About

Baltic Monitor is an independent open-source monitor of military preparation in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, north-eastern Poland, the Suwałki corridor, the Kaliningrad region, Belarus and the Russian regions bordering the Baltic states. A new issue is published every morning at about 09:00 Tallinn time, in five languages.

Who publishes it

The project is published by Opentech OÜ, a company registered in Estonia. It is not affiliated with any government, armed force or political party, carries no advertising and does not accept payment for placement of materials.

How an issue is made

Each issue is compiled with the help of AI (Claude by Anthropic) under a fixed, published procedure:

• news from the previous one to two days is collected from media and official sources in the Baltic states, Poland, Germany, Russia and other countries, searched in several languages;
• duplicates are merged, and every item carries its publication date and source;
• any sharp or high-profile claim needs two independent sources; claims that come only from propaganda outlets are flagged as such;
• new reports are checked against earlier issues, and contradictions are shown in a separate section instead of being smoothed over;
• the escalation index is scored on a 0–10 scale, treating escalation as a two-way process (see the methodology);
• every language version of an issue carries the same content.

Sources we do not link to

Outlets under EU sanctions or blocked by Baltic regulators are cited by name only, without a hyperlink, and labelled. The register of such outlets is updated together with the issues.

Corrections

Substantive errors — a wrong figure, fact or attribution — are logged publicly on the corrections page with a link to the affected issue; the original issue is not silently rewritten.

Contact

info@baltic-monitor.com — factual corrections and suggestions are welcome. New issues are also announced on Telegram and X.