In 2004, seven countries - including Estonia and Latvia sharing borders with Russia - entered NATO and the EU. In the same year, the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, alleged by Russia to be an ...

When Russia illegally annexed Crimea in March 2014, my grandfather was so deeply affected that his heart stopped beating, and ...

Latvia Foreign Minister Baiba Braze addresses the UN Security ... population 40 million, since it seized Crimea in 2014 and ...

A month after Latvia hosted a major multinational NATO operation on the alliance's eastern flank, the country's former prime minister, Krisjanis Karins, spoke to Morning Edition about new signals ...

Demonstrations against the far right are being held in cities across Germany. But do the protesters have the resources to stand up to right-wing extremism over the longer term? Once the initial ...

The status of the Crimean Peninsula has entered international public consciousness over the past decade. Since the events of 2014, when it was annexed from Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the state ...

One drone was also downed over Russian-annexed Crimea. Kyiv’s forces said they ... security guarantees in the event of a peace deal. Latvia will further increase its defence spending to 4 ...

Latvia’s SAB Director Egils Zviedris warned ... Russia had infamously annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 in a bloody conflict before relaunching another invasion in February 2022.

MUNICH-Throughout its history, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) has often marked turning points – whether in debates over the Iraq War or Russia’s annexation of Crimea. But the 2025 ...

Matveev points out that, although 10 of the former republics are listed, there is no mention of the three Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – or the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

The 2014 annexation of Crimea became a watershed moment in the ... integrating former Warsaw Pact members and ex-Soviet republics: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary ...