From January 11 to 13, 2026, Lithuania marks the 35th anniversary of the “January Events.” Three tumultuous days in 1991 culminated in a widely publicized mass shooting of protesters at Vilnius’s TV Tower, with 14 killed and more than 140 injured. Soviet forces purportedly, were responsible. The bloodshed elicited an avalanche...

In February 2023, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken briefly met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and proceeded to give him a “moral” lecture on Russia’s decision to suspend its role in a nuclear arms treaty, and on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They were in India for the...