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World Service,4 mins

What's the possibility of Russia invading Latvia?

World Questions

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Following Russia's annexation of Crimea and its incursion into parts of eastern Ukraine, the panellists on World Questions consider whether a Russian invasion of Latvia might ever be on the cards. A member of the European Union, Latvia also has a border with Russia. You will hear, in order, Ojārs Ēriks Kalniņš, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in parliament; Baiba Rubesa, chair of the new Rail Baltica project; the mayor of Riga, Nils Ušakovs; and Magnus Christiansson, a Swedish security strategist specialising in NATO and the Baltic states. (Photo: The panellists in Riga, with presenter Jonathan Dimbleby in centre) (Credit: Toms Taukulis/National Library of Latvia)

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