... 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 75 extreme ...
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 ...
While Russian armoured vehicles were parading on Red Square, people in one of the former Soviet Union republics were getting ready to give them a hearty welcome. With missiles.
The
Hunter 2016
military exercises by the Lithuanian armed forces kicked off on May 9 this year. This is hardly a coincidence, as last year’s exercises took place in
September
–October. Having an anti-tank exercise take place on a holiday that the Baltic States perceive somewhat ...
... illusion
The 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 ...
... into a very interesting article by Marco Siddi dealing with the concept of identity building in international relations, an important branch of constructivist research theory. More specifically, the paper tried to give an explanation of why Germany, Lithuania and Poland have developed determinate national identities, and consequent policies, as a result of a process of confrontation with the image of an ‘other’, in this case Russia. The author debates that, even though all three countries ...
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 ...
... Mikhail Gorbachev's
Glasnost
reforms were underway. First, the Popular Fronts across these republics proposed an entirely different interpretation of those events. On May 13-14, 1989, the “Baltic Assembly of Popular Fronts of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania” convened in Tallinn and passed a Resolution on Stalinist Crimes, stating that “after being annexed in summer 1940, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were seized by the totalitarian regime which launched a campaign ...
In any case, the Vilnius Summit would mean a diplomatic victory for Lithuania
While Eastern Partnership is not likely to have been originally intended by the EU as a new European watershed, by 2012-2013 it can be viewed as an inadequate response to the obvious achievements of post-Soviet integration that have led to ...
Russian-Lithuanian Post-Election Relations
The political pendulum in Lithuania has swung to the left. The right-wing conservative coalition was outvoted in the Seimas elections. A left-wing government is likely to be formed involving the Social Democrats as ...
