VILNIUS - The victory of Vladimir Putin in the elections for president of Russia somehow did not surprise Lithuania. Anyway, it provoked some guessing regarding the future Kremlin’s foreign policy.Mecys Laurinkus, former head of Lithuania’s State Security Department, on the eve of the elections, in his regular column in Saturday’s issue of the daily Lietuvos Rytas, raised an interesting theory regarding the elections in politically exotic Russia.According to Laurinkus, Putin, able to choose for himself a bunch of pseudo-rivals in these elections, is also testing...
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