About us

The struggle between democracies and non-democratic regimes, and the paths to democracy's victory. This is the central focus of “Arch Frontline,” a new analytical Lithuania-based and globally oriented center.

What is Arch Frontline

The center will conduct research and analysis of geopolitics, security, and political processes, engage in disseminating relevant information in the public sphere and the media, provide consultations on the practical applicability of its research and analyses.

The new analytical hub focuses its attention on the rise of authoritarianism and its dangers – both on a global geopolitical scale and in the domestic politics of particular states. This global confrontation is represented in the center's title.

It is precisely the challenge that authoritarianism poses to democracies that is currently identified as the principal dividing line and problem, one that encompasses essentially every aspect of societal life – security, politics, the economy, culture. Another fundamental question – how can democracies withstand this challenge? What are their weaknesses and strengths, and, equally, what is the state and dynamics of the main non-democratic regimes that are increasingly joining forces?

The most extreme, sharpest, and most vivid scene of this confrontation is Russia's aggression in Ukraine, with all its global implications, to which the center will pay the attention of the highest priority.

Russia today represents a systemic danger to the European Union and Europe in general. Its activities – hybrid warfare, disinformation, political corruption, manipulation of culture and migration – expose deep vulnerabilities within Europe itself.

The ways and tools to respond to these dangers are another key priority of Arch Frontline. The center also reflects the effort to bridge the analytical gap between what Europe sees and what it understands about Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic states and how these dynamics shape the West's internal security, cohesion and democratic resilience.

But the center's horizon also encompasses all the other major processes and events that reflect the confrontation between democracy and authoritarianism and the dynamics of that confrontation – the fault lines of global geopolitics in the world's “hottest” regions.

The modern world is an ever-smaller and ever more tightly interwoven place. This is felt and understood not only by the expert community, but also by the broader public, who are increasingly interested in – and actively seeking out – precisely the kind of professional yet clearly and authentically presented analysis of world events. Arch Frontline aims to meet this growing need.

The center will strive to help audiences understand the most important aspects and the very essence of these processes and events as clearly and quickly as possible, but also to forecast the most likely future scenarios and to offer concrete criteria for assessing the emerging new reality and the future, along with ways of engaging with it. For the audience for the center's analysis and information is not only the broad public, both in Lithuania and abroad, but also the expert community, decision-makers and the political elite, media, civil society.

The center will therefore work by drawing on and expanding its network of relationships and contacts in politics, state institutions, the expert community, and the media – maintained in Lithuania, across our region, and globally – with the aim of becoming an ever more deeply rooted and recognized hub of contacts, analysis, and reliable, distinctive information.

In this way, Arch Frontline and its information platforms will serve as an open arena in which recognized experts in their fields, decision-makers, representatives of civil society and the media, and direct participants in the processes being analyzed will share their analyses, forecasts, and recommendations.

Our team

Vytautas Bruveris

Editor

Vytautas Bruveris is the director of “Arch Frontline” and Lithuania-based journalist, political analyst and media personality.

After having graduated Faculty of History of Vilnius University as master of humanities in the field of theory of history and history of culture at 1998, he worked as journalist and political commentator and took leading roles in main media of the country. Among those – political journalist and commentator in main national daily “Lietuvos rytas”, editor in chief and CEO of the national news agency ELTA.

Fields of interests and active engagement – Lithuanian domestic and foreign policy, international relations – mainly EU and NATO foreign policy, EU Eastern partnership, Middle East, Taiwan-China relations, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and war in this country. The last three countries have the special place in Mr. Bruveris' focus – especially Ukraine, which he's covering very extensively and regularly, also reporting from the war frontlines. Also in his focus – philosophy of politics, “transition societies”, historical memory (mainly, european memory of XXth century totalitarianisms, problems of the memory and historical responsibility of Holocaust in Lithuanian and neighboring societies).

Social activities – in 2013-2020 Chairman of the Alumni society of Vilnius University Faculty of History, participation in various social projects, aimed to civil and historical education of young generation. Member of the board of Jerzy Giedroyc forum of dialogue and cooperation – NGO of Lithuanian and polish public figures, intellectuals and journalists, aimed at improving Lithuanian-Polish, Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian-Belarussian polylogue and cooperation. Also, networking with the representatives of civil society in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, trying to team up and connect journalists and civil society representatives with their counterparts in European Union countries.

Alumni of International Visitors Leadership Program of US State Department, Project Interchange of American Jewish Committee.

Publishing articles in Lithuanian and international printed and digital media, numerous participations in Lithuanian and international TV and radio broadcasts. Host of personal talk shows, devoted to the analysis of Lithuanian and international politics on main national media of Lithuania.

Fluent in English, Russian, Ukrainian language.

Vytenis Fuks

Project manager; Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, Vilnius University (TSPMI)

Vytenis Fuks is the project manager at “Arch Frontline” and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science (TSPMI), where he also earned his Master's degree in Public Policy Analysis and his Bachelor's degree in Political Science. He currently works as a Regulatory Affairs Manager at Invest Lithuania, and previously served as an Analyst at PPMI (Public Policy Management Institute). His project management experience spans both the private and non-profit sectors: as Project Manager at Cormack Consultancy Group, a UK-based company, he led higher education internationalization projects across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, while as Project Manager for the Civic Resilience Initiative, he coordinated a non-governmental organization's media literacy and anti-disinformation projects. His research focuses on crisis management and public administration resilience, reflected in co-authored publications on Lithuania's response to irregular migration and on crisis management systems in the Baltic and Nordic countries.