– “Hybrid Pressure”: Russian Proposal To Change Baltic Sea Border Briefly Appears Online:
https://archive.is/trKRv
Russia just gave its Baltic neighbors a big scare this week, after a new draft decree appeared on a government website published by the defense ministry which proposed redrawing 100+ year old borders around Russian islands in the Gulf of Finland as well as around the exclave of Kaliningrad.
The draft appeared briefly on Russia’s TASS news agency only to disappear by Wednesday, where a page at the link said “draft deleted”. Russian media has since denied that there are any such plans to move sea borders deeper into Baltic waters.
The now deleted draft suggested a maritime border change would “correspond to the modern geographical situation”; however, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov downplayed it saying “there is nothing political here”.
But Peskov also added the caveat that the political situation in the region had changed since the 1980s: “You can see the level of confrontation, especially in the Baltic region,” he stated in response to questions.
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