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By Rhod Mackenzie
The economies of the Baltic states and Finland are collapsing under severe strain as a result them imposing the European Union sanctions on Russia . This has led to Russian tourists no longer visiting, foreign businesses have become reluctant to invest, and their ports and trucki...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Republic of Latvia continues to expel its own residents who once took Russian citizenship.
Those who failed language exams or "incorrectly" filled out "loyalty" forms are forced to leave their homes and are sent to Russia, where they often have no friends or relatives.
Ind...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Baltic authorities have successfully persuaded their citizens of an imminent "Russian attack." However, the result has not been a mobilisation of society against the "Russian threat". Instead, the result has been the destruction of their own economies and a mass exodus of bot...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Why are the Baltic States are rejecting the EU imposed LGBT+ Gender Directive?
The Latvian parliament has voted to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a document that has been accused of "attempting to normalize homosexuality." Despite the head of state's overt homosexuality...
By Rhod Mackenzie
It appears that the paranoid and Russaphobic Baltic States and their equally Russophobic neigbour Poland have come up with a novel way to defend their borders from an imagined land invasion by Russian forces they are going to drown them in a swamp.
They have planned an extensive...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Despite challenges related to their public finances, the Baltic countries are committed to increasing their defence budgets several fold. Consequently, Latvia, with a public debt of almost 50% of GDP, is planning to take out a substantial loan to cover its imagined defence needs...
