"'We are non-citizens. They called us occupiers, but now they turn out [to be] occupiers themselves. This is Russia's land'."

Ethnic Russians living in the Baltic States speak out.

There are ethnic Russians living in Lithuania, too.

Anonymous petition asks residents of Klaipėda "to approve the region's accession to the Russian Federation."

ADDED: Here's a map showing the distribution of ethnic Russians in the Baltic States.

The issue of ethnic Russians living in Crimea.

The ethnic Russian population in Crimea is a "justification for this entire operation: the ethnic Russians on the Crimean peninsula are allegedly in danger."

How did the population of ethnic Russians rise to a majority in the Crimea? "[T]he only reason that Crimea had a Russian majority was because Josef Stalin deported the native Crimean Tatars en masse to Central Asia after World War II and resettled Russians to replace them."