{"id":319508,"date":"2017-07-30T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T09:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pence-visits-estonia-to-reassure-nato-members-over-russia\/"},"modified":"2017-07-30T10:22:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T09:22:14","slug":"pence-visits-estonia-to-reassure-nato-members-over-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pence-visits-estonia-to-reassure-nato-members-over-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence visits Estonia to reassure NATO members over Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Vice President Mike Pence arrives in Estonia to reassure Baltic NATO members that are worried about\u00a0Russia&#8217;s military activity in the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pence, who will hold talks with Estonian officials on Sunday and Monday, will also visit Georgia and Montenegro later on during his trip.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, he will talk with Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas about the possibility of installing a US anti-aircraft system there.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow and Tallinn have not had a very amicable relationship since 1991 when Estonia broke free from the Soviet Union and then joined both the European Union and NATO in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Estonia and fellow Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania have been reportedly\u00a0frightened by Russia&#8217;s frequent military drills near the region as well as the rejoining of Crimea to Russia after it broke free from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Pence will also meet Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid and Lithuanian and Latvian leaders, Dalia Grybauskaite and Rajmonds&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/30\/530138\/US-Russia-Mike-Pence-Estonia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice President Mike Pence arrives in Estonia to reassure Baltic NATO members that are worried about\u00a0Russia&#8217;s military activity in the region. Pence, who will hold talks with Estonian officials on Sunday and Monday, will also visit Georgia and Montenegro later on during his trip. On Sunday, he will talk with Estonian Prime Minister Juri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}