on security, and through the prism of the baltic states. as former members of the soviet union, lithuania, estonia and latvia have been sounding the alarm about the existential threat they face from russia ever since theyjoined the nato alliance two decades ago. this year, they have been the loudest voices within the european union urging allies to go further and faster, raising the alarm about the kremlin s real intentions. this past week, the russians removed buoys that were marking the border with estonia on the narva river. the russian defence ministry briefly published a plan to revise its maritime border in the baltic sea, which was then quickly deleted, the kind of tactics that put all three countries on edge. the baltic states see two possibilities on the horizon. the first, if russia were to succeed in ukraine, is that they would try to exploit a weakened west. perhaps a surprise attack in the baltic states, followed up with a credible nuclear threat. the second scen
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Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok will not attend the summit of the Bucharest Nine, a group of European countries on the eastern edge of NATO in Riga on Tuesday, Latvian president's office said.
VILNIUS (Reuters) -Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok will not attend the summit of the Bucharest Nine, a group of European countries on the eastern edge of NATO in Riga on Tuesday, Latvian president's office said.
Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok will not attend the upcoming Bucharest Nine summit in Riga. The event will instead issue a statement from the presidents of Latvia, Romania, and Poland. Hungary's stance on Russia and Ukraine has led to tensions with other central European nations within NATO and the EU.