On 18 May 1984 a formidable pear-shaped cloud emerged over the outskirts of the city and people were escaping in panic – the imitator of nuclear explosion went off in the warehouses of the fleet. Now Kaliningrad is under the threat of even more portentous perspective. Rusty arsenals, utilization of which is failing, are ready to go up…

On 22 June the Government of the Russian Federation submitted to the President Putin the Border Agreement between Russia and Latvia for the delivery to the GosDuma for its ratification. Actually only some six days were left for this before the session on 2 – 7 July.

By the end of June two respectable political scientists in Moscow, Evgenij Kozokin, Director of the Russian Institute of Strategic Investigations, and Sergej Markov, political scientist, expressed their opinion on the issues of Latvian-Russian relations.

The European Union introduced economic sanctions against Minsk.

Mutual relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation in the sphere of trade and economics should be moved away from the critical point they are at the moment.

Latvia and Estonia are working on a particular document concerning the future development of bilateral relations and strengthening of strategic cooperation between the two countries.

Russia is not going to start the repair of the oil pipeline „Druzba“ in the section bound towards the territory of Lithuania, stated Viktor Christenko, the Head of the Ministry of the Industrial Energy.

A conference of the Baltic Regional Energy Forum is going to be held in Riga on 11 – 13 June. Similar event of this level on this topic has not been organised in Latvia for five years.

On 25-26 May 2007 the International public organisation „The Baltic Forum" is organising the 12th international conference in Riga. The main topic of the Conference – „The EU and Russia: negotiating new relationship“.

Head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso warned Russia against attempting to bring misunderstandings between the members of the EU.

The name of the Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Modest Kolerov, who is in charge for inter-regional and cultural relations with foreign countries, may, probably, be put on the list of persons, who are forbidden entrance to Lithuania.

The route of oil pipeline from Odessa to Gdansk has drawn its second breath.

Andris Ansip, Prime Minister of Estonia, refused to receive Gerhardt Schroeder, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the North-European pipeline, and the operator of the company Nord Stream.

Recently Russian politicians and media give a lot of time on the radio and TV, using a lot of printing paint for attacking Estonians, despite the fact that Russia is the largest country in the world by the area with 150 million inhabitants.

From the 1^st of June Russia is raising export duty tariffs on oil and oil products. It is an internal measure for Russia, but it will inevitably blow on its Western neighbours as well.

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.