Paul Goble
Staunton, Aug. 21 – Mezhdunarodnaya zhizn’, the journal of the Russian Foreign Ministry, features an article in its current issue by Nikolay Mezhevich, a senior scholar at Moscow’s Institute of Europe, declaring that the region around the Baltic Sea has become “a potential theater of military operations.”
The Russian specialist on Europe argues that the situation in that region has deteriorated to the point that is it irreversible because only parties opposed to Russia have any chance of coming to power (for the article itself, interaffairs.ru/jauthor/material/3255; for a discussion of it, novayagazeta.ee/articles/2025/08/21/zhurnal-mid-rf-opublikoval-statiu-gde-predlozhil-schitat-region-baltiiskogo-moria-potentsialnym-teatrom-voennykh-deistvii-news).
Moreover, Mezhevich says that these countries are working with the UK and Germany with their strategic goal being “the establishment of a military, political and economic threat to Russia and Belarus.” Moscow cannot fail to take note of this development and take steps to be ready to counter it.
Mezhdunarodnaya zhizn’ is a bellwether of Russian foreign policy, and the appearance of this article, with the provocative title “The Baltics: Guarantees of Danger,” suggests that there is currently a hardening of Russia attitudes toward the Baltic countries and neighboring states not only in the Russian foreign ministry but in the Kremlin as well.
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