... New Packaging for Old
Projects
After the start of the Ukrainian crisis, Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn stepped up their efforts to make their countries part of the EU “energy mainland.”
At the end of the day the efforts of the leaders of the Baltic states to resolve the current situation are driven by political phobias. On the one hand the Baltic establishment is convinced that the current Russian prices for hydrocarbons are unfair, with their leaders regularly and
publicly accusing
Russia ...
... Russian diaspora in the Baltics to incite a political crisis, which would lead to the inevitable intervention on the part of Russia to protect its citizens living in the region. Yet Kacprzyk fails to mention that the problem of the Russian diaspora in the Baltic states could be resolved by providing them with basic human rights (right now, some 300,000 non-Latvian and 100,000 non-Estonian Russians do not have the right to vote or run for office), which would address the issue of security in the region ...
... USSR, as expressed in the two-volume
The History of Soviet Foreign Policy
(which saw six editions), was based on this interpretation of the treaty’s significance as recently as 1986
[3]
.
The political situation in the USSR, and not just the Baltic states, made it impossible to smoothly manage the issue
The decisions of the highest legislative body in 1989 do not allow for the conclusion that the USSR acknowledged, directly or indirectly, military occupation of Estonia.
On December 24, 1989,...
Prospects for the deployment of U.S. heavy weapons in the countries of ‘new Europe’
Prospects for the deployment of U.S. heavy weapons in the countries of ‘new Europe’
The United States, skillfully taking advantage of the phobias and vulnerabilities of countries that until just recently had been part of the socialist bloc, is considering the possibility of taking the military and political confrontation with Russia to a new level.
When information was leaked to the media in mid-July...
... slogans of
democratization
and
European integration
.
However, the Baltic elites’ political win-win situation is overshadowed by losses caused by sanctions (and in his June interview, mayor of Riga Nil Ushakov said that “Latvia and other Baltic states have been hit hardest by the crisis and
sanctions war
”), the drop in eastbound exports, the commitments to raise defense spending to two-percent at the expense of social programs, and the frontline role in view of a potential armed ...
... – of U.S. military facilities and personnel from Europe, the very simple aim of which being to save money on their upkeep.
Perhaps this is how we should look at the plans to move a part of the United States’ heavy weaponry to Poland and the Baltic states, which have become more convenient places for U.S. troops to store their military equipment, from both the political and economic points of view.
This is because the cost of stationing U.S. troops in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic ...
... themselves just as fast.
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Russia and the EU – Looking for Ways of
Cooperation in the Common Neighbourhood: the
case of the Republic of Moldova and
Transdniestria
Perhaps it is worth determining whether the experience of Poland and the Baltic states was really successful in economic terms. Politicians and economists in the Baltic countries, while not actually deliberately distorting the facts, do make very selective use of them. Juris Poikans, ambassador at large for the Ministry of ...
... between individual Nordic countries on matters of interest to them, and also the involvement of other countries in that cooperation.
I would like to note in relation to this that the countries of Northern Europe started to pay increased attention to the Baltic states as soon as they gained their independence, and focused on developing various forms of cooperation with them. The cooperation between the Nordic and Baltic states has acquired an organisational framework, and meetings of prime ministers, ...
