The meeting of the RF representative with the Presidents of Lithuania and Latvia gives hope on restoring relations with the Baltic neighbours.

Russian army is suspected of throwing chemical armament and nuclear waste from Liepaja into the Baltic Sea at the beginning of the 90-ties in the region of the GotlandIsland, reported Swedish TV.

Russian tanks may enter the territory of Moldova at any moment for defending the citizens of the Russian Federation, as it has happened in August 2008 in Georgia.

Draft law on Stocktaking of Belarusian armament supply is going to be submitted for approval to both Houses of the US Congress.

USA is going to locate the battery of antiaircraft missile complexes Patriot in the Northern Poland in April this year, stated the representatives of the Polish Defence Ministry.

Intimidation that Belarus might cut the supply of electricity to the Kaliningrad region is groundless. Such opinion was given by Aleksandr Rolbinov, the Minister of Infrastructure Development for the Kaliningrad region, reported on 13 January ИА REGNUM News.

The President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite is considering a possibility of inviting Presidents of neighbouring countries to the commemoration event of 20 years of the restoration of Lithuanian independence, including the countries that are not EU member states – Belarus and Russia.

Since Monday, 4 January, the Baltic Battalion, created for performing military operations within the NATO, is ready for military service.

In response to the proposal of Ainars Schlesser, the Vice-mayor of Riga, related to the permission of temporary stay in Latvia for important large scale investors, Russia voices for full withdrawal of visa regime with Latvia, accepting the proposal of Schlesser as interim version, in the next year already.

Terms of the contract, according to which Russian oil is currently supplied to the European Union via the territory of Ukraine, should be revised.

Estonia should be included into the euro zone as from 2011, since this is essential for the financial stabilization and for the prosperity of the Eastern Europe, wrote Reuter’s observer Paul Taylor in his article published in the New York Times.

The USA has agreed with Poland on putting up a new military basis in this country in 2010 and the dislocation of modern ABM complexes Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3), and the military staff.

Russian military forces shall be withdrawn from Transnistria, stated Michai Gimpu, the acting President of Moldova and simultaneously the Head of the Parliament of the Republic at the meeting with the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ambassador Charlampos Christopoulos.

The authorities of the Baltic state gave priority to military training exercises against Russia instead of the NATO trainings.

On 24 October following the initiative of the public organisation LATO a conference "Transatlantic agenda: Baltic perspectives in 2010.” was held in Riga.

For effective complex defence of Latvia, the establishment of a permanent division of the National Armed Forces has started in Latgale, reported the official website of the Ministry of Defence.

On 13 January a concert "Together to the victory" was held in Lithuania, where the audience decided to support Ukraine's defence and donated 110 thousand Euros.

Alexander Lukashenko on 9 January signed a decree № 8 "On the establishment of visa-free entry and exit of foreign nationals." The document establishes visa-free entry to Belarus for a period not exceeding 5 days at the entrance through the checkpoint "National Airport Minsk" for citizens of 80 countries, - reported the press service of the President of Belarus.