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The Gathering Storm: As the Baltic States Prepare to Disconnect from the Russian Power Grid, the Kremlin is Ready to ‘Help’

Justinas Juozaitis

2 August 201914 Minute Read

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the opening of the offshore gas receiving terminal and floating storage and regasification unit Marshal Vasilevskiy in Kaliningrad, January 2019. The installation of this gas supply project removes Russian dependence on

With the Baltic states on-track to become independent from centralised Russian control over their power networks, the Kremlin has demonstrated an alarming potential to disconnect them from its power grid before they are ready to join the continental European network.

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The Gathering Storm: As the Baltic States Prepare to Disconnect from the Russian Power Grid, the Kremlin is Ready to ‘Help’

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