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LRT English Newsletter: Skiing, cooling and frustrated expectations
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Ski slope in Liepkalnis, Vilnius / D. Umbrasas/LRT
LRT English Newsletter – February 5, 2021
A month and a half into the lockdown, many of us were expecting big news this week: that some of the restrictions would be lifted.
On Monday, ski slopes were allowed to reopen and the government indicated that on Wednesday restrictions could be lifted on more services and retailers. They were not.
PM Šimonytė later apologised for ‘raising expectations’ too high, as businesses threaten to bring lawsuits against what they say are unfair rules that let big supermarkets stay open and keep everyone else shut.
Lessons for Baltics after Soviet aggression thirty years ago
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January 13, 2020. Commemoration of those killed during Soviet aggression in 1991. / D. Umbrasas/LRT
Soviet attempt to crush Baltic independence is now often seen as among the last convulsions of the crumbling totalitarian empire. It also delivered several very important lessons to the Baltics today, writes Tomas Jermalavičius at International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Estonia.
Some of those lessons had been almost immediately applied and institutionalised, but others had been too easily forgotten, unlearned and even hijacked and distorted. In any case, this horrible assault still echoes through the politics and geopolitics of the region.
ICDS research fellows Martin Hurt and Tomas Jermalavičius contributed to the publication “Towards #NATO2030: The Regional Perspective of the Baltic States and Poland”, a project managed by the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) and supported by the NATO Public Diplomacy Division.
Towards a Credible Deterrence and Defence Posture in the Baltics in 2030
Martin Hurt wrote an article about NATO’s deterrence and defence posture in the Baltics in 2030. He described past decisions that were made to design a credible posture, challenges that will affect the delivery if this posture as well as the evolving security environment describing the Baltic Sea region in a wider context together with unfolding events in Belarus and developments in the Arctic and the northern Atlantic Ocean.
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