Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Friday brought back painful memories in the Baltic countries, which say the same playbook was used to join them to the Soviet Union in 1940. President Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in a speech at the Kremlin after holding what it called referendums in occupied areas of Ukraine. Western governments and Kyiv said the votes breached international law and were coercive and non-representative. “These events in Ukraine closely follow the scenario which was tried in the Baltics in 1940," Lithuania’s Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas, also...