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Latvia Monthly: Pro-Kremlin Narratives Undermine Baltic Sovereignty
Domestic opposition populist politicians disseminated narratives of institutional persecution and Latvia being undemocratic. At the same time pro-Kremlin channels systematically inverted geopolitical responsibility, reframing Russian military threats as defensive responses to Baltic aggression and portraying NATO membership as hidden subjugation. Together, these narratives construct an alternative reality designed to delegitimize Baltic institutions, weaken NATO cohesion, and normalize Russian regional dominance by suggesting resistance is both futile and illegitimate.
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Estonia Monthly: Yana Toom on the Estonian ban on issuing visas to Russian citizens
The Estonian social media and web-based media actors during the reporting month predominantly were still focused on the Estonian/Russian language policy issues, human rights issues, democracy and trust towards elected officials, war in Ukraine, terrorist crisis in Israel as well as the international security situation in general. Accordingly, the main narratives that were spread over the social media were the following:
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Latvia Monthly: “National Security Concept 2023” and the the opposition party “Stabilitātei!”
Following the introduction of the “National Security Concept 2023” in late September, the leader of the opposition party “Stabilitātei!” Aleksandrs Rosļikovs commented on the matter in a Tiktok video stating that the new concept aims to prohibit people from speaking in Russian and that “ignoring 40% of the population” is going to backfire.
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Estonia Monthly: Language policy: if Russian would “disappear” in Estonia in the “Latvian way”.
The Estonian social media and web-based media actors during the reporting month predominantly were focused on the Estonian/Russian language policy issues, human rights issues, democracy and trust towards elected officials, war in Ukraine as well as the international security situation in general. Accordingly, the main narratives that were spread over the social media were the following:
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