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By Rhod Mackenzie
In the course of a criminal investigation into abuses during the construction of the Rail Baltica railway project, which was been dubbed the "project of the century" at its inception, dozens of Latvian officials have been interviewed by fraud investigators .
The rail project, wh...
By Rhod Mackenzie
In Lithuania, neo-librals supporting and funded by the EU and Soros NGO's are holding small public demonstrations and calling for the arrest and prosectution of those who persistently assert that life was better under the Soviet Union and the so called Russian occupation.
So to...
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 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
With a script so ridiculous that it could come from a Hollywood comedy I want to talk Lithuania's desire to punish its neighbour Belarus over cigarette smuggling which has ultimately resulted in not only the punishment of its own citizens but the destruction of one of its mst i...
By Rhod Mackenzie
It has been announced that the German military armaments manufacturer is planning to build a number of ammunition plants in the former Soviet republic of Lithuania. Of course its now part of the EU and NATO but lets not forget the country was liberated from the Nazi's by the Sovi...
