Lithuania, together with Poland, is preparing an international evacuation plan for part of the residents of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in the event of possible external aggression. On September 25, the director of Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Center, Vilmantas Vitkauskas, said that Lithuania already has an internal evacuation plan, while the joint one with Poland is still being developed.

#Vilnius #Latvia #Lithuania #Poland #SuwalkiCorridor #Estonia

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Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia asked the European Commission for €500 million for drone defense. The defense ministers of the three countries sent a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and are waiting for a response in the coming weeks; in Vilnius, Riga, and Tallinn, they hope to receive the money by the end of the year.

#EuropeanCommission #Latvia #Lithuania #NATO #Russia #Estonia

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The administrations of the Slantsy and Kingisepp districts of Leningrad Oblast reported new FSB restrictions in the border zone. In Estonia, they said the threat assessment has not changed and that «there is no danger from that side».

#KingiseppDistrict #Leningradregion #BorderDirectorateoftheFSB #SlantsyDistrict #FSB #Estonia

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Estonia has begun talks with France about a possible participation in the initiative to strengthen nuclear deterrence. Prime Minister Kristen Michal said the decision depends on the country’s readiness, and the French ambassador to Estonia, Alexandre Escorcia, confirmed that the sides are discussing this issue and other areas of defense cooperation.

#NATO #SIPRI #Finland #France #EmmanuelMacron #Estonia

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Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur resigned amid a scandal over the purchase of artillery ammunition for Ukraine and criticism from the State Audit Office. The disputed deal by the Estonian Centre for Defence Investments (RKIK) with supplier Datasel S. R. L. led to advance payments of about 60 million euros, but the shells turned out to be incomplete and never reached Ukraine.

#EestiEkspress #NationalAuditOfficeofEstonia #Ukraine #HannoPevkur #Estonia #EstonianCentreforDefenceInvestments

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Estonia’s Chancellor of Justice Jüri Madise was elected president of the country at an extraordinary parliamentary session on September 2. She received 71 votes out of 101 deputies, with the required minimum being 68 votes.

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Continuation of hybrid warfare, direct invasion, or a deterrent strike: we examine three of the most realistic scenarios.

#Analytics #WarinUkraine #hybridwar #europe #Latvia #NATO #forecasts #Russia #Balticcountries #USA #Estonia #nuclearweapons

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Until the early 2020s, Abbas Gallyamov was integrated into the Russian power structure: he worked as a speechwriter for Vladimir Putin when he was prime minister, as a political consultant in regional elections, and as deputy head of the administration of the president of Bashkortostan. But after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Gallyamov left for Israel, was labeled a foreign agent by the Russian Ministry of Justice, and last year was sentenced in absentia to eight years for «discrediting the Russian army.» We spoke with Abbas about the changing world order after Trump’s election, the prospects of a Russian invasion of an EU neighbor, and how friends of Putin’s younger daughter are quietly preparing to take power into their own hands.

#AbbasGallyamov #authoritarianism #WarinUkraine #Hitler #EuropeanUnion #interview #resultsfor2025 #KaterinaTikhonova #Lithuania #Moldova #Mussolini #forecasts #Putin #Russia #Trump #WorldWarIII #futurology #Economy #Estonia

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An effective way to stop Russian military provocations could be NATO’s shift to a proactive strategy. So that it’s not European countries fearing the arrival of Russian drones or fighter jets, but rather Russia itself fearing unexpected «visits» on its own territory. Ukraine has already shown how this is done, reaching Russian military and energy facilities thousands of kilometers from its borders with its drones. But will there be politicians in Europe willing to declare their intent to fundamentally dismantle the aggressive empire threatening the entire free world?

#WarinUkraine #drones #EuropeanUnion #LeagueofNations #MargaretThatcher #NATO #UN #aftertheSSPR #provocations #RonaldReagan #Russia #Estonia

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In recent years, some in the Russian public have been strongly tempted to engage in victim-blaming regarding the events of 1939-1940. The idea goes that the Baltic peoples chose their own fate: they signed the treaties, let the Red Army in, and voted for pro-Soviet candidates in elections. Who else can they blame for this but their own short-sighted and cowardly governments? Indeed, formally the Stalinist regime at the time did nothing that the authorities of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia did not allow. But in reality, the Soviet leadership fully understood the true meaning of these documents and procedures.

#Baltics #East #WorldWarII #dictatorship #west #historicalmemory #History #Latvia #Lithuania #MolotovRibbentropPact #Poland #repressions #theUSSR #Stalinism #Estonia

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