The office of Russia’s Prosecutor General is reviewing the legality of independence granted to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 1991 by the State Council of the former Soviet Union.
The move, announced by the office Tuesday, has alarmed the Baltic States and strained even further their increasingly tense ties with Moscow, since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March of 2014 and the pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine. All three countries have since increased their military spending.
Two lawmakers from the majority United Russia party, once headed by President Vladimir Putin, argued in their appeal to prosecutors that granting independence to …read more
Source: Voice of America
