From outpouring of support to hostility – how do Russians see Baltics today?
From outpouring of support to hostility – how do Russians see Baltics today? 81 People in Moscow march in solidarity with Lithuania carrying Russian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian flags. / AP Decades after thousands of Muscovites marched for Baltic independence, the mood in Russia today is a far cry from the outpouring of support in 1991. What has changed? Aliide Naylor, author of The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front, writes for LRT English. Thirty years ago this month, following the Soviet military suppression of Lithuania’s independence drive, between 300,000 and ...