In 2007 the Control Committee of the Nordic Council decided to do an assessment of the Nordic Council of Ministers Offices in the Baltic countries and Northwestern Russia. The purpose of this report is to give an overview of the current situation in, and the functioning of, the Offices of the Nordic Council of Ministers in the Baltic countries and in Northwestern Russia, namely St Petersburg and Kaliningrad. The assessment has been performed by Vadim Kononenko at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.