Posts Tagged
Baltic Sea

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  2019/04/14 - 21:35 • International, Op-ed

  Piontkovsky: To save his regime, Putin preparing to use nuclear weapons convinced...

  “Even the toughest authoritarian regime cannot operate on force alone,” Andrey Piontkovsky says, noting that the collapse of public support for Vladimir Putin and his regime means that the Kremlin leader is now considering what he must...

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  2017/03/24 - 12:58 • International, More

  New Threats Require a New Response: What the Baltic Countries and...

    By Paul A. Goble, Institute of World Politics Testimony Prepared for a Hearing on US Policy toward the Baltic States, US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Sub-Committee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats...

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  2017/01/12 - 11:35 • International, More

  Moscow plans to ‘export separatism’ to Baltic countries, Christensen says

  Moscow analyst Yuri Christensen says that Moscow plans to “export separatism” across the entire former Soviet space, including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to break those countries to its will, confident that it can do so because the...

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  2016/05/12 - 06:38 • International, More

  Kremlin ‘really thinking about occupying Baltic countries,’ former RISI expert says

  Most commentators have dismissed as overblown suggestions that Moscow is preparing to occupy Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania because they are members of NATO and the EU and because such a Russian action would lead to a major military...

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  2015/06/30 - 20:42 • International

  Questioning Baltic independence: Russia prepares the ground for an invasion

  Just a few days ago, the Russian Prosecutor General found that the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to Ukraine in 1954 was unconstitutional – and now the same general prosecution is going to question the legality of the independence of...

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