Actually, this sounds like a typical Lefty ploy.
Poke. Poke poke. Poke poke poke.
Viet Nam did it with the ethnic Chinese.
If Putin plays his cards right he could get all of these ex-pat Russians sent back to Russia where he can conscript them for war service. So if you think about it that way the Baltics are doing him a solid favor!
The Baltic states have an extremely “right” citizenship and residence policy. If nativism is right wing, then they are a model for the most extremist such people on FR.
This does not qualify as “lefty” in any modern conventional definition.
Ok, maybe Pol Pot or North Korea lefty, but that not what anyone is complaining about.