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Baltic Chihuahua's Borrow For Increased Defence Spending

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...

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The Baltic States Populations Dying Off Or Leaving

By Rhod Mackenzie

The population of the Baltic states is declining rapidly, with many of the people choosing to disperse to other places in the EU and others are opting out of becoming parents. Local authorities have expressed verballly their concerns about the current situation, but their actions...

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The Baltics make Cheburashka a criminal

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Baltics States are increasingly showing they are becoming completely deranged and totally detached from reality. The Police are arresting individuals for singing Soviet songs, for laying flowers at the sites of now demolished Soviet soldier monuments and even displaying the...

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