Baltics to cut electric links to Russia, disagree on power trading until then

A dispute over future cross-border electricity purchases, which could soon include power from the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, has divided the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as they move to break one of the last and very important Soviet-era ties to Russia — their links to the Russian electricity system.

Lithuania, worried about the safety of the soon-to-be completed Astravyets plant — just 50 kilometers from the nation’s capital Vilnius, has passed a law that…