Leaning on the Balts. (Russia withdraws troops from Baltic states but maintains economic and political pressure)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: August 27, 1994 | Copyright information

MOURNING the departure of an occupying army that has devastated your country may seem perverse. Yet for the three Baltic states-- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania--the cloud of Russian troops had a silver lining: it attracted forthright sympathy from other countries, and showed up Russia's bullying in its former colonies. The troops and sympathy will now go; the bullying will stay.

On August 31st the second world war will be deemed to have ended in Europe with the departure of the remaining Russian forces from Germany, and, almost entirely, from Estonia and Latvia (they have already ...

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