With Chinese ships in port at the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad for exercises with the Russian Baltic Fleet, it seems St Petersburg, the former capital of Russia, is also hosting warships of the Baltic line. A Tsarizm contributor filed these images of vessels moored in the city built by Peter…
Chinese Warships Dock At Russian Baltic Ports For War Games.
Image by NordNordWest The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been concerned about defending the almost indefensible Baltic members of the alliance for some time. This focus has become especially worrisome after Russia embarked on a remilitarization of the area by placing large amounts of weaponry and forces in Kaliningrad,…
Image by Rei-artur The Baltic nation of Estonia, one of the NATO members in the region concerned about perceived Russian aggression, expelled two Russian diplomats on Friday. Estonian Foreign Ministry declared that Russia’s Consul General in the city of Narva Dmitry Kazennov and Consul Andrei Surgayev would be expelled from…
Railway industry officials say that Russian Railways (RZhD), which has a monopoly in Russia, is refusing to accept rail shipments into the Baltic nation of Latvia. Deliveries are down 90% from recent months. Speculation is rampant that Russia is punishing Latvia over its refusal to allow Moscow to use its…
The Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, while at a NATO summit in Brussels, declared she wanted a permanent U.S. troop presence in her country to counter perceived Russian aggression on Baltic borders. “We need the serious involvement of the US to not only deter but to defend…It is important to have…
Image by Alfredas Piladys Military sources said today the U.S. military may deploy the Patriot missile system in the Baltics as part of a temporary rotation of troops in Lithuania. The news would herald a serious commitment to continue to build capability to defend the Baltic nations against perceived Russian…
Baltic Defense Ministers To Meet With US Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Lithuania has been providing political support and practical assistance to the Euro-Atlantic integration of Georgia for a long time. On April 12 Georgian and Lithuanian Defense Ministers Levan Izoria and Raimundas Karoblis addressed the security situation in the Baltic and South Caucasian regions and the reform of the…