In April 2023, a consortium of European media outlets, together with the “Dossier Center,” reported on a 2021 strategic paper by the Kremlin that outlined the “Strategic Goals of the Russian Federation in the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Directions”. (Disclosure: The Dossier Center is an NGO funded by leading Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky.) The strategic paper was drafted by the Russian Presidential Administration’s Directorate for Cross-Border Cooperation, a body staffed by Russian intelligence officers from the FSB (State Security), SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service) and GRU (Military Intelligence Service), and presented Moscow’s long-term strategy to exert influence over the politics of the three Baltic states. The strategy included the cultivation of local businessmen to advocate for pro-Russian policies, attempts to weaponize legacy energy arrangements dating back from the USSR, as well as information manipulation campaigns to strengthen anti-NATO and anti-EU sentiment.