Pressure mounts on EU member states to list Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorist organisation

(Source – X) By Staff Writer Pressure is mounting on European Union member states to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation. Several capitals, including Germany, are publicly pushing for a decision that would place the …

Andrei Klimenko: Putin And Lukashenko Can Attack The Baltic States

4 Andriy Klimenko 19.01.2026, 20:59 6,110 Andriy Klymenko Photo: qha.com.ua The Baltic states should put their armed forces on alert. We at our Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies believe that the best time has come for Poo and Luka to attack the …

Zero margins: Model shows Europe’s long odds in a Baltic war

As Washington increasingly adopts a more transactional approach to defence in Europe, the threat to those states on the border with Russia increases. Simulations suggest that while Europe remains more powerful, it may simply be unable to overcome internal …

Gazprom: On January 15, gas reserves in the only underground storage facility in the Baltic States dropped below 40%

Russia Targets NATO Frontline States – Analysis

By Anna J. Davis On December 31, 2025, Finnish and Estonian authorities seized the Fitburg cargo ship in the Baltic Sea for attempting to damage an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia. The Fitburg, which had departed from St. …

Germany turns away suspected Russian shadow fleet tanker from Baltic Sea

Germany turned away a Russian-linked oil tanker from entering its territorial waters in the Baltic Sea this week, marking the first known instance of a European country blocking a vessel in Moscow's shadow fleet, Bloomberg reported Jan. 16. The Aframax …

Germany Denies Baltic Sea Entry to Shadow Fleet Tanker ‘Tavian’ in Unprecedented Move

In a first for Germany and a potential turning point in the battle over so-called “shadow fleet” tankers, German authorities refused the Russian-linked oil tanker Tavian entry into their territorial waters in the Baltic Sea on January 10.  The vessel, …

Turkish, Baltic top diplomats meet in summit to discuss Europe’s security

VILNIUS Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met his counterparts from the Baltic countries in Lithuania on Jan. 16 to discuss the security implications of the ongoing Russian occupation of Ukraine and securing Baltic airspace under NATO missions. In Vilnius, …

Baltic Cable-Cutting Is Back

While the world was watching U.S. forces’ spectacular kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, dramatic happenings were unfolding in the Baltic Sea and its Gulf of Finland arm, too. But with Venezuela holding the world’s attention, few people …

EU Council approves measures to establish AI Gigafactories across member states

Brussels (Brussels Morning Newspaper) January 16, 2026 – The Council of the European Union has endorsed measures to facilitate the establishment of AI gigafactories across member states. This decision supports large-scale infrastructure for artificial …