FORUM of BALTIC COMPATRIOTS 10 July 2023 Meeting ahead of the NATO summit in the city of Vilnus on 11 July, 2023 Stating that the modern world is going through a global historical process of transformation into a multipolar structure of international relations, which is inevitably associated with military conflicts, one of which is in Ukraine. Taking into account that its root cause was the unbridled far expansion of NATO to East up to very borders of the Russian Federation, in gross and perfidious violation of the International Agreements reached in the 90 s . It was particularly the NATO that provoked this military conflict in Ukraine. Noting the real background for the beginning of the Special Military Operation (SVO). The western mass media immediately formed a frenzied Russophobia, under the pressure of which were fell not only great Russian historical persons such as Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, but also even Russian folk musical instrument balalaika fell unde