"But you could have also given some areas that are inclined to be Russian, where the people speak Russian, you know, etcetera, etcetera. And you could have had a country [Ukraine]," he said.

Many people in the Baltic states speak Russian as their mother tongue – particularly in Latvia (38%) and Estonia (28%). In ...

Many people in the Baltic states speak Russian as their mother tongue – particularly in Latvia (38%) and Estonia (28%). In the Estonian capital, Tallinn, virtually every second child grows up ...