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The international community has been closely monitoring China’s actions and the dynamics of its relations with Russia. There are still no signs of Beijing’s desire to clearly distance itself from Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Based on intelligence information transmitted by Ukraine, the Moldovan authorities expressed serious concern about the existence of alleged Russian plans to carry out subversive actions with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the constitutional authorities.

The value of the defence procurement agreement signed between Poland and South Korea exceeds USD 14.5 billion. This amount is larger than the entire Polish defence budget for the current year.

The Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review is an analytical journal focusing on global issues and analyzing their impact on Lithuania. It is published annually in cooperation with the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2018, the partners have included Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the US Embassy in Lithuania.

In the first ten months of 2022, the GDP of Belarus decreased 4.7%, but the overall contraction of the economy is slowing down and it is gradually adjusting to the new sanctions. The annual inflation in Belarus has exceeded 15%, and the country has officially imposed price caps.

The survey presents the Democratic Sustainability Barometer, an index comprising four intermediary indexes. They measure different dimensions of public perception of democracy, namely the perception of elements of liberal democracy, the support for the active defense of democracy by means of protests, satisfaction with democracy in Lithuania and trust in Lithuania’s state institutions.

Security cooperation in the Baltic Sea region is undergoing profound internal change at the same time as the broader shifts in NATO’s strategic environment are transforming the region’s role and status in the Alliance.

Xi Jinping was re-elected as the general secretary of the CPC Central Committee (CC). This is already his third five-year term in office.

The political crisis which started in Belarus in 2020 after the falsified presidential election, mass protest and subsequent state violence, caused a wave of migration from the country.

Following the disputed presidential election in August 2020 and the refusal by the Western states to recognize the incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka as the elected president of Belarus, several waves of political repressions swept across the country.

In November 2021, Lithuania’s government agreed to establish a Taiwanese representative office in Vilnius; in August 2022, Nancy Pelosi, the US Speaker of the House, made a bold visit to Taiwan despite all the threatening rhetoric from the People’s Republic of China.

Russia’s war in Ukraine has become a signal that temporary relocation to Lithuania may take longer than most Belarusians thought until recently. Such a situation may paradoxically stimulate the desire of Belarusians (both individuals and organizations) to integrate in Lithuania more strongly.