However, the Kremlin is back to its old tricks, this time targeting the small Baltic states that regained their independence between 1990 and 1991, after half a century of Soviet occupation. An ...

His counter-move was to settle Russians in the Baltic states. Ethnic deportations and Russification went hand in hand.

"Citizenship or ethnicity doesn't make anyone a security ... Imperialistic ambitions' - The Baltic states have been ardent supporters of Ukraine, but both Estonia and Latvia have sizable Russian ...