... many cases, this art was simply missing in Moscow following the end of the Cold War. We should have invested many more resources in building stronger relations with our neighbours. I do not recall a single visit of any Russian President to any of the Baltic states, while American and many Western European leaders paid visits to Tallinn regularly. But Estonia should be more important to Russia than it is to the US, given that we are neighbours, share a common history and the country’s large Russian-speaking ...
... unchecked hostility
Twenty-five years ago, soon after I joined Carnegie, I launched my first project at the Carnegie Moscow Center. It was focused on the Baltic Sea area. As a result, I even wrote a short book for CMC called The Baltic Chance: The Baltic States, Russia, and the West in the New Europe. The idea behind both the project and the book was to conceptualize the role of the Baltic Sea region as a laboratory for ever closer collaboration between Russia and the rest of Europe.
Fast forward ...
Full-fledged economic and social crises could be sparked in the Baltic states
Politics. A Populist Revolt with Zero Results
Over the past three years, political processes in the Baltic states have developed within the overall western trend of the population protesting against the old elites, characterised by voting ...
... planned for the spring of 2020, which will practice new,
more Cold War-like scenarios
involving the defence of NATO’s eastern flank. Georgia, although formally a participant in the drill of nearly 40,000 NATO troops mainly deployed in Poland and the Baltic states, will only be involved in airdropping a small multinational force.
Armenia and Azerbaijan: a powder keg
Sergey Markedonov:
The Trans-Caucasus in 2019 Is Not a Monolithic Region
Another hotspot in Transcaucasia is the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict....
This new ELN policy brief looks at ways to reduce the risk of military confrontation between Russia and NATO, namely in the Baltic region. The authors argue that steps to ensure military stability are not only possible, but are also mutually beneficial.
This new ELN policy brief looks at ways to reduce the risk of military confrontation between Russia and NATO, namely in the Baltic region. The authors argue that steps to ensure military stability are not only possible, but are also mutually beneficial...
... a food-for-thought paper, so it doesn't propose any solutions on how to get out of the crisis (on how to resolve the crisis). It's rather a provocation to generate the discussion about such a complicated issue as the relations between Russia and the Baltic states.
It's no secret that relations between Russia and the EU are at a stalemate. Imposed sanctions, the policy of "selective engagement", and disagreements over the Ukrainian crisis and other problematic parts of the world continue ...
On June 10–12, 2019, in St. Petersburg, European Council on Foreign Relations together with Russian International Affairs Council held an expert meeting on “Security Issues in Relations between Russia and the Baltic States and Russia-Ukraine Relations”
On June 10–12, 2019, in St. Petersburg, European Council on Foreign Relations together with Russian International Affairs Council held an expert meeting on “Security Issues in Relations between Russia ...
... United States in June 2017. A sister project is under construction on the Croatian island of Krk. Efforts to decrease energy dependence on Russia are actively supported by European institutions. The European Commission, for example, will work with the Baltic states to link their electricity grids to the EU through Poland by 2025. One of the main challenges that participants of the Three Seas Summit face is economic. Additionally, a lack of infrastructural capacity could severely impede on the ambitions ...
On June 7, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov held a briefing at Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs devoted to security issues in Baltic region and in the Northern Europe.
On June 7, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov held a briefing at Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs devoted to security issues in Baltic region and in the Northern Europe.
The briefing was moderated by Ambassador Stefan Gullgren, Director of Post-Soviet States Department at Sweden's MFA, and Sven Hirdman, former Ambassador...
... 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 ...
