Off the Wire

  • 1999-08-19
MOSCOW STILL DANGEROUS: Russia continues to pose a formidable threat to the Baltic countries and has still not come to terms with Baltic independence, according to Edward Lucas, the Moscow correspondent for The Economist magazine. The threat ranges from damaging trade sanctions to demands for military concessions. "Russia's history gives plenty of reason to fear that any periods of stability and good neighborliness will be brief," Lucas said in an interview to City Paper, an English-language publication based in Tallinn. The most vulnerable of the Baltic countries is Latvia, he believes, be...
 
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