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Warfare on the borders of EU: hybrid-legality and a chance for the Left?

  • Andris Šuvajevs Andris Šuvajevs
  • Belarus
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In early August, the government of Latvia declared a state of emergency on the border with Belarus. Included in this measure was a decision to not accept any asylum claims. While the emergency measure is...

European Union, strategic autonomy and the Eastern Partnership

  • Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat - Vladimir Mitev Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat - Vladimir Mitev
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The future of European Union has been a matter of heated debates for years. The second episode of Cross-Border talks takes a close look at the community's place in international relations… with special focuses to both East and...

Lithuania’s government’s anti-Russian hysteria has reached comic proportions (again)

  • Boyan Stanislavski Boyan Stanislavski
  • Belarus
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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda intends to distribute copies of the hit HBO series Chernobyl to EU leaders in order to warn them about the alleged dangers posed by Belarus' recently built nuclear power plant. He...

Lithuania’s failed social-democracy. Was the 2020 election LSDP’s funeral? 

  • Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
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Something is rotten in the state of Lithuania. Clearly. Not necessarily in a Shakespearean way, but things are serious when the alcoholism and suicides rates have been the highest in Europe for the last years....

The great demolition of the Lithuanian Social Democrats

  • Andrius Bielskis Andrius Bielskis
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The right-wing political parties have, regrettably, won the 2020 parliamentary election in Lithuania. The conservative Homeland Union — Lithuanian Christian Democrats managed to gain 50 seats in the Seimas (the Lithuanian parliament), while two liberal...

Another ‘war hero’ honored in Lithuania: A nazi-collaborating priest, of course

  • Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
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[caption id="attachment_1507" align="alignleft" width="300"] Efraim Zuroff, source: Wikimedia Commons[/caption] The scandalous act was first reported in the Jerusalem Post by Efraim Zuroff. He is an American-born, well-known Israeli historian and Nazi hunter who has played...

Vanagas Versus Vanagaitė: How Does Lithuania (Not) Talk About its “Cursed Soldiers?”

  • Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
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The scandal that recently shocked Lithuania has many aspects well known from the Polish reality: aggressive historical policy, cult of the sacrosanct “cursed soldiers”, and fight with Russian propaganda. And there is no good ending....
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