THE BALTIC STATES

        

                                                                                                         Where are the Baltic States?

                                                                         Click on the globe GLOBEto locate the area

 

 

This area includes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, three democratic nations, new EU and NATO members, formerly occupied and annexed by the USSR.

 

All the three nations have significant Russian-speaking diasporas, the fact causing constant tensions with the government of Russian Federation.

 

Latvia and Estonia still have unresolved territorial disputes with Russia going back to the end of World War II. Lithuania had territorial dispute with Poland nowadays completely resolved

  

 

ETHNIC MINORITIES OF LATVIA:

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

 

 

 

CLICK ON THE NAME OF THE COUNTRY TO SEE POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF THE NATION:

 

 

 

 

ESTONIA

 

LATVIA

 

LITHUANIA

 

 

xe.com

 

 

SUPPORT THIS

WEB RESOURCE

 

All the basic information about Baltic-related territorial and inter-ethnic issues, can be found below in "Brief History" section:

 

  

 

Click  HERE

 

for the

 

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AREA

 

with historical maps

and  illustrations

 

 

 

 

Drapeau animé d'Estonie par Pascal GrossEstonia: Government, Parties & Media

http://www.politicalresources.net/estonia.htm

 

Drapeau animé de Lettonie par Pascal GrossLatvia: Government, Parties & Media

http://www.politicalresources.net/latvia.htm   

 

Drapeau animé de Lituanie par Pascal GrossLithuania: Government, Parties & Media

http://www.politicalresources.net/lithuania.htm

 

 

Visit YETT

(Young Experts’ Think Tank)

for related articles

 

 SEE ALSO:    POLAND

                                    FINLAND

                                    INGRIA

 

CRIMES OF COMMUNISM IN THE BALTIC STATES

 

 

 

 

LATVIAN FLEET FIGHTING FOR THE ALLIES UNDER LATVIAN FLAG IN 1940-1945

 

 

 THE FOREST BROTHERS

Scarcely known anti-imperialist fighters of the Baltic States (1944-1950)
                       

                         THE BALTIC LEGIONNAIRES: WHY DID THEY PUT ON THAT UNIFORM?

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

 

Bremmer, Jan & Taras, Ray:  

New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations,

CambridgeUniversity Press, 1997

 

The Black Book of Communism,   Harward University Press,  2000

 

Clemens, Walter C.:

The Baltic Transformed (New International Relations of Europe)

Rowman & Littlefield, 2000

 

Eksteins, Modris:  

Walking Since Daybreak,

Key Porter Books, 1999

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                   

 

 

 .