Security Issues Are Not Resolved by Nervousness

... initiatives at the beginning of the 1990s, aimed at ensuring that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia did not have a destabilising influence on the situation in the region. They were directly involved in establishing consensus-based ... ... 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 ...