NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen Friday said that Russia was not a threat to the alliance, as he sought to reassure the ex-Soviet Baltic states which are jittery about their resurgent former master. In an interview with the Lithuanian daily Lietuvos Rytas, Rasmussen said he had received from Moscow "clear signals of its interest in a new start in our ...

Tens of thousands of people in the Baltic states Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the day two million linked hands in a landmark protest against Soviet rule that helped speed them to freedom. Capping a weekend of events, Latvian President Valdis Zatlers ran the last stretch of a 31-hour, 678-kilometre (421-mile) relay along the original route of the human ...

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania launched a 24-hour, 600-kilometre (375-miles) relay race on Saturday, 20 years after two million people joined hands against Soviet rule in the Baltic Way human chain. Runners from the Estonian capital Tallinn headed south to the Latvian capital Riga were the first off the mark Saturday. A second leg was to begin in the Lithuanian capital ...

Seventy years ago Sunday, the Soviet Union signed a pact with Nazi Germany that gave dictator Josef Stalin a free hand to take over part of Poland and the Baltic states on the eve of World War II. Most of the world now condemns the Molotov-Ribbentrop ...