Lack of trust disrupts gas project
“As a newcomer to politics I was shocked that there was so much distrust between the countries,” says Daniels Pavluts, minister of economics.
Why Lithuania wants to build it own LNG without listening neighbors?
Unlike Latvia and Estonia, the Lithuanian politicians chose a “tough” form of discussion when communicating with Gazprom.
Ukraine’s murky Black Sea tenders cast shadow over Norway
Interviews with Norwegian executives shed new light on murky Ukrainian deals in 2011, where rigs sold by Norwegian companies to unknown parties were resold to a Ukrainian state oil company in apparently fixed tenders for enormous mark-ups.
Russkiy Mir
In 2007, President Vladimir Putin established the Russkiy Mir foundation. Designed to promote Russian culture abroad, the foundation prides itself on being open. But Re:Baltica found consistent lack of transparency in the foundation’s activities in the Baltic states of Latvia,…
Who is the puppet and who is the master?
“I talk and negotiate with Riga, with Oleg Solodov and others. Even the money that we [the City of Tallinn] pay goes to Riga, not to Tallinn”, says Lev Vaino, referring to the 425,000 euro contract for the production and…
The Unknown Oligarch
In the nineties he was being hounded by irate depositors and the Prosecutor’s Office and was even forced to leave Latvia, but he still returned and created a media empire, which has an audience of millions in the Baltics. The…
Soft Power – Russia’s Instrument of Influence
“Russia uses its compatriots’ policy as a way of exerting soft power on neighboring countries. In order to reach as wide a group as possible, Russian policy-makers developed the concept of the “Russian World” – already in 2010 researcher Andris…
Spreading Democracy in Latvia, Kremlin Style
Why won’t Putin’s Russkiy Mir foundation disclose its non-profit activities in the Baltics?
Moscow’s Spin Machine in Estonia
Many Estonians view the philanthropy of the Russian state in their country as a deliberate effort to gain influence by creating ethnic divisions.