title: The bust, the boom and the sanctions in trade relations with Russia
abstract: Next to the growing tensions in global economic arena, the challenges for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are often related to Russia's actions and ambitions. Mutual economic relations have been particularly tense at the beginning of the 1990s, in 1995-1997 and then in 2007-2009, when Russia has imposed sanctions against the Baltic countries and has been putting economic, political or propagandist pressure on them. The current "sanctioning war" is seriously testing the mutual economic relations ag
journal: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES