In the first few days of October 2022, a group of Russians and Belarusians gathered in the Kaliningrad resort town of Svetlogorsk. The politicians, academics and activists discussed how the two countries, 'truly striving for stability across the planet,' might resist the suite of international sanctions hitting both Russia and Belarus after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
, whose Wagner Group mercenaries play a vanguard role in Russia's battles against Ukraine.
The authors acknowledge a grim reality: the unfortunate state of the Baltic Sea, caused by a large layer of hydrogen sulfide that makes life at lower levels of the water impossible due to a lack of oxygen. They also refer to excess levels of nitrogen and phosphorus entering the shallow areas through the rivers and oil pollution originating from the abundant cargo ships operating in the area.
This piecemeal approach is characteristic of Russian influence operations, particularly those designed to draw in noteworthy figures who would otherwise be averse to participating in anything with Moscow’s direct fingerprints on it. The document written by Voitolovsky and Suchkov is accompanied by a timetable for setting up the Baltic Platform. From January to March of this year, it would set up “the organizing committee,” finding suitable opinion leaders and drafting key documents.
In March, the Baltic Platform was set to debut to the wider public, with representatives attending a series of “scientific hands-on events” at St. Petersburg State University, MGIMO and IMEMO, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. True to the fact, there was such an event in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, which lies on the shore of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea. The forum was constructed around “Baltic Sea Day,” held in St.
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