When the Baltic Soviet republics were fighting for their right to independence from the Soviet Union some 25 years ago, there were plenty of high-level Western “well-wishers” ready to offer ...

NATO announced on Tuesday that it will beef up its patrol of the Baltic Sea in the light of past infrastructure damage to ...

After 25 years of independence, some former Soviet republics are experiencing record population decline while others are soaring to new highs. This is a story about demographic destiny. The extent ...

One technicality: Russia claims representation for 16 Soviet republics on the Council Since these include the Baltic States, annexed by Russia as three Soviet republics, acceptance would be ...

almost all maritime transport through the Baltic was covered by Western insurance. Currently, policies from third countries such as China, India, or former Soviet republics like Kyrgyzstan are ...

Arnold Ruutel, the last communist leader of Soviet Estonia and the Baltic country’s second president after ... in ...

In 1983, he was elected chairman of the republic’s supreme council ... his position to prepare for Estonia’s split from the ...

In 1983, he was elected chairman of the republic’s supreme ... Estonia’s split from the Soviet Union, which had occupied the tiny European country on the Baltic Sea in 1940.