The Baltic Sea region has undergone a remarkable transformation over the last 30 years from an area of potential competition and instability in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union to a place of robust stability, deep Euro-Atlantic integration, and economic dynamism. Countries that were previously divided by the Iron Curtain now cooperate on a large scale.
https://jamestown.org/program/the-three-russian-attitudes-toward-belarus/
Britain has allowed the number of Russian diplomats in London to increase for the first time since expulsions over Sergei Skripal’s poisoning last year, prompting warnings that the move will be seen as a sign of weakness.Christian Turner, Britain’s deputy national security adviser, went to Moscow t
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/rise-of-russian-diplomats-in-uk-emboldens-putin-jpm295dwc
http://day.kyiv.ua/ru/article/den-planety/balkanskiy-rubezh-kremlya
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/30May2019/bild/zelensky.html
http://www.ng.ru/kartblansh/2019-05-30/3_7587_kart.html
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3984567
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3984211
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3984208
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3983899