scholarly journals The military security of the Baltic Region and the NATO military infrastructure approximating the border of the Russian Federation

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1151-1165
Author(s):  
A.A. Kovalev ◽  
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A.I. Balashov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Military Security ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals Направления реализации стратегии национальной безопасности стран Балтийского региона

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Bolshakov
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Defense Policy ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Military Security ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Informational Environment ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Military

The article analyzes the strategy and principles of building the national security strat-egy of the Russian Federation, considers the priorities of ensuring national security. Security doc-trines are aimed at security in the military, political, and informational environment. The article highlights the priority tasks in the field of national defense of the Russian Federation. The review analyzes the integrated security strategies of the countries of the Baltic region – Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia; analyzes the effectiveness of the doctrine of “total defense” of Estonia, the procedure and forms of its implementation. It is stated that the Baltic countries are considering various options to improve security, the concept of “total defense”, is based on the protection of the position of neu-trality, the defense policy of the countries is based on cooperation with large European and regional countries (Finland, Sweden, Poland). The article states that the military security of countries is associated with the need to deepen cooperation with NATO. The doctrine of territorial defense of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, directions of defense policy and territorial security is analyzed.

scholarly journals MILITARY-POLITICAL CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE NATO MEMBER STATES IN THE BALTIC REGION

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
IGOR TSEPENDA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Member States ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Baltic

This article analyses a range of problems faced by the NATO member states in the Baltic region in connection with Russian aggression in Ukraine. It is indicated that the Russian Federation boosts its military presence in the Kaliningrad Oblast: it deploys advanced missile systems and armored fighting vehicles to the region, increases its military contingent and rearms its Navy in the Baltic Sea. It is stressed that Russia has violated the 1987 Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-range and Shorter-range Missiles (the INF Treaty) and in recent years has been conducting large-scale military exercises. It is pointed out that amid the growing threat from Russia, the countries of the Baltic region have to reconsider their military strategies, to join their efforts in order to prevent any possible aggression. The NATO member states, the United States of America in particular, take part in the military drills in the region. Sweden’s military cooperation with NATO and the United States of America – a controversial issue in Swedish political circles – is discussed. The question of enhancing military interaction between the members of NATO – Germany and Norway, the Unites States and Poland – is addressed too. The advantages of building collective missile defense capability in the Baltic region and taking other steps to restrain Russia’s aggressive actions are indicated.

scholarly journals New Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation: To Methodological Inaccuracies of Concepts

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
O.А. Ryzhov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Military Doctrine ◽  
Military Security ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Military

The content of the Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation and the Law of the Russian Federation «On Countering Terrorism» is considered, the essential definitions of the main concepts are analyzed, which, according to the author, lead to methodological inaccuracies and misunderstandings of the official state document. The author’s definitions of military dangers and threats to modern Russia, as well as threats to its military security are given.

scholarly journals Military-Political Threats in Connection with the Probable Military Escalation in the Central European Region

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-151
Author(s):  
Anton Bondarenko
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
European Region ◽  
Preventive Action ◽  
Central European ◽  
The North ◽  
Central European Region ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Military

The article analyzes the military-political threats to Ukrainian statehood in regard to political events in the Russian Federation and a possible military escalation in the Central European region. It is noted that the Russian Federation authorities used the same strategy of regional destabilization with subsequent massive military intervention. The authoritarian Kremlin regime can protect itself exclusively with aggressive external policy and, finding itself on the rubicon of the loss of power, may resort to sharp destabilizing steps including the onset of a full-scale war in Central Europe. The geopolitical processes consisting of the latest events in the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation are analyzed. It is stated that as a result of the Kremlin’s aggressive policy, the entire Central European region can be at risk of military escalation. Analysis of the military-political situation indicates that in 2021 a bold plan of the Russian Federation, similar to the aggression against Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014, may be implemented in the Central European region, the process probably initiated by the armed confrontation in Belarus provoked by the Kremlin’s secret services. NATO military analysts have been considering the possibility of Russian military aggression against the Baltic states since 2014, with the most vulnerable point being the Polish-Lithuanian border between Belarus and Kaliningrad region of Russia, the so-called Suwalki Gap. The same vulnerable area of potential instability and hostilities is the border between Belarus and Ukraine. Under the conditions of the occupation of Crimea and the continuation of the undeclared war in Donbas, the hypothetical aggression of the Russian Federation in the North-Western regions of Ukraine threatens the Ukrainian statehood itself. Such a critical strategic threat requires urgent preventive action.

scholarly journals Small sea, big problems: chances and challenges of military security in Baltic region

2020 ◽  
Vol 197 (3) ◽  
pp. 620-631
Author(s):  
Michał Piekarski
Keyword(s):  
Coast Guard ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Special Operations ◽  
Maritime Traffic ◽  
Military Security ◽  
Special Operations Forces ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Military

The article aims to analyze the chances and challenges related to the military security of states surrounding the Baltic Sea. Notably, the problem of the protection of maritime traffic and other sea-related economic activities shall be described. Particular attention shall be given to possible scenarios of “hybrid warfare.” Based on possible threats characteristics, several aspects of changes in organizations and ways of employment of naval forces, border, and coast guard forces and special operations forces.

scholarly journals Military Cooperation of Ukraine and the Baltic States (1991-2017)

2017 ◽  
pp. 165-220
Author(s):  
Ruslana Martseniuk
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
International Security ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Military Cooperation ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Military Security ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Baltic

The article analyzes the main stages of military cooperation between Ukraine and the Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia) from the establishment of diplomatic relations after the collapse of the USSR and to this day. The reasons for the activation of the mentioned cooperation in the conditions of the crisis of the international security system, which is connected with Russian aggression and violation of international security agreements. Today, in order to counteract the armed aggression in the militarization of the Russian Federation, one of the most urgent areas for ensuring Ukraine’s military security is the following: effective use of bilateral and multilateral cooperation with partners and allies in the military sphere; implementation of standards and principles of NATO member states; involvement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the international operations of NATO and the EU. So today in the conditions of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation towards Ukraine and the threat of security and tranquility in Europe, the Baltic countries provide Ukraine with military and economic assistance both within NATO and on a bilateral basis. This is the supply of ammunition that the Ukrainian Armed Forces needs in the forefront and assistance in the treatment and rehabilitation of our wounded soldiers and active assistance in providing professional advisers for military affairs and tactical medicine. The security dimension of relations between our countries is also the creation of a unique international military formation of LITPOLUKRBRIG, which practically allows us to work out our military interoperability and compatibility and is one of the largest and ambitious military cooperation projects.

scholarly journals Possible Directions of NATO Military Operations Against the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation (Based on Materials from Open Publications)

2021 ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Yury Zverev
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
The North ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Kaliningrad Region ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Military Exercise

The article is devoted to the possible directions of NATO military operations against the Kaliningrad region as an anti-access and area  denial zone (A2/AD), which interferes with the plans of the North Atlantic Alliance in the Baltic region (based on materials from open publications of winter-spring 2021). Shows the danger and unrealizability of these intentions (including on the basis of the results of the Polish military exercise Zima-20).

scholarly journals A functional description of the model for the protection of the environmental interests of the Russian Federation in the Baltic Sea region

Baltic Region ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-59
Author(s):  
Tatiana S. Volchetskaya ◽  
Elena N. Cholopova
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Functional Description ◽  
Baltic Sea Region ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Environmental Interests

This article identifies the objective conditions of the conflict between the interests of development and those of environmental security. The latter are given added urgency when, within the same ecological unit, one country needs to develop and another to protect its environmental interests. The borders of the countries and regions, the economies of which affect the safety of Russia’s interests in the Baltic, do not coincide with the boundaries of the ecosystems. This calls for a study of the legal protection of Russia’s environmental interests in the Baltic Sea region. There is no legal mechanism for ensuring a balance between the interests of development and those of environmental security of the countries that have shorelines along the Baltic Sea. Thus, it is necessary to give a functional description of the regional model for the legal protection of the environmental interests of the Russian Federation in the Baltic region. To this end, we identify the juridical content of the environmental interests of the Russian Federation. We consider the possibilities of the legal protection of the environmental interests in the national and international jurisdiction. The interests are divided into two groups respectively. We reveal the essence of the environmental interests of the Russian Federation in the Baltic Sea region. We analyse the case of the Russian regions located within the Baltic Sea catchment area to test an approach to identifying the region’s boundaries. This approach may be used in modelling the regional level of the legal protection of Russia’s environmental interests in the Baltic region. We identify the environmental interests of the Russian Federation in the Baltic Sea region, as well as the forms of legal protection of the country’s interests in this territory. We describe the elements of the system of the legal protection of Russia’s interests in the Baltic region and examine the functions of these elements. The result of this study is a functional description of the model of legal protection of the environmental interests of the Russian Federation in the Baltic region. This model may be used to strengthen the links between the elements of the protection of the legitimate interests of the Russian Federation in the Baltic region.

Documents Accuse: The Post-Soviet Memory Politics of Genocide

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-57
Author(s):  
Paula Chan
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Soviet Jews ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Baltic

Since the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the Holocaust and other charges of genocide have emerged as flashpoints in memory wars between the Russian Federation and the Baltic states. This article examines the Russian government’s revival of the longstanding Soviet practice of publishing archival documents focused on Baltic participation in Nazi atrocities against Jews and other victims. It argues that state officials and historians in Russia and the Baltic countries continue to shape their usable pasts in response to one another. The Russian focus on Baltic collaboration with Hitler’s regime has fueled defensive rhetoric in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania that has diminished and denied the role that local perpetrators played in the wartime persecution of Jews. Russia, in turn, has reacted to charges of a Nazi-Stalinist “Double Genocide” in the Baltic region by launching a campaign for international recognition of genocide against the “Soviet people”—Soviet Jews among them. To date, Western political scientists and policymakers have focused on Russia as propagating illiberal movement through disinformation. This study demonstrates how the publication of wartime archival documents contributes to illiberal memory politics both at home and among Russia’s detractors in the Baltic region.

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