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  • EU States Demand Brussels Punish Hungary for Banning Pride Parades

    05/30/2025 5:24:56 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 53 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 30 May 2025 | Kurt Zindulka
    The democratic will of the Hungarian people to clamp down on the proliferation of LGBTQ+ ideology should be punished by the European Commission, a group of 16 EU countries demanded on Wednesday. In response to recent legislation passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s conservative government to ban Pride parades in Hungary, over half of fellow European Union member states signed an open letter demanding that Budapest reverse course or face punishment from Brussels. The “declaration” was signed by the countries of Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, and Sweden. […]...
  • Vladimir Zhirinovsky: Russia will arm to seize countries of former Soviet Union

    07/04/2015 9:30:50 AM PDT · by Astralike · 16 replies
    Joinfo.com ^ | 4/07/2015 | Joinfo.com
    Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an odious leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia has approved militarization of the Russian Federation and said that all the countries of the former Soviet Union were a zone of Russian interests. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia praised the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, which began to verify the legitimacy of recognition of independence of the Baltic republics by the State Council of the USSR in 1991, Joinfo.ua reports referring to the Russian media...
  • Denmark leads attack on European Court of Human Rights

    05/24/2025 10:31:31 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 19 replies
    EU Observer ^ | May 23, 2025, 9:00:37 AM | Nikolaj Nielsen
    Nine EU states are targeting the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights in a wider bid to deport unwanted migrants. A letter spearheaded by Denmark, which is set to take over the rotating EU presidency from July, is demanding more leeway on deporting people who have committed crimes. Published on Thursday (22 May), the letter was signed by leaders of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, and Poland. It faults the court for placing rights restrictions on deportations of "criminal foreign nationals". They are also unhappy on how the court interprets the European Convention on Human Rights,...
  • Russian economic meltdown as oil runs out and Kremlin stops paying pensions

    05/14/2025 9:30:04 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 28 replies
    Express UK ^ | 5/14/2025 | John Varga
    Russia's supply of cheap oil is running out, another major blow for Vladimir Putin as he continues to grapple with a growing economic crisis. Businesses and consumers across the country are reeling under the effects of spiralling inflation and high interest rates. In April, the Central Bank confirmed it would keep the key interest rate at 21% for the foreseeable future, much to the bitter disappointment of the Kremlin and business leaders. Many firms are fighting to stay afloat, as they attempt to pay back bank loans originally secured during more favourable economic times. -snip- Gazprom Neft CEO Alexander Dyukov...
  • Soviet Secret Service Founder's Statue Unveiled In Moscow, Faces Northwest 'Threat'

    09/11/2023 5:46:25 AM PDT · by tlozo · 12 replies
    Radio Free Europe ^ | September 11, 2023 | Unnamed
    A statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police, Cheka, was unveiled in front of the headquarters of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in Moscow on September 11. The statue is a replica of a larger Dzerzhinsky statue, one of the symbols of Soviet repression, which was pulled from its pedestal outside KGB headquarters in August 1991. SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin said at the ceremony for the statue's unveiling that Dzerzhinsky's face on the original and new statues is turned toward Poland and Baltic states "because the threat to Russia from the northwest remains."
  • Poland aims for up to a million mines on eastern borders amid Russia threat

    03/21/2025 7:00:16 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 55 replies
    TVP World ^ | 3/20/2025 | Staff
    Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia intend to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning the use and stockpiling of anti-personnel mines, the defense ministers of the four countries have announced in a joint statement. The ministers said that since signing the treaty, “the security situation in our region has fundamentally deteriorated.” Leaving the 1997 treaty, which has been ratified or acceded to by more than 160 nations but not by Russia, will allow Poland and the three Baltic countries to start stockpiling landmines again. The ministers highlighted the threat posed by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine, describing the situation as...
  • Continuing Conflict: Europe after the First World War

    02/25/2025 4:14:31 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 5 replies
    In many parts of Europe and beyond, the end of the First World War did not mean an end to the fighting. >Russian Civil War 1917-1923 ... >Finnish Civil War 1918 Finland was a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire when the First World War broke out. The Russian Revolution in 1917 left a power vacuum in Finland and a struggle ensued between the conservative Whites who wanted independence from Soviet Russia and the socialist Reds who opposed the separation. >German Revolution 1918-1919 ... >Estonian-Soviet 1918-1920 Estonia was part of the Russian Empire when the First World War began. It...
  • The leaders of several countries have just arrived in Kyiv for an unannounced emergency summit on Ukraine:

    02/24/2025 4:10:02 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 62 replies
    X.com ^ | 3:24 AM · Feb 24, 2025 | Visegrád 24✓@visegrad24
    🇨🇦 Canada 🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇮 Finland 🇳🇴 Norway 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇱🇹 Lithuania Several more are still expected
  • Russia announces extraordinary missile tests close to Latvia's sea border

    03/31/2018 12:45:54 PM PDT · by vg0va3 · 16 replies
    Public broadcasting of Latvia ^ | march 29, 17:10 | eng.lsm.lv (Latvian Public Broadcasting English-language service)
    "Russia's Chief Air Traffic Control Center has informed the Latvian Civil Aviation Agency that the Russian Navy plans to conduct missile launches from 06:00 to 18:00 April 4 to 6 in the airspace above Latvia's exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea," the ministry said. The Latvian Ministry of Defense has summoned the Russian Federation's military attache and expressed dissatisfaction with the situation, "noting that, despite the fact that international agreements do not prevent Russia from conducting such training in this territory, its actions are challenging and more likely to be considered as a demonstration of power." Responding to the...
  • Putin Ally Calls for Alaska's Return to Russia

    12/28/2024 2:08:52 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 75 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 12/28/2024 | Natalie Venegas
    Russian TV host Vladimir Solovyov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, recently called for Alaska's return to Russia during a recent Russian-state media program. -snip- During the recent program, Solovyov said Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics, Moldova, and Alaska should be "returned to the Russian Empire." "Do you think I'm joking when I mention Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics, Moldova? Everything returned to the Russian Empire. And Alaska too, while you're at it," Solovyov said in a translated video.
  • COURT ACE TRAGEDY Basketball star Janis Timma plunges to his death aged 32 in Moscow after facing backlash for playing in Putin’s Russia

    12/17/2024 6:38:26 AM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 25 replies
    The US Sun ^ | 17 Dec 2024 | Juliana Cruz Lima
    The 32-year-old, who had a great career playing for teams like Zenit Saint Petersburg and Orlando Magic, was discovered in the stairway of the high-rise building.
  • Russian intelligence hit squad behind Havana Syndrome brain injuries of US personnel: report

    04/01/2024 10:36:40 AM PDT · by canuck_conservative · 68 replies
    Newsweek ^ | April 1, 2024 | Snejana Farberov
    Members of Russian military intelligence unit 29155, who allegedly have access to microwave or ultrasound weapons, had been placed at the scene of reported attacks that resulted in US personnel suffering health problems, according to a year-long investigation by the Latvia-based Insider in collaboration with CBS’s “60 Minutes” and Germany’s Der Spiegel. Christo Grozev, the head of investigations with The Insider, told “60 Minutes” that he uncovered accounting records that show a 29155 officer received a bonus for work related to the development of “non-lethal acoustic weapons.” Unit 29155 has reportedly operated around the world since 2008, and is suspected...
  • Drugs worth over 400 mln euros seized in Latvia, eight arrested including Armenian citizen

    10/10/2024 11:05:57 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 4 replies
    APA AZ ^ | 10 10 2024 | Staff
    Law enforcement in Latvia has seized a haul of drugs worth at least 400 million euros (437.8 million U.S. dollars) from a clandestine narcotics lab in Latvia, the State Police said Thursday, APA reports citing Xinhua. Eight members of the criminal group, aged 24 to 35, were detained during the police operation last week in the northeastern Aluksne municipality. They include five Ukrainian citizens, two Polish citizens, and one Armenian citizen. The largest such operation in the country was conducted simultaneously in several cities and towns across Latvia, involving seven raids. Police seized more than one ton of the synthetic...
  • Baltic Troops Ready To Enter Ukraine

    08/18/2024 6:01:44 AM PDT · by Tom Tetroxide · 56 replies
    Youtube ^ | 16AUG2024 | The Military Show
    Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have issued a chilling warning: they're prepared to send troops into Ukraine without NATO approval. Fearing Russia's growing aggression, these Baltic nations see themselves as next in line. With historical ties to the Soviet Union and recent Russian threats, they're taking matters into their own hands. Will NATO step in? Or will the Baltics become the first domino to fall?
  • Rick Santorum’s Virginia Church and Opus Dei

    03/08/2012 3:53:19 PM PST · by HokieMom · 32 replies
    The New Republic ^ | March 6, 2012 | Molly Redden
    Rick Santorum’s Catholic faith is an obvious centerpiece of his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, and it is rare for him to speak without referencing his religious beliefs. It is also rare, however, to hear him speak about his particular church, St. Catherine of Siena, which he and his family have belonged to for at least a decade. Even his 2005 manifesto on his personal faith and politics, It Takes a Family, did not mention the church. I was curious to learn more about it, so last Friday morning, I attended a 9 a.m. Mass there. St. Catherine is...
  • Baltics join the ammunitions race

    06/08/2024 6:55:38 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 26 replies
    DW ^ | June 7, 2024 | Henry-Laur Allik
    With a shortage of mortar shells in reserves across Europe, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are setting up their own ammunition factories to be ready in case of a potential attack from Russia. In Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — three Baltic states on the edge of the European Union that all share a border with Russia — defense is a key concern. All the more so, since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022. According to NATO statistics, the defense spending of the three states greatly exceeded the minimum 2% of GDP in 2023, and...
  • Baltic Sea countries remain vigilant after Moscow mulls altering its sea border

    05/23/2024 11:24:02 AM PDT · by MeganC · 27 replies
    Euronews ^ | Published on 23/05/2024 - 07:17 | By Euronews with AP
    <p>Baltic leaders reacted warily on Wednesday to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region.</p><p>In a draft proposal reported by some Russian media, Russia's Defence Ministry suggests updating the coordinates used to measure the strip of territorial waters off of its mainland coast and that of its islands in the Baltic Sea.</p>
  • Russia Is Threatening to Expand Its Borders Again—This Time in the Baltic Sea

    05/22/2024 5:19:44 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 46 replies
    Daily Beast ^ | May 22, 2024 | Allison Quinn
    Russia’s Defense Ministry has unilaterally moved to revise the borders of Russian territorial waters in the Baltic Sea, drafting a government decree on the expansion without even bothering to notify NATO members Finland and Lithuania. In reaction to the surprised responses of the Baltic Sea states, the Kremlin on Wednesday issued a statement that seems bound only to make matters worse. Insisting that there’s “nothing political” about the proposed border change, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in the same breath that the “political situation” has in fact “changed significantly” since the borders were drawn. “You see how tensions are...
  • Top Ukraine Official Warns Russia Could Capture 'Baltics in 7 Days'

    05/05/2024 7:24:49 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 43 replies
    Newsweek ^ | May 3, 2024 | Jon Jackson
    A senior Ukrainian intelligence official warned about the threat Moscow poses on other nations in Europe, saying "the Russians will take the Baltics in seven days" if allies don't stand up to Russia now. The comment was made by Major-General Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of Ukraine's military intelligence directorate (GUR), during an interview with The Economist published on Thursday. The alarm has been sounded before about the potential of Russian President Vladimir Putin looking to start conflicts in the Baltic states. Earlier this year, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote that the Russian leader appeared to...
  • Russia’s NATO border states are building a massive new defensive line against invasion

    04/29/2024 4:16:11 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 26 replies
    The Daily Digest ^ | March 3, 2024
    Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia are building massive new fortifications along their borders with both Russia and Belarus in order to create a common defense line against possible future invasions by Moscow or its allies in Minsk. The Baltic Defense Line as the project has come to be known was an important piece of a new agreement struck between the three nations aimed at reinforcing NATO’s borders with Russia, and the defense will only get tougher. Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds noted in a statement about the new agreement that he and the defense ministers of Estonia and Lithuania approved the...