The Eastern Europe Studies Centre presents analytical newsletter "Eastern pulse" and the article of Justinas Pimpe "Elections in Russia: what prospects does the new political cycle offer?".

Please click HERE to download the latest issue of The Eastern Pulse, Issue 5 (39).

On 12 - 14 January 2012, the second training course of the Baltic-Nordic NGO capacity building programme was implemented in Vilnius, Lithuania. The programme entitled "Development Cooperation in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries: NGO-to-NGO Training and Networking”, supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania and the Association of the Local Authorities in Lithuania, aimed at strengthening Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Danish, Finnish and Swedish NGOs working in the field of development cooperation. The second training focused on the relationship between the environment and the development cooperation, learning practical tools how to assess the environmental impacts on the projects and vice versa. Read more...

The Eastern Europe Studies Centre presents analytical newsletter "Eastern pulse" and the article of Vilius Ivanauskas on Unavoidability of the leaders and the factor of 2011 in present-day Russia.

Please click HERE to download the latest issue of The Eastern Pulse, Issue 4 (38).

On 27 - 28 October 2011, the Baltic-Nordic NGO capacity building programme was launched in Vilnius. The programme entitled "Development Cooperation in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries: NGO-to-NGO Training and Networking”, supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania and the Association of the Local Authorities in Lithuania, aims at strengthening Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Danish, Finnish and Swedish NGOs working in the field of development cooperation. The first training focusing of the relationship between development cooperation and sustainable development covered such important questions: Read more...

Numerous articles in the international press, as well as statments by the Cathering Ashton, EU's foreign policy chief, and international organisations welcome positive developments in Burma marked by the release of some of the politcial prisoners. The extent of the prisoner release was still unclear yesterday evening. Do these developments pave the way for real reforms in the country? The EESC offers you an overview of press cuttings, as well as a statement by Cathering Ashton released on Wednesday. More...