... financial outlook. Third, the Baltic states will withdraw from the BRELL and the bulk of Russian freight will switch from the Baltic states to the freight ports in Russia’s north-west.
Thus, several factors of negative significance for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will converge in the same period, which could spark full-fledged economic and social crises in the Baltic states.
... close electrical and gas bonds with Russia.
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.
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Nikolay Kaveshnikov:
... ... make their countries part of the EU “energy mainland.”
At the end of the day the efforts of the leaders of the Baltic states to resolve the current situation are driven by political phobias. On the one hand the Baltic establishment is convinced ...
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 ... ... 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 ...