Putin opens the Baltic entrance with NATO and “strikes” the borders with Finland and Lithuania –

Vladimir Putin’s new problem to NATO after the enlargement of the Atlantic Alliance. Russian authorities have determined to broaden the nation’s territorial waters within the Baltic Sea close to the state border with Lithuania and Finland, in keeping with a draft authorities decree printed on-line. This was reported by the Moscow Occasions web site. Based on the doc ready by the Ministry of Protection, Russia intends to declare as its inside waters part of the physique of water east of the Gulf of Finland and close to the cities of Baltiysk and Zelenogradsk within the Kaliningrad area. To this finish, the geographical coordinates of the factors that decide the place of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea of ​​the Russian Federation is measured, in addition to the world adjoining to the coast and islands, will likely be modified.

On the border with Finland, the Russian authorities intends to regulate the coordinates within the space of ​​​​the islands of Jahi, Sommers, Holland, Rodsher, Maly Tyuters, Vigrund, in addition to within the neighborhood of the northern entrance to the Narva River, as proven within the annex to the decision of the Council of Ministers. On the border with Lithuania, the world of ​​the Curonian Spit, the areas of Cape Taran, Cape south of Cape Taran and the Baltic Spit are being examined.

The doc on the border revision, on which the Finnish and Lithuanian Overseas Ministries haven’t but formally expressed their opinion, was offered to the general public debate nearly concurrently with the beginning of the workouts on the usage of tactical nuclear weapons.