>The Russian government on Monday summoned Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian envoys, accusing them of trying to sabotage next month’s Russian presidential elections.
>Moscow accuses Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania of ignoring Russia’s requests to ensure the security of polling stations in its embassies.
>“The chargés d’affaires of the Baltic states in Moscow were summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the absence of a proper response by the authorities of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to the repeated appeals of the Russian side to ensure security at polling stations at the Russian embassies in Vilnius, Riga, and Tallinn during the presidential elections in March this year,” the Russian foreign ministry statement said.
>Moscow demanded that the Baltic States “take all necessary measures” to ensure the security of Russian embassies and voters. “Creating difficulties in the conduct of elections would cause serious protest among Russian citizens living in these countries,” it warned.
>“In the event of continued sabotage, we will act decisively in a bilateral context and international structures,” the ministry said.
>President Vladimir Putin is expected to win the election easily amid a years-long crackdown on dissent and a lack of real opposition.
Oh no, Putin might win only 145% of the vote instead of 146%.
…okay
Ye it’s the Baltic states that gave the results Putin wanted and not Putin himself..
A puzzling statement. Do they expect angry Russians destroy the embassies or what?
The pot calling the kettle black
Pathetic Russia doesn’t need any help to sabotage their election. Bunch of tragic jokers.
Russia consistently accuses others of actions they themselves engage in. Therefore, it’s evident that Russia is actively sabotaging elections in the Baltics. When a russian speaks, they are essentially lying.
Maybe they started building a narrative for a future invasion
The mighty Baltic states are puppet masters of the Russian politics and even Putin himself.
lol
Russia have presidential election? :))
You mean the election nobody cares about because it’s rigged anyway?
It seems from the Ukraine sources that the Estonian government have allowed the Russian embassy to be the one and only voting station. This is outraging Russia as they have previously had ballots in most cities.
So now Russian citizens have to be inconvenienced like all other citizen who are living abroad and want to vote. ( Buhuhuhu and smallest violin playing.)
So I’m guessing the russian population (which wasn’t at all re-settled there for this exact purpose) is about to be oppressed, and in need of protection from the nazi baltics?
They are preparing casus belli for invading the Baltics, if Trump pulls the US out of NATO.
Yup they’re laying the groundwork now for an excuse in the future to invade the Baltics.
Damn,someone doesnt wanna drink tea.
What is there to sabotage exactly? I mean this tale would work if there were any rasonable elections in russia, but there isn’t even any opponent 😀
Twitter is full of “Texians”(sic) rooting for russia and praising Texas’ “warm water ports”(also sic) while spreading extremist shit and calling for Texas secession, and now Kremlin accuses Baltic states of election sabotage? Did they hire some rookies for this? 😀
Start digging the trenches and deploying the mines yesterday. They’ll come. And Latvia is the least prepared of the three.
You dare use my spells against me, Potter?
Hilarious
I’ve played EU4 long enough to know that this is a Casus Belli in the making.
r/nottheonion
big if true
we’re counting on ya, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
:DDD sorry I guess
It’s funny that Russia pretends to have elections. (I mean.. it would be funny if Russia wasn’t the worlds version of big fat guy in a subway swinging a rambo knife, all juiced up on speed)
My favorite part is that the election officials are like “Awwh man, bad luck, the paperwork this candidate submitted is not filled correctly.. tooo baaad!” (Like the cable company reps in south park)
Mean while the only paperwork the current sitting president submitted is “I’m the president.”
There are president elections in Russia?
Why?
Now that’s funny.
Oh dear, this makes it a certain, certain, certainly win then.
Russians bring Russians.
Every free elections is a sabotage for russians
Oh, is Putin looking for a reason to attack a NATO country. Time to reserve a bullet for this guys head.
So if you sabotage an election that’s already rigged, is that like a double negative?
Baltic countries host like 70% of Russian opposition, opposition media and other stuff.
here we go, starting fabrications and pretext for agression..
hahahaha they dont like it “up em” do they mr mainwairing
Biggest liars and hypocrites the world has ever know. they really are in a class of their own….
I think the title is a bit misleading. They rather accuse us that we don’t let Russian citizens vote here for Russian polls. It’s more of a pretext to let them participate in future “votings” of Annexing Ukraine territories so it would seem more legitimate, just like the article says.
I love how they say the Baltics are small and insignificant and cannot do anything etc. etc.
And then they turn around and say that the Baltics are so powerfull that they have the ability to “sabotage” the election that has already been decided before even starting in a nation run by a dictator that is many times bigger than the baltics.
I mean dont get me wrong I would love for us in the Baltics to have the ability to oust putler , but come on .
“Can’t ensure security” reminds me of Soviet nonsense claims that led to the boycott of the 1984 Olympics. In this case, Moscow could do their usual petty ass move of closing embassies to Russian citizens there so nobody gets to vote against Putin.
“But why hold elections anyway” – elections in autocracies have their own reasons, and for the anti-war opposition, winning isn’t the point. Also, Moscow really is that petty these days. They tried to get a rock band extradited from Thailand to prosecute them back home. Like wow, they’re obviously not a threat to the regime, but they wanted to send a message anyway
“But Russians in the Baltics are imperialists who support Putin anyway” – not all of them; especially the ones who came after 2022 (journalists and activists and the like)
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>The Russian government on Monday summoned Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian envoys, accusing them of trying to sabotage next month’s Russian presidential elections.
>Moscow accuses Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania of ignoring Russia’s requests to ensure the security of polling stations in its embassies.
>“The chargés d’affaires of the Baltic states in Moscow were summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the absence of a proper response by the authorities of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to the repeated appeals of the Russian side to ensure security at polling stations at the Russian embassies in Vilnius, Riga, and Tallinn during the presidential elections in March this year,” the Russian foreign ministry statement said.
>Moscow demanded that the Baltic States “take all necessary measures” to ensure the security of Russian embassies and voters. “Creating difficulties in the conduct of elections would cause serious protest among Russian citizens living in these countries,” it warned.
>“In the event of continued sabotage, we will act decisively in a bilateral context and international structures,” the ministry said.
>President Vladimir Putin is expected to win the election easily amid a years-long crackdown on dissent and a lack of real opposition.
>[LRT.LT](http://lrt.lt)
Oh no, Putin might win only 145% of the vote instead of 146%.
…okay
Ye it’s the Baltic states that gave the results Putin wanted and not Putin himself..
A puzzling statement. Do they expect angry Russians destroy the embassies or what?
The pot calling the kettle black
Pathetic Russia doesn’t need any help to sabotage their election. Bunch of tragic jokers.
Russia consistently accuses others of actions they themselves engage in. Therefore, it’s evident that Russia is actively sabotaging elections in the Baltics. When a russian speaks, they are essentially lying.
Maybe they started building a narrative for a future invasion
The mighty Baltic states are puppet masters of the Russian politics and even Putin himself.
lol
Russia have presidential election? :))
You mean the election nobody cares about because it’s rigged anyway?
It seems from the Ukraine sources that the Estonian government have allowed the Russian embassy to be the one and only voting station. This is outraging Russia as they have previously had ballots in most cities.
So now Russian citizens have to be inconvenienced like all other citizen who are living abroad and want to vote. ( Buhuhuhu and smallest violin playing.)
So I’m guessing the russian population (which wasn’t at all re-settled there for this exact purpose) is about to be oppressed, and in need of protection from the nazi baltics?
They are preparing casus belli for invading the Baltics, if Trump pulls the US out of NATO.
Yup they’re laying the groundwork now for an excuse in the future to invade the Baltics.
Damn,someone doesnt wanna drink tea.
What is there to sabotage exactly? I mean this tale would work if there were any rasonable elections in russia, but there isn’t even any opponent 😀
Twitter is full of “Texians”(sic) rooting for russia and praising Texas’ “warm water ports”(also sic) while spreading extremist shit and calling for Texas secession, and now Kremlin accuses Baltic states of election sabotage? Did they hire some rookies for this? 😀
Start digging the trenches and deploying the mines yesterday. They’ll come. And Latvia is the least prepared of the three.
You dare use my spells against me, Potter?
Hilarious
I’ve played EU4 long enough to know that this is a Casus Belli in the making.
r/nottheonion
big if true
we’re counting on ya, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
:DDD sorry I guess
It’s funny that Russia pretends to have elections. (I mean.. it would be funny if Russia wasn’t the worlds version of big fat guy in a subway swinging a rambo knife, all juiced up on speed)
My favorite part is that the election officials are like “Awwh man, bad luck, the paperwork this candidate submitted is not filled correctly.. tooo baaad!” (Like the cable company reps in south park)
Mean while the only paperwork the current sitting president submitted is “I’m the president.”
There are president elections in Russia?
Why?
Now that’s funny.
Oh dear, this makes it a certain, certain, certainly win then.
Russians bring Russians.
Every free elections is a sabotage for russians
Oh, is Putin looking for a reason to attack a NATO country. Time to reserve a bullet for this guys head.
So if you sabotage an election that’s already rigged, is that like a double negative?
Meanwhile they openly interfere in other nation’s elections
[https://tsn.ua/en/ato/medvedev-doesn-t-hide-russia-s-plans-to-interfere-in-elections-in-the-west-2507353.html](https://tsn.ua/en/ato/medvedev-doesn-t-hide-russia-s-plans-to-interfere-in-elections-in-the-west-2507353.html)
Pot kettle 😹
Kreml once again at it:
Try not to lie challenge (impossible difficulty)
Meanwhile in Baltic president elections….
“Election”? :))) What? Loser clown Putin jokes.
Baltic countries host like 70% of Russian opposition, opposition media and other stuff.
here we go, starting fabrications and pretext for agression..
hahahaha they dont like it “up em” do they mr mainwairing
Biggest liars and hypocrites the world has ever know. they really are in a class of their own….
I think the title is a bit misleading. They rather accuse us that we don’t let Russian citizens vote here for Russian polls. It’s more of a pretext to let them participate in future “votings” of Annexing Ukraine territories so it would seem more legitimate, just like the article says.
I love how they say the Baltics are small and insignificant and cannot do anything etc. etc.
And then they turn around and say that the Baltics are so powerfull that they have the ability to “sabotage” the election that has already been decided before even starting in a nation run by a dictator that is many times bigger than the baltics.
I mean dont get me wrong I would love for us in the Baltics to have the ability to oust putler , but come on .
“Can’t ensure security” reminds me of Soviet nonsense claims that led to the boycott of the 1984 Olympics. In this case, Moscow could do their usual petty ass move of closing embassies to Russian citizens there so nobody gets to vote against Putin.
“But why hold elections anyway” – elections in autocracies have their own reasons, and for the anti-war opposition, winning isn’t the point. Also, Moscow really is that petty these days. They tried to get a rock band extradited from Thailand to prosecute them back home. Like wow, they’re obviously not a threat to the regime, but they wanted to send a message anyway
“But Russians in the Baltics are imperialists who support Putin anyway” – not all of them; especially the ones who came after 2022 (journalists and activists and the like)