The Russian prosecutor general’s office is to review the legality of the recognition of the Baltic republics by the State Council of the USSR in 1991, according to the state news agency Interfax.
A “source familiar with the situation” told the agency that two Russian parliamentary deputies had requested that the prosecutor’s office investigate the Baltic states’ independence, in a move which has been described by the Lithuanian foreign ministers as an “absurd provocation”.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were occupied by the Soviet Union from 1940 until the USSR broke up in 1991. The latter two countries both have large numbers of …read more
Source: Newsweek