MOSCOW. June 10 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia would view the deployment of military bases in the Baltic States as a threat, said Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov.
"I have said this more than once: if a major military base appears in one of the Baltic states, we will interpret it as a threat to Russia. Its presence in this region cannot be explained by anything else," Ivanov said in an interview to be published in Profile magazine in the near future.