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Stay Home and Prepare for Occupation

... went overly aggressive and pushy. But the same works for the other side. Western media can also be biased when they cover Russian politics. Oleg Shakirov: “Russian Propaganda”: On Social Networks, in Eastern Europe, and Soon Everywhere Media in the Baltics also isn't an example of unbiased and objective journalism. Authors forget to mention that the stigma of "dark Russia" still prevails in most Baltic media. Nonetheless, that's a problem that exists on both sides. There is no easy solution ...

21.04.2020

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Wallström-Lavrov meeting: The beginning of a thaw in Russia-Sweden relations?

... expert community, Gotland municipality declined to lease one of the piers in Slite harbour to Gazprom for the construction of Nordstream-2. The contention from some experts was that Russian dockworkers could in the event of a West-Russia crisis over the Baltics result in those same dockworkers becoming “little green men” – a reference to the unmarked Russian soldiers deployed in Crimea following the coup in Kiev in early 2014 – and seizing control of the island for Russian anti-access/area ...

27.02.2017

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