Viktoras Bachmetjevas

In Absence of Contrition and Punishment for its Crimes can Russia Progress? open.substack.com/pub/bachmetjev…

Former Lithuanian Prime Minister, Gediminas Kirkilas, passed away a week ago. Here's my attempt at the obituary. Read on: open.substack.com/pub/bachmetjev…

I am pleased to have an opportunity to share some of my thoughts on forgiveness and victimhood. Please join—in person or online—at 12:30 New Haven time or 19:30 Vilnius time.

Minister of Defense Forced to Resign, Populist Nationalist Appointed Instead open.substack.com/pub/bachmetjev…

🇱🇹🇺🇦 "Memory. War" discussion between Lithuanian and Ukrainian philosophers @VBachmetjevas and Vakhtang Kebuladze took place in the #Kharkiv Literary Museum. The philosophers talked about memory and its influence on our future choices.

@markadamharold @DaFinistere @rogerwaters But he wrote a beautiful song forty years ago. He must know everything!

@DaFinistere @rogerwaters Oh please explain how one brutal occupation is not brutal like the other, and also explain how a guitarist is more of an expert on Ukrainian nazism than people who actually live in the country and witnessed Maidan.

THE TRUTH WILL SET US FREE Against the backdrop of the outrageous and despicable smear campaign by the ISRAELI LOBBY to denounce me as an ANTI-SEMITE, WHICH I AM NOT, NEVER HAVE BEEN and NEVER WILL BE. rogerwaters.com/berliner/

Retail: ft.com/content/acc7c9…

Photography: ft.com/content/7044e6…

@FinancialTimes special report on Lithuania, featuring energy, fintech, photography, and... basketball. An interesting view from outside and a good overview of where we stand. ft.com/reports/lithua…

Basketball: ft.com/content/9e7e15…

Energy: ft.com/content/52626e…

Security: ft.com/content/7399ad…

Good evening. Day 5 after the latest Russian attack on Kyiv. Day 277 of the war. I am president of the Kyiv School of Economics, a former minister of economy of Ukraine, and a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. I left the US for Kyiv 4 days before the war 1/

@PhSteinkrueger @marijemartijn He's obsessed with Rubik's cubes exclusively, I am afraid, all shapes and sizes. It turns out there are 2x2, 4x4 shapes, a pyramid and what not. But he's getting all the information on youtube rather than books.

Ha tweeps, mijn dochter van 10 houdt van logische puzzels. Wie weet een leuk boek voor haar? Liefst met een verhaal. Ik zie door de bomen het bos even niet. Sherlock Holmes Escape Rooms? Of Montague Eilandraadsels? Of…?

A very good opportunity for all those Russian artists of 'don't mix politics with culture' persuasion to come out and strongly condemn Russian army. But I am not holding my breath. theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…

@tomasmarcink Aš pačiai įrašo minčiai tai pritariu, bet šiaip galvojau, kad gal kokį konkretų pavyzdį turi galvoj.

@VBachmetjevas Na, kažkada ateis ir Kissingerio, ir W. Busho eilė, pažiūrėsim, kaip bus apibūdinami Lietuvos žiniasklaidoje

Miršta prieštaringai vertinamas buvęs nepalankios šalies vadovas: "Nusikaltėlis, prisidėjęs prie nekaltų žmonių žūties". Miršta nusikaltėlis, prisidėjęs prie nekaltų žmonių žūties, buvęs palankios šalies vadovas: "Prieštaringai vertinamas".

He also was a coward who in his failed attempt to save the Soviet Union sent tanks against peaceful protesters. Not acknowledging such simple obvious truths is a form of myopia which Western leaders practice toward Russia and former Soviet Union again and again and again.