{"id":46042,"date":"2014-09-25T03:47:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T03:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_russian_air_incursions_rattle_baltic_states\/"},"modified":"2014-09-25T03:47:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T03:47:54","slug":"ft_russian_air_incursions_rattle_baltic_states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46042","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Russian air incursions rattle Baltic states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltic countries are registering a dramatic increase in Russian military provocations, rattling nerves in a region which fears it could be the next frontier after Ukraine in Moscow\u2019s quest at asserting its regional power.<\/p>\n<p>Nato fighters policing Baltic airspace were scrambled 68 times along Lithuania\u2019s borders this year, by far the highest count in more than 10 years. Latvia registered 150 \u201cclose incidents\u201d\u009d, cases where Russian aircraft were found approaching and observed for risky behaviour. Estonia said its sovereign airspace had been violated by Russian aircraft five times this year, nearing the total count of seven over the previous eight years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/9d016276-43c3-11e4-baa7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3EHAIw7CT\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltic countries are registering a dramatic increase in Russian military provocations, rattling nerves in a region which fears it could be the next frontier after Ukraine in Moscow\u2019s quest at asserting its regional power. Nato fighters policing Baltic airspace<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46042\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,447,143,168,200,457,144,151,479,452,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-eastern-europe","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-finland","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-russia","category-sweden","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}