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A Polish border guard patrols the Polish-Russian border at the first completed section of the East Shield, a national defence initiative launched to strengthen Poland’s eastern borders with Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Zuma/Alamy

Why a new ‘iron curtain’ is being built across Europe. This time it’s to keep Russia out

Some European states are worrird after a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire Moscow might turn its firepower on them, so are building hundreds of miles of defensive wall.
The floating LNG storage and regasification unit “Independence”, used as an LNG import terminal in Lithuania, pictured in the port of Klaipeda on 23 August 2023. Karolis Kavolelis/Shutterstock

Could Lithuania hold the key to Europe’s energy security?

Long dependent on Russia for its energy, Lithuania has now entirely broken away from Moscow. To what extent can other EU countries learn from the small Baltic country?
Soviet-era monument in Riga, Latvia, which was splashed with the colours of the Ukraine flag the day after Russia invaded in February 2022. Kārlis Dambrāns/ Flickr.

Ukraine war prompts Baltic states to remove Soviet memorials

In much of eastern Europe historical memory of communist rule has been brought into sharp focus by the war in Ukraine.

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