... activities. The information war mechanisms have a different nature and structure but work really hard on both sides. Politicians and the top brass have become hostage to the simulacrums and phantom threats generated by mass media.
The Security Dilemma in the Baltic
Andrey Zagorsky:
Russia—EU Relations at a Crossroads.
Common and Divergent Interests
The systemic changes in the Russia-NATO relationship have given the Baltic security a new colour. While previously the scepticism of the Baltic alliance members about interactions ...
On June 19, 2015, the Ukrainian Institute for Strategic Studies hosted presentation of collected works "
The Different Faces of Soft Power: The Baltic States and Eastern Neighborhood between Russia and the EU
" issued by Latvian Institute of International Affairs.
The publication offers a series of German, Latvian, Russian and Ukrainian articles on various aspects of the soft power use by Russia and EU countries toward the countries ...
On April 29, 2014 the
Latvian Institute of International Affairs
hosted a seminar on Baltic security sponsored by the
Nuclear Threat Initiative
(NTI) and
European Leadership Network
(ELN). The final session was devoted to relations between Russia and the West against the backdrop of Ukrainian events.
The event was moderated by Andris Spruds, Institute Director. At the final session spoke Ian Kearns, ELN Director; Sergey Utkin, RIAC expert, Head of Strategic Assessments Section at RAS Center ...
Karmo Tüür is head of the Centre for Baltic and Russian Studies at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He is an acknowledged political scientist with an expertise in Russia and its relations to the Baltic region and the EU. In this short interview, conducted on the sidelines of the international conference ...
... instance, the Baltic nuclear power plant, the development of which would boost industry and other sectors of the economy. These steps would allow Russia be less reliant on the Baltic States’ policy, especially that of Lithuania.
Forms and Areas of Russia-Baltic States Cooperation in Security
Over the eight years since the Baltic States’ accession to NATO, it has become clear that the direct threat from NATO’s eastward enlargement was overestimated.
Russia and NATO are similarly keen on cooperation ...
On May 30, 2012, a club meeting of the Russian International Affairs Council members took place. The discussion on the subject “
Russia and the Baltic countries: steps toward normalization of relations
” was the main topic of the meeting.
In the course of the meeting Academician
A. Chubaryan
, Director of the General History Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and
I. Yurgens
...
Vladislav Inozemtsev – a member of the Presidium of the Russian Council on Foreign Affairs, the Director of the Center for Post-Industrial Studies, and editor-in-chief of the journal Svobodnaya Mysl (“Free Thought”) – visited the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University on May 21, 2012. During the visit, V. Inozemtsev delivered two lectures on the global role of the region and Russia as a whole, titled “Kaliningrad: a Bridge to Europe or a Place of Arms for a Non-existent Army?” and “Economic and Geopolitical Positioning of Russia in the Modern World”.
Vladislav Inozemtsev called for the use of Kaliningrad’s geographical ...
Russia and “the Baltic Russians”
The disintegration of the Soviet Union led to the emergence of new states on the political map. Having lost the opportunity to exercise the same degree of influence through the former instruments Russia, willing to attain its goals in a ...
