal No. 1 (1)

This time I decided to take a closer analytic look and find an answer which becomes more and more important both in Lithuania and the Western countries when...