Russia Pulls Notice of Baltic Sea Border Plan That Raised Alarm
- Defense Ministry paper removed from regulatory website
- Lithuania called Russian proposal an ‘escalation against NATO’
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A Russian Defense Ministry proposal to change the country’s Baltic Sea border and territorial waters next to NATO rivals that prompted sharp responses from Lithuania and Finland was removed from a government website without explanation.
The document, which had been published for public discussion, said the ministry wanted to adjust coordinates for points at which it calculates Russia’s territorial waters and referenced a 1985 document passed by the Soviet Union to justify the proposal. The regulatory website said Wednesday the project had been deleted.