Cutting the Cord: Latvia, the Baltics and the Long Divorce from Russia

A timeline tracing how Latvia and its Baltic neighbours moved from Soviet republics to EU and NATO members and then, after Russia's 2014 and 2022 invasions of Ukraine, into a deliberate severance of economic and energy ties. The arc runs from the 1991 independence restoration, through the 2004 NATO/EU accessions and the long fight over Russian-language schooling and citizenship for Russian-speakers, to the 2022 security pivot, the February 2025 desynchronisation of the Baltic power grids from the Russian-controlled BRELL system, rising airspace and drone incursions, and finally the October 2026 parliamentary election, where the cost of that rupture is the central campaign argument. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.