Decades after leaving the Soviet Union the Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia - All remaining transmission lines between them and Russia and Belarus and will be switched off one by on ...

The switchover to the European electricity network, which Baltic leaders said held geopolitical and symbolic significance, ...

The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed.

Belarusians hope for 'no war' Most people in Belarus have only distant memories of life in the landlocked country before Lukashenko, who was 39 when he won the first national election in Belarus since ...

Residential 10 floors USSR Multistory Building at a Sleeping Area of City, Aerial View. Flying near the facade of the building near the windows. Block panel house for families. Flying in the town.

Soviet-style rule so long following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Indeed, Belarus’s specific geographical location, between the democratic European Union and authoritarian Russia, makes ...

"When the Soviet Union collapsed, those countries gained or regained their legal independence from ... Despite that bitter experience, Ukraine tried to negotiate with Russia after the first invasion ...

Minsk was also destroyed, and people had to rebuilt it from scratch ... If Western youth knows that Hitler was actually defeated by the Soviet Union, and that Soviet troops liberated Europe from the ...