Estonia-Japan

8-10.06 the conference was held in Japan on experiences of Russian neighbours on relations with Russia. Representatives of Russia were invited to the conference too, but they did not arrive. So main discussion was held between Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish, Norwegian and Japanies representatives. Lot of attention was given to the Russia’s new weapon – energy. Main message of the conference was get rid from illusions – Russia is moving away from democracy, is having clear goal to restore lost empire and only way to stop this kind of development is to develop cooperation not only between countries bordering with Russia, but inside European Union and between G-7. Russia’s place is not in this group, the democracies are not threatening eachother with nuclear missiles as Russia just did. To stop Russia’s attempts to restore its empire is best help for Russian people, because as always in the history they must at the end pay highest price for imperialistic aspirations of their leaders. There was very active interest in Japan toward the conference and there are good hope, that this will become tradition.