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By Rhod Mackenzie
The residents of the Baltic states are now paying hundreds of euros each month to heat their modest apartments. Plus , even government buildings including their Paliaments are cold due the cutbacks in the use of the heating with officials complaining about being cold inside thei...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Rather than declaring a 'hypothetical threat' from Russia, Finland and Sweden are now discussing how to prepare for a long-term confrontation. They are increasing the intensity of their military exercises and training their populations to survive a military standoff. Do these acti...
By Rhod Mackenzie
There has been a significant number of dismissals of ethnic Russian doctors all across in Latvia. The country has previously carried out similar measures against ethnic Russian teachers and railway workers. Some analysts have drawn parallels between these policies and those emplo...
By Rhod Mackenzie
In the Baltic States and Finland a number of people are taking advantage of ordianry people's generostiy in giving o so called charities for the benefit of the people of the Ukraine.
The first was a scandal that erupted in Latvia: an organisation that was recently praised for it...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The sudden onset of freezing temperatures in Europe has suddenly exacerbated a seemingly forgotten fuel crisis.
The situation is particularly challenging in Latvia and Finland. This particularly difficult sitaution is a directl conseuencw of anti-Russian sanctions and the unus...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The three former memebers of Soviet Union the Balic states of Estonia ,Latvia and Lithuania who now are members of NATO and the EU are among the those the most concerned about the fate of Greenland Now why has this serious concern appeared when before there was a complete lack...
