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Trump, Russia and the New Geopolitics of the Baltics

Research Fellow Kalev Stoicescu was interviewed by the New Eastern Europe on US-Russian relations, in connection with the Trump-Putin telephone conversation.

Commentary

There Are No Simple Solutions

The inauguration of the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, on the 20th of January 2017 will certainly mark the beginning of a new and unpredictable period in world affairs.

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Director of the Carnegie Moscow Centre: Putin Likes the Fact That Trump Is Not Another Hypocritical Western Leader

The outgoing US administration painted itself into a corner with the Ukraine issue, says Dmitri Trenin.

Commentary

The Swansong of the Old Media

The mainstream media failed to recognize the disposition of the American people.

Publications

Baltics in the Balance? The Race for the American Presidency and the Risks for European Security

The upcoming U.S. elections are a crossroads for American security guarantees to Europe.

Commentary

Kurt Volker: “Russia Has No Interest in Cooperation with NATO”

NATO enlargement is far from over, the former US Permanent Representative to NATO believes.

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The Role of the United States in the Restoration of Estonia’s Independence

Congress was the strongest ally of expatriates from the Baltic States in implementing the US non-recognition policy.

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From Non-Recognition to the Exchange of Diplomats: US Baltic Policy in August–September 1991

On 27 August 1991, five days after the coup in Moscow had collapsed and Estonia and Latvia had joined Lithuania in declaring that they had restored their de facto independence, Estonian foreign minister Lennart Meri telephoned me. “Paul,” he said, “no one here expected the US to be the first” to recognise Estonia’s independence, “but at the current rate other countries are doing so, you’re not going to make the top 25”.