The status of the Crimean Peninsula has entered international public consciousness over the past decade. Since the events of ...

A review of the official “One Victory for All” website in which the contribution in WW II of the former USSR republics – ...

Workers cut transmission lines to Russia grid and hand out chopped wire to bystanders in dramatic switch to join EU network.

Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia successfully disconnected their power grids from the russian-controlled frequency zone on Saturday, February 8. The power grids of the three Baltic states are now ...

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – all former Soviet republics that are now in the European Union and NATO – had wanted to block Russia's ability to geopolitically blackmail them via the ...

Lithuania first, then Latvia a few minutes later, then Estonia. For 24 hours after detaching from the Soviet-era grid, the Baltic Power System will operate independently. If all goes as planned ...

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -- all former Soviet republics now in the European Union and NATO -- had wanted to block Russia's ability to geopolitically blackmail them via the electricity system.

In Russia’s case, Putin’s attempts to reassert Russian control over its near aboard has a legacy in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union’s imperial history. Putin and his cohort have argued ...

More than three decades after leaving the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have begun to unplug from Russia's electricity grid and join the EU's network. The two-day process began on ...