Wallström-Lavrov meeting: The beginning of a thaw in Russia-Sweden relations?

... to even recent Swedish attitudes to Russia. In December of last year, under pressure from Stockholm and the Swedish security expert community, Gotland municipality declined to lease one of the piers in Slite harbour to Gazprom for the construction of Nordstream-2. The contention from some experts was that Russian dockworkers could in the event of a West-Russia crisis over the Baltics result in those same dockworkers becoming “little green men” – a reference to the unmarked Russian soldiers deployed in Crimea following the coup in Kiev in early 2014 – and seizing control of the island for Russian anti-access/area ...