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After years of being a part of Yugoslavia, Slovenia finally became independent in 1991. The country is now a member of the EU and NATO. In the last 10 years, Slovenia has experienced an economical low and healed from it. Shutterstock The country enjoys bea...
However, the pain of the global EM equity rout has been Russia’s gain. Russia attracted not only football fans in June but also fund managers as Russian stocks have become the cheapest amongst the leading emerging markets after theApril 6 round of sanctionsimposed by the US on a number of...
Since the start of the Ukraine crisis, Russia has been holding snap military drills along its borders with the Baltic States at an increasing pace raising concerns that the exercises could one day be used as a cover to launch a quick invasion of the Baltics. The Telegraph reported on February...
and a "spectrum of responses" over Crimea and the Baltics, tensions have never been so high as NATO and the west led by the US continue to "poke the bear" so to speak, pushing closer to Russia's borders, imposing sanctions, and ratcheting up the rhetoric against Russia to the nth ...
“Once Warsaw assigns a defense cooperation agreement and burden sharing deal as previously pledged, there are may be other opportunities as well to move additional forces into Poland and the Baltics,” Esper added. In that way, he explained, troop pres...
At that point, the Baltics will turn off the six remaining high-voltage power lines linking them to Russia and Belarus. They’ll then operate autonomously for a day-and-a-half before switching to the continental European grid. “We basically rewired ourselves completely,” Tomas Jermalavicius,...
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