The Ukrainian Week

4 May, 2021	Breaking news	Lithuania to contribute to de-occupation of Ukrainian territories Vilnius will never recognize Russia’s occupation of part of Ukraine’s territory and will make efforts to de-occupy these territories
20 August, 2019	World	How to succeed in a revolution: the Lithuanian way How Lithuanians acquired its right to recognition
13 January, 2019	World	Dovile Jakniunaite: “In Ukrainian case we can speak about social-economic plus external influence“ During the second Lviv security forum The Ukrainian Week had spoken to Lithuanian expert on separatism and unrecognised entities to look for similarities and differences of Ukrainian conflict comparing to other countries.
26 September, 2017		“Our goal and the goal of Ukraine is for it not to stop on the path of European integration” Speaker of Lithuania’s Seimas about solutions to the gas monopoly problem in Europe, campaign against emigration of Lithuanians, and a Marshall Plan for Ukraine
16 December, 2015		Ukraine: European Success Story The most important challenges are to lay genuinely strong and stable political foundations so that Ukraine never swerves away from its European course of reform regardless of any political uncertainties future elections may bring
24 September, 2015		Yuri Afanasiev: A Beautiful Dissenting Mind Russia has recently lost one of her towering personalities in the fields of political dissent, human rights defence, political memory, social criticism and humanities
14 May, 2015	World	Vytautas Landsbergis: "Ukrainians are now undergoing a long endurance test" The first speaker of the Seimas of the independent Lithuania and EMP until recently on the way Europe is changing its perception of Russia, the shifting "center of Europeanness", and why it is crucial for Ukrainians to resist disenchantment
23 October, 2014		How We Got Rid of Communism Soviet Communism was always reminiscent of the nearly Byzantine sacrosanct structure of symbolic authority, and the fusion of the sacral and secular elements of power
18 November, 2013		Ukraine belongs in the EU Linas Linkevičius argues that “Ukraine belongs to Europe, not just geographically” and that a European political project without Ukraine would be less impressive in his interview to European affairs journalist Peter O’Donnell.
7 October, 2013	Politics	Back to Europe Project In his exclusive interview for The Ukrainian Week, Lithuania’s Prime-Minister Algirdas Butkevičius talks about the importance of the Association Agreement for Ukraine at the Vilnius Summit and the impact of European integration on his country
13 June, 2013	News	Gediminas Kirkilas: Lithuania feels having no choice, but support Ukraine’s bid for the EU Association Agreement today “Lithuania hopes that the EU will sign the Association Agreement with Ukraine during the EU Eastern Partnership Summit on 28-29 November, 2013 in Vilnius,” claims Gediminas Kirkilas, the Vice-Speaker of the Lithuanian’s Seimas and the Chairman of the European Affairs Committee, in his opinion for The Lithuania Tribune.
1 April, 2013		Civilization of the Young The brain drain process is a painful challenge to Lithuania, as the country is losing the best of its young people, would-be scholars, artists, business people, probably – even public figures, policy makers and statesmen as well.
5 November, 2012	World	Lost in Transition After the 2012 parliamentary elections, it is tempting to describe Lithuania as a victim of a series of ugly and unscrupulous manipulations undertaken by political cheats like Viktor Uspaskich and his party, the Labor Party, which is among the major winners of the elections along with Lithuanian Social Democrats and Motherland Union (Christian Democrats). Yet on a closer look it appears a simplistic perception of Lithuania’s political reality.
16 October, 2012	World	Opposition Wins Election in Lithuania On 14 October, Lithuanians voted against the conservative government and the construction of a new nuclear power plant.
23 July, 2012	World	Troubled Neighbourhood Wojciech Borodzicz-Smoliński talks about modern Warsaw-Vilnius relations
19 October, 2011	History	Excursion to Hell Eugenijus Peikštenis, director of the Museum of Genocide Victims, speaks about how the taboo history of Soviet repressions came to light
19 October, 2011	History	Museum In KGB Prison Lithuanian authorities set up the Museum of Genocide Victims in a building once occupied by the KGB
7 October, 2011	History	No Unity, No Statehood The failure of Ukrainian elites to agree among themselves for the sake of independence in the 14th and 15th centuries led to the breakup of the Rus’ principality and incorporation of its parts into Poland, Lithuania and Hungary
19 April, 2011	World	Prime Minister For Crisis Management Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius: “Do not lose yourself in prejudices towards Europe”
3 March, 2011	World	Maestro Of a Strong Epoch Vytautas Landsbergis, the mastermind of Lithuanian independence, believes that Europe has left the era of big-personality politicians in the past. They have been replaced by those who “listen to themselves only.”