... met the Wales Summit requirements. Warsaw's defence spending is significantly lower than that of Russia, but is still significant to regional stability, especially in light of the procurement of new weapons and military equipment. The contribution of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is minimal: these countries are consumers of security, although still important in terms of their location in the potential theatre of military operations.
The bottom line is that Berlin's commitment to the 2/20 target will ...
A joint seminar with the Embassy of Estonia to Russia and the Delegation of the European Union in the Russian Federation is planned for mid-autumn 2017.
On August 30, 2017, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a meeting with Arti Hilpus, the Estonian Ambassador to Russia....
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine
The process of the breakup of the USSR into independent states naturally aggravated tensions between the newly formed countries. Unfortunately, political and economic disputes sometimes erupted into armed conflicts....
RIAC hosted a meeting with representatives of Estonia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Paul Teesalu, Director General, Political DepartmentActing Undersecretary, Political Affairs Directorate; Martin Roger, Director of Division for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Issues, Policy Planning Department; ...
... strategy of the Baltic countries is underpinned by a single political imperative: to eliminate the “Baltic island” of the EU energy system. In fact infrastructure (transport, gas, electricity and so on) is the last sphere Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have failed to completely integrate into Europe over the past 25 post-Soviet years. The Baltic gas infrastructure has been closely linked with the eastern neighbour since the Soviet times: in 2014 Russia
fully met
the gas needs of these republics ...
... annual news conference.
"I believe there is certain progress and the relations are improving and Putin noted it, outlining the steps Russia may undertake," Pushkov told reporters. "But certainly, Georgia should refrain from the steps Estonia takes when, on one hand, it urges us to ratify the border agreement in the soonest time possible and on the other hand, makes statements that Estonia will never join the coalition if Russia is in it."
"We will not want Georgia to backslide ...
Sergey Rekeda: Who Benefits from it?
The Baltic countries, i.e. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which have rarely demonstrated a penchant for pragmatic relations with Russia over the past 25 years, seem to take the lead in the number of those who gain from the Ukraine crisis, with obvious benefits to be reaped simultaneously in several ...
... Union’s collapse, when Mikhail Gorbachev's
Glasnost
reforms were underway. First, the Popular Fronts across these republics proposed an entirely different interpretation of those events. On May 13-14, 1989, the “Baltic Assembly of Popular Fronts of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania” convened in Tallinn and passed a Resolution on Stalinist Crimes, stating that “after being annexed in summer 1940, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were seized by the totalitarian regime which ...
Elections to the Estonian Parliament Riigikogu
On March 1, 2014 elections to the Estonian Parliament Riigikogu were held. According to the Republican Election Commission (VVK) of the country, 872 people claimed 101 seats in Parliament. 10 parties and 11 independent ...
U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Estonia on September 3, 2014. The visit will mark one of the key stages in the preparation of the NATO Summit in Wales (which will take place on September 4–5) and partial redesign of the European security architecture.
After the collapse of the ...
