Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, often referred to as the Baltic states, are democracies and close U.S. allies. Strong U.S. relations with these three states are rooted in history. The United ...

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...

There is nothing extreme about the Baltic states’ hard-nosed view of Russia, says Latvia’s foreign minister Baiba Braže argues that it is time to abandon illusions of détente ...