... self-explanatory—Russia is an aggressive state that has to be deterred.
RAND Corporation Report "Deterring Russian Aggression in the Baltic States Through Resilience"
In the very beginning, the authors state that the governments and citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Estonia are facing Russian propaganda and other nonmilitary activities on a daily basis. And that is just a part of a significant and insidious Russian campaign that designed to undermine trust in their institutions, foment ethnic and social ...
... realised that they simply could not increase cooperation with China because doing so would mean involving Russia in some capacity or other (particularly within the “One Belt One Road” project), and confrontation with Moscow is a central tenet of the Estonia, Latvian and Lithuania strategies. The fallout of the decision to back away from cooperation with China is that the Baltic states will not be able to revive their economies through cooperation with that country, or with any of the rapidly growing markets ...
This publication includes 53 articles analysing the main development trends in the post-Soviet space – both the geopolitical region as a whole and the individual countries that make it up. The anthology consists of three sections: the first section is retrospective in nature and looks at the post-Soviet space 20 years after the collapse of the USSR; the second section analyses the current state of the former Soviet nations; and the third section provides a number of forecasts for the development...
... 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 be of ...
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....
... energy 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 ...
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 ...
... fierce battles between the Red Army and the armed forces of the Third Reich, including the Estonian SS-Legion. The core Europe and international organizations choose to ignore this tradition in modern Estonia, while Russia is its chief critic. Just as in Latvia, Estonian SS veterans, however, de facto enjoy the patronage of the local government. In 2013, for example, in response to the traditional criticism by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, its Estonian counterparts argued that in Sinimäe all those ...