RUSSIANS PUT UK'S EU EXIT VOTE AHEAD OF US ELECTIONS IN LIST OF KEY 2016 EVENTS

The European Union was only expanding and no one could suppose that it could start retreating... READ MORE›

LITHUANIA TO BUILD FENCE ALONG KALININGRAD BORDER, FEARFUL OF RUSSIAN 'LITTLE GREEN MEN'

Kaliningrad, on the Baltic Sea, is the only Russian territory bordering Lithuania, whose eastern neighbor is Belarus... READ MORE›

U.S. TROOPS SET UP BASE IN POLAND, DRAWING SHARP REBUKE FROM RUSSIA

Poland and the Baltic states also feel threatened by Russia's recent deployment of nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, the Russian territory wedged between Poland and Lithuania... READ MORE›

EUROPE PREPARING FOR WAR? LARGEST US MILITARY REINFORCEMENT IN DECADES IN EUROPE, MORE THAN 3,000 US SOLDIERS TO BE STATIONED IN POLAND

As the geopolitical situation between the Baltic States and Russia remains on the edge, NATO in November explained its decision to put 300,000 troops on alert... READ MORE›

US TANKS AND TROOPS IN POLAND A THREAT, RUSSIA SAYS

The troops are part of President Barack Obama's response to reassure Nato allies concerned about a more aggressive Russia... READ MORE›

EUROPE PREPARES FOR WAR: RUSSIA WARNS POLAND IT'S CLOSELY WATCHING WARSAW'S MILITARY PURCHASES FROM US

Moscow was closely monitoring Warsaw's plans to buy missiles from the U.S., said Russian Ambassador to NATO Alexander Grushko said... READ MORE›

US TANKS ARRIVE IN GERMANY FOR NATO MISSION IN EUROPE

Hundreds of military vehicles will be transported to eastern Europe in NATO buildup that could increase Russia tensions... READ MORE›

THE UNITED STATES MUST JOIN EUROPE TO RESIST RUSSIA'S MEDDLING

Russian intelligence leaders don't have many U.S. assets to freeze... READ MORE›

U.S. SENATORS VISIT BALTICS TO REASSURE AHEAD OF TRUMP PRESIDENCY

McCain and Graham asked Trump to take a tough line against Russia over what they termed its military land grab in Ukraine... READ MORE›

A BRAWL OVER CHRISTMAS TREE BRAGGING RIGHTS

RIGA, Latvia -- In the Baltics, there may be no war on Christmas but there's a pretty prickly one over the tree... READ MORE›

US TO SHIP 1,600 TANKS TO DUTCH ARMS DEPOT IN 'CLEAR MESSAGE' TO RUSSIA

Russian officials, meanwhile, have consistently warned that aggressive NATO maneuvers near Russian territory could undermine regional security... READ MORE›

RUSSIA, PUTIN TESTING DONALD TRUMP ON NATO? US TROOPS TO HEAD TO EASTERN EUROPE IN JANUARY RUSSIA

Missile and troop buildup is expected along NATO's eastern border next year, ushering in the president-elect's first foreign policy test... READ MORE›

AP INTERVIEW: LITHUANIA: TRUMP RIGHT ON EUROPE DEFENSE COSTS

VILNIUS, Lithuania AP -- Two senior Lithuanian officials have told The Associated Press that President-elect Donald Trump is actually right that Europeans must increase military spending... READ MORE›

NATO CHIEF TELLS EU: SPEND MORE TO SECURE TRUMP'S SUPPORT

Britain is one of just four European members of Nato to hit the agreed Nato spending target... READ MORE›

THESE MAPS SHOW HOW RUSSIA HAS EUROPE SPOOKED

Bastion land-based coastal-defense missile launchers In October, Russia beefed up its anti-shipping defenses in Kaliningrad with these launchers... READ MORE›

CENTER-LEFT LEADER NOMINATED AS ESTONIA'S NEXT PM

Under Edgar Savisaar, the party did not criticize the foreign policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin and had a cooperation agreement with his party... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP RIGHT ON EUROPEAN DEFENCE SPENDING, SAYS NATO CHIEF

It's not viable in the long run that the United States pays 70 percent of the total defence spending of NATO, the former Norwegian prime minister said... READ MORE›

IN ESTONIA CAUTION BUT SURPRISING CHEERS FOR TRUMPS VICTORY

All speak Estonian, which is used in class, English and Russian, the dominant language in Narva... READ MORE›

EU WILL MAINTAIN RUSSIA POLICIES, EVEN IF US CHANGES COURSE - MOGHERINI

On Monday, EU foreign ministers will officially meet and discuss plans to boost European defense cooperation, including the proposal for a European military headquarters... READ MORE›

AS GLOBAL AXIS OF POWER SHIFTS, A COLD WIND BLOWS THROUGH THE BALTIC STATES

After 25 years of independence, Lithuania worries that Nato splits and US isolationism might open the door to Russian aggression... READ MORE›

WILL RUSSIA DECLARE WAR ON EUROPE? NORTHERN EUROPE, BALTICS CONCERNED OVER 'UNKNOWNS' OF TRUMP PRESIDENCY

Republican Donald Trump's victory has raised fears of America pulling out of the defence of the High North and Baltic Sea regions... READ MORE›

FROM NATO TO ISIS: WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL MEAN FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD

The election of Donald Trump has sent shockwaves around the world... READ MORE›

HEAVY SNOWFALL MAY MEAN COLD WINTER IN EASTERN EUROPE

Cold air has been pushing southwards across Eastern Europe and much of northern Asia in recent days... READ MORE›

TRUMP-PUTIN BROMANCE UNNERVES THE BALTICS: DAVID ANDELMAN

Valdis Zatlers, president of Latvia from 2007 through 2011, has dealt directly with Putin on numerous occasions, but listens carefully to the comments from Trump... READ MORE›

LITHUANIA PREPARES FOR RUSSIAN INVASION AS NATO SENDS TROOPS TO EASTERN EUROPEAN STATES

More than two years after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, Lithuania is warning its citizens of a possible similar fate in the former Soviet Union republic... READ MORE›

BRITAIN TO SEND HUNDREDS MORE TROOPS TO RUSSIA BORDER AS COLD WAR TENSION ESCALATES ACROSS EUROPE

Britain will send hundreds more troops close to Russia rsquo... READ MORE›

US POISED TO PUT HEAVY WEAPONRY IN EAST EUROPE

Putin, that the United States would defend the alliance's members closest to the Russian frontier... READ MORE›

RUSSIA AND NATO 'ACTIVELY PREPARING FOR WAR'

The preparations include major military exercises by both Russia and Nato that appear designed exclusively to respond to one another's capabilities and potential war plans... READ MORE›

POORER THAN GREECE: THE EU COUNTRIES THAT REJECT A NEW ATHENS BAILOUT

In Latvia and Lithuania, pensioners and other poor people wonder why they are being asked to pay to bail out their far richer Greek counterparts... READ MORE›

PUTIN COULD ATTACK BALTIC STATES WARNS FORMER NATO CHIEF

Its Baltic Air Policing Mission intercepted 150 incursions into NATO airspace by Russian aircraft last year... READ MORE›

RUSSIA MOVES NUCLEAR-CAPABLE MISSILES TO NATO DOORSTEP

Lithuania and Poland have expressed concerns as Russia confirmed the deployment of nuclear-capable Iskander missiles into its Kaliningrad outpost that borders the two NATO members... READ MORE›

RUSSIA WARNS DENMARK ITS WARSHIPS COULD BECOME NUCLEAR TARGETS

Germany, Poland, Lithuania, the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Denmark all border the Baltic Sea... READ MORE›

RUSSIA THREATENS TO USE 'NUCLEAR FORCE' OVER CRIMEA AND THE BALTIC STATES

Russia threatens to use nuclear force over crimea and the baltic states... READ MORE›

NATO TESTED BY RUSSIA RAISES ITS GUARD AND ITS TONE

NATO officials have been discussing whether to keep the batteries in Turkey, given Russia's actions, but Mr. Stoltenberg played down that possibility... READ MORE›

NATO RETURNS ITS ATTENTION TO AN OLD ADVERSARY RUSSIA

I don't think we're in the Cold War again... READ MORE›

CALL TO DOUBLE MONITORS IN UKRAINE

They claim anti-EU television and media propaganda is targeting the minority Russian speakers in the Baltic states... READ MORE›

The number of intercepts of Russian military aircraft approaching Western airspace has tripled compared with 2013, British researchers said in November, citing NATO officials... READ MORE›

RUSSIA SAYS WILL RETALIATE IF U.S. WEAPONS STATIONED ON ITS BORDERS

MOSCOW WARSAW A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia's border would be the most aggressive U.S... READ MORE›

HOUSE OF LORDS CRITICISES EU AND BRITAIN FOR 'SLEEPWALKING INTO CRISIS' AS MOSCOW AND NATO REMAIN ON DIPLOMATIC COLLISION COURSE

Valdis Dombrovskis, the vice-president of the European Commission, and a former Prime Minister of Latvia, said Russia's aggression against Ukraine is very worrying for Baltic states... READ MORE›

US AND BRITISH ARMY PARADE 300 YARDS FROM RUSSIA BORDER

Elvira Neimann, 77, said she's been living in Narva since the end of the Second World War in 1945 I feel part of Estonia, not Russia... READ MORE›

U.S. PLANS TO STORE HEAVY ARMS IN BALTIC, EASTERN EUROPE

Plans to store heavy arms in Baltic, Eastern Europe source WASHINGTON An aerial view of the Pentagon building in Washington, June 15, 2005... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN WARPLANES 'AGGRESSIVELY' PASS US MISSILE DESTROYER

Russian jets make a simulated attack on a US missile destroyer in the Baltic sea, coming within 30ft 9m of it, a US official says... READ MORE›

IS LATVIA NEXT ON PUTINA??S HIT LIST?

With Russian fighter jets active on its border, Latvia fears it will suffer the same fate as Ukraine... READ MORE›

BELARUSIAN PRESIDENT ACCIDENTALLY SPARKS INTERNATIONAL STRIPTEASE

Alexander Lukashenko was talking about the importance of technology to the national economy when he urged citizens to get undressed and work till you sweat ... READ MORE›

U.S. TO PRE-POSITION TANKS, ARTILLERY IN BALTICS, EASTERN EUROPE

Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Tuesday moving to reassure NATO allies unnerved by Russian involvement in Ukraine... READ MORE›

INSIDE SKRUNDA-1: LATVIA'S SECRET SOVIET CITY TURNED GHOST TOWN

Cold war heyday In its prime, when it housed more than 5,000 people, Skrunda-1 played a crucial part in the Soviet Union's defence strategy... READ MORE›

RUSSIA 'WILL RETALIATE' IF NATO STORES HEAVY WEAPONS ON ITS DOORSTEP

Russia's response could include delivering missiles to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad between Poland and Lithuania... READ MORE›

The number of intercepts of Russian military aircraft approaching Western airspace has tripled compared with 2013, British researchers said in November, citing NATO officials... READ MORE›

NATO CONSIDERS SENDING 4,000 TROOPS TO RUSSIAN BORDERS

And it would be designed to communicate to the Russians that Nato is serious it will defend Nato territory... READ MORE›

NEAR RUSSIA'S BORDER WITH THE BALTICS, SOLDIERS ON BOTH SIDES ARE PRACTICING FOR WAR

Narva, an Estonian border city that is more than 80 percent Russian-speaking, is often depicted as Russia's first target if it were to move on the Baltics... READ MORE›

WEALTHY RUSSIANS COMING TO UK DOUBLES FOLLOWING SANCTIONS ON PUTIN

Mr Cameron last month warned that Mr Putin could be preparing to invade Baltic states... READ MORE›

US TO INCREASE MILITARY PRESENCE IN EASTERN EUROPE

The US is boosting its troop presence in eastern Europe in response to an aggressive Russia, the military says... READ MORE›

3 MAPS THAT SHOW HOW RUSSIA AND NATO MIGHT ACCIDENTALLY ESCALATE INTO WAR

Already, there have been near-misses with Russian military aircraft getting dangerously close to civilian jetliners above the Baltic Sea... READ MORE›

HOW DO WE PROTECT THE BALTIC STATES?

In particular, Mr Putin would try to conceal Russia's involvement... READ MORE›

EUROPE'S NEW COLD WAR TURNS DIGITAL AS VLADIMIR PUTIN EXPANDS MEDIA OFFENSIVE

But his warning about the Russian threat is designed for ears outside Latvia... READ MORE›