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Gazprom Takes on Lithuania in EU Policy Test Case
Gazprom on Thursday launched arbitration proceedings against Lithuania's plans to strip the Russian gas giant of its pipeline ownership, a test case for an European law designed to prevent monopolies. By Denis Pinchuk and Nerijus Adomaitis (March 1, 2012)
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Estonian Espionage is Far From an Embarrassment
Estonia should view the attention of Russian spies as a badge of honor. A public spy scandal normally counts as an embarrassment. It suggests treachery by individuals in positions of trust and severe failure by those who supervise them. So many in Estonia are wincing over the arrest of an officer in the Security Police (known as Kapo), Alexei Dressen. By Edward Lucas (March 1, 2012)
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How an American in Latvia Aided U.S. Troops
As the war in Afghanistan winds down, the U.S. now has the job of shipping out thousands of tons of military equipment. And there's an American in Riga, Latvia who knows how to get that gear in and out better than anyone else. By CBS News (March 1, 2012)
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Call to Baltic Communities
Members of the European Parliament together with the Unitas Foundation and NGO TuliPisar invite you and other Baltic communities across the world to hold commemoration events on March 25th, the launch day of the 1949 March deportations. Courtesy Estonian World Review (March 1, 2012)
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Putin and His Cronies Have Plundered Russia for a Decade, but Though He’ll Win Sunday’s Sham Election, His Days are Numbered
For the past four years, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister, and his sidekick Dmitry Medvedev, who has the nominal post of president, have been engaged in a huge propaganda operation to fool Russians and the West. By Edward Lucas (February 28, 2012)
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