Obama’s visit will do little to lift the small Baltic state’s familiar feelings of powerlessness next to its Russian neighbourWhen Barack Obama lands in Estonia on Wednesday he will find a country anxious not just about the intentions of its big eastern neighbour but of its new western allies too.Obama’s whistlestop tour is arguably the most important presidential visit that this tiny Baltic republic has had since independence in 1991. Events in Ukraine have alarmed Estonia another country that shares a border with Russia, has a large Russian-speaking minority and which was occupied by the Soviet Union for almost …read more
Source: The Guardian
