High-speed rail uncoupling Baltic states from Russia and Soviet past

[John Ashworth]

The high-speed railway that’s uncoupling the Baltic states from Russia and their Soviet past

The largest infrastructure project in the Baltic region for a hundred years is under way. The 870 km Rail Baltica project will connect the capitals of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia with Warsaw and the rest of Europe, allowing trains from the continent to run uninterrupted. However, the project is symbolic as well as physical. For the EU, it’s a statement about the Baltic states’ return to Europe and their decoupling from their Soviet past...