- Putin ‘thanks’ Russians at inauguration while his police beats them up across the country
There are only two countries in Europe whose leaders have been continuously in power for about two decades, and both are dictatorships.
- Lithuania could hold dual citizenship vote with presidental race
The Lithuanian parliament could hold the referendum on dual citizenship in conjunction with the presidential elections, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.
- Journalist wins competition for Lithuania's culture attache to New York
Grazina Michneviciute, journalist and editor-in-chief of the magazine Moteris, has won a competition for Lithuania's culture attache to New York, the Culture Ministry said.
- Russian money talks. America was all ears
A rekindled nuclear scandal shows how Russia exports corruption to the West.
- Russia-Baltics: Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing?
The “gas war” between Russia and Ukraine in January 2006 has focused European attention on Russia’s growing economic power.
- In brief
Vladimir Ustinov, the Kremlin’s longtime chief prosecutor, was unexpectedly dismissed on June 2, The Moscow Times reported. Senior aides are now jockeying for Ustinov’s position.
- Zdanoka hopes to strengthen relations between Latvia, Russia
Latvia’s leftwing alliance For Human Rights in United Latvia has promised to offer ruling parties a “left alternative” in the upcoming general elections.