Getting better: Nordic security. (relations between Russia and Baltic countries improve as Russia scales down its military presence in the Baltic Sea; Denmark and Finland want to align with Europe and NATO)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: December 6, 1997 | Copyright information

STOCKHOLM

BORIS YELTSIN'S jovial visit this week to Sweden, where he made friendly if absent-minded noises about creating a "regime of trust" in the north of Europe and round the Baltic rim, went down quite well with his hosts. His declaration that Russia was cutting naval and sea forces in his country's Nordic-nudging north-west, though later watered down, surprised everybody, including his own generals.

Less welcome, however, was his harping on the old Russian theme that north European and Baltic security should be separated from that of the rest of Europe. Two months ago a ...

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