Russia has come to occupy an outsize role in U.S. foreign policy and the forthcoming U.S. presidential election, and who knows more about the Bear than the Baltic States—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania? They were devoured by the Soviet Union on the eve of World War II, liberated with the collapse of Communism, and have been threatened constantly, in ways big and small, as Russian President Vladimir Putin sets about trying to build anew a Russian Empire.
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Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. (AFP)
