... consequences.
Thus, the prediction that the political systems in the Baltic states would be preserved in spite of seemingly revolutionary election results panned out. The anti-Russian narrative continues to be a factor that determines the foreign policy of the Baltic states and has a significant influence on their internal life.
As predicted, the Lithuanian presidential elections demonstrated that the people were looking for someone who would take a more balanced approach to Russia than Dalia Grybauskaitė. This is one of the reasons why Gitanas Nausėda’s emerged victorious. Despite this, Vilnius ...
... distance the EU from Russia in every possible area.
In the near future the “energy independence” of the Baltic countries will remain just a political project for regional consumption.
That is why, with Nord Sream 2 being built along the borders of the Baltic states, the leaders of these countries put their stake on the import of liquefied gas, especially from the USA. In February 2016 Lithuania will become one of the first countries to
receive
American LNG. The volume and price of shipments are not yet known, but in the event it does not matter very much, as the preceding policy of Lithuania and the other Baltic countries leaves no ...
... – 14 percent, with experts still unsure whether they have recovered from the debilitating blow. In 2014-2015, Latvia and Lithuania joined a stagnating Eurozone. However, now the Ukraine crisis and talk of an
aggressive Russia
give them a universal ... ... 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 ...
