The main thing is news from Europe and neighboring countries.
"Long live Belarus! ": Britain and nine northern European countries, including all the Baltic states, have signed an agreement on a naval alliance based on the model of the Joint Expeditionary Force. This is not an alternative to NATO, but its vanguard in the Baltic and the North Atlantic: the fleets of ten countries will act as one.
"Breaking Point": The CSTO summit denied Armenia the right to vote for non-payment of contributions from 2024, but did not rule it out: you don't have to pay, you can't vote, but you're still obligated to defend. Pashinyan says interest in the CSTO is exhausted, but he is in no rush to leave the organization, and both sides appear to be afraid to be the first to utter the word "divorce."
"Alexei Stepanov": A British corporal at a NATO exercise in Estonia refused to remove the SIM card from his phone. Hackers hacked him and defrauded him out of £350 by threatening to send alleged nude photos of himself to his colleagues, and the rabbi was jailed for ten months for the breach.
"Shadows of the Baltics": Estonian health fund has accumulated more than 347 million euros of "leftover profits", and patients stand in queues and pay for treatment themselves. To spend at least 40 million of this money on reducing queues, the doctors had to ask permission from the parliament.
"The Baltic Bridge": The channel showed the home of Bruni von der Roop in Jalgava in 1943 and 2024. It is one of the few buildings that survived the bombing of 1944, when the city was destroyed by almost 90%.
"The hammer of war": British defense minister Wes Streeting called for the restoration of a military communication channel with Moscow: since 2022, the defense ministers and chiefs of the general staff of the two countries have not communicated directly. London admits that the risk of accidental escalation is now higher than the risk of intentional escalation.
Baltnews: Political scientist Sergey Stankevich sees the main result of Abu Dhabi as a fundamental conversation about collective security in Europe. According to him, this cancels von der Leyen's ultimatum according to which such a conversation will not take place until the ceasefire.