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A Russian plan to re-examine its maritime borders in the Baltic Sea caused uncertainty and concern among its European neighbours on Wednesday. Russias Ministry of Defence on Tuesday published an initiative to determine geographical coordinates in the Baltic Sea because previous Soviet-era boundaries were inaccurate. It highlighted maritime borders near Russian islands in the Gulf of Finland and others off the coast of the cities of Baltiysk and Zelenogradsk in Russias Kaliningrad exclave, which borders Poland and Lithuania. The Soviet era coordinates did not allow for a continuous border l