Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have been NATO members for five years already. The West actively uses the three Baltic States to put pressure on Russia. The Baltic region may eventually become the arms depot located very close to Russia’s western borders

Russia marks another anniversary since Stalin’s death on March 5. Stalin turned a number of European countries into the countries of the socialist camp, which became one of the cornerstones of his foreign policy. The measure was vital for the USSR during those years, although it seriously affected Russia’s current relations with those countries

Since January, deflation in the economies of East and Central Europe, including the Baltic Republics and the Balkans, has started to to pick up steam as banks crash, stock markets collapse and local currencies plunge. In many ways, what's happening now across Eastern Europe - including Russia - is reminiscent of the Asian economic depression that began in Thailand in July 1997.

Sergey Shoigu, the head of Russia’s EMERCOM, put forward a suggestion to pass the law that would stipulate criminal responsibility for rejecting USSR’s victory in the Great Patriotic War. The minister pointed out that some countries had legalized criminal responsibility for the rejection of Holocaust

The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) began working in Strasburg. European deputies will do what they like doing most – criticize Russia for all of its recent steps in home and foreign politics. At any rate, one shall expect anti-Russian remarks during the discussion of such issues as South Ossetia, Ukraine and the Baltic states.

Estonia is launching a new campaign for the assimilation of the Russian-speaking population. The Russians residing in Estonia will be pushed towards changing their Russian surnames to Estonian surnames. The administration of the Baltic nation decided to use such a measure to conceal its absolute inability to struggle against the financial crisis, which had put the three Baltic states on the edge of the economic collapse

Tank raid become a matter of the past nowadays, when missile technologies develop so speedily. A new term has appeared – a ‘contact-free war.’ NATO opened a new era of military actions when it bombed Yugoslavia in 1999. Land troops did not have to invade the country. A similar situation was observed in Iraq in 1991 and 2003: land troops were virtually finishing those who stayed alive after air strikes