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Reports of suspected violations or circumventions of EU sanctions against Russia rose tenfold in Estonia and 23-fold in Latvia from 2021 to last year, cementing their status as the front line of the West's economic and financial embargo against neighboring Russia. Together with Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia regained independence in 1991 after half a century of occupation by the Soviet Union and now rank among the most determined nations in Europe to apply strong sanctions against the Russian Federation and the oligarchs close to the Kremlin. "Because of the geopolitical context and the memory of their occupation, sanctions were clearly...