About 1,500 Russians are now in exile, trying to start a fresh life while reporting on events in their homeland

The first wave of bellicose statements by the Finnish and Estonian authorities, who reacted sharply to the alleged "Russian trace" in the December incident with the damage of the Estlink 2 underwater electric cable anchor from the Eagle S oil

RIGA - NATO needs to strengthen its presence in the Baltic Sea and tackle Russia's "shadow fleet", President Edgars Rinkevics said Tuesday while participating in the Baltic Sea NATO allies summit in Helsinki, Finland.

In Riga Russian Theatre's rehearsal room, actors gather for a table-read of the season's big premiere, "Lady Macbeth" -- but the play's poster will not crop up around the Latvian capital as it normally would.

The White House, now unconcerned about the effect on gas prices and inflation, blacklisted two of Russia’s biggest oil producers and nearly 200 tanker ships.

"The Aleksander Lukashenko regime in Belarus is an ally of Russia in its war of aggression against Ukraine. It continues to carry out repression and violence against its own people, while ceding Belarusian sovereignty to Russia. We will continue to strengthen EU sanctions and support Belarusian civil society outside the country," said Braze.

Russian-sponsored disruption of underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea will continue and escalate unless such activities are met with a firm response from NATO countries, Lithuania’s new Foreign Affairs Minister Kęstutis Budrys told journalists in the Latvian capital Riga on Thursday,

KYIV - Russian forces launched air attacks on Kyiv and other locations in Ukraine early Saturday morning, killing at least three in the capital, officials said - the latest deadly assault on Ukraine aimed at weakening the country during the cold winter months.

Swedish soldiers arrived in Riga to support the NATO Multinational Brigade under Canadian command. This marks a historic contribution to regional security. About 550 soldiers from the Swedish military contingent arrived in Latvia on Saturday to reinforce the NATO Multinational Brigade under Canadian command.

Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO's eastern flank, a mission Sweden is calling its most significant operation so far as a member of the Western defense alliance.

US securocrats pushed for expansionist policies in the 1990s that set the West and Russia on a path of confrontation.