This year, Kremlin officials and propagandists suddenly became concerned about the environment Baltic Sea and started talking about the coming climate catastrophe. No, the regime that declared WWF to be foreign agents has not turned into environmental activists. Just the Kremlin is unable to find any other points of contact with the countries of the Baltic region after the invasion of Ukraine – and precisely Moscow decided to use the environmental agenda as a tool of “soft power” in Northern Europe.
An international consortium of journalists obtained a document developed by scientists from MGIMO and IMEMO especially for the Russian Presidential Administration (the project is supervised by the deputy head of the Administration Dmitry Kozak). It talks about the creation of the “Baltic Platform” – within its framework, Europeans will be intimidate with environmental threats in the Baltic region and force dialogue. The topic of ecology was chosen because, according to the EU strategy, it it is impossible to avoid “selective interaction” with the Kremlin.
The document directly states that Russia must “manipulate the environmental agenda,” “hyperbolize” problems and come up with catastrophic scenarios. Thus, according to the logic of the document’s authors, the Baltic countries will understand that Russia wants “good neighborly relations” For this reason, it is even proposed to abandon the term “Baltic,” which in the Baltic countries is considered “Moscow-centric.”
The plan has already begun to be implemented: about the “Baltic Platform” Russian officials saidincluding the governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov. About the ecology of the Baltic Sea suddenly They even remembered propagandist Vladimir Solovyov on air. And this fall, the creators of the project planned to hold several discussion sessions. First we should discuss biodiversity and pollution Baltic Sea, but by the sixth it was proposed to shift the emphasis to cooperation with Russia and issuing visas to Europeanswhich, according to the authors, want to spend the winter in Russia due to high heating prices.
Experts consider the plan “cunning”, but now the Kremlin will have to come up with something new 🤔
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The Kremlin is planning to return to the negotiating table with the Baltics through environmental blackmail
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