The three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, share a common history of suppressed nationhood, having been largely under either Tsarist or Soviet Russian control since the 18th century. There was one brief period of independent statehood for...

The Baltic states (Estonian: Balti riigid, Latvian: Baltijas valstis, Lithuanian: Baltijos valstybės) or Baltic countries are three member states of the European Union [1]: the sovereign states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, located in Northern...