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a weird bird, not being quite Slavic nor German nor Finnish, but, as they were heavily influenced by Prussia back while Prussia existed both as a sovereign country and then as the main state within the German Empire, and as the Baltic States were right only Germany's doorstep when Germany was at its true extent as reflected in the OP map of Europe circa 1900, then I incline to think Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia need to belong to Germany, which, anyway, would encompass nearby Scandinavia because Scandinavia is Germanic, adding yet more reason for the Baltic States to become official provinces or states or administrative territorial subunits of Germany. However, in light of Baltland's deep historic ties also with Russia, from the days of the Russian Empire to the USSR to the modern Russian Federation, an absorption of Baltland into Russia would be fine as well, just somewhat less justified than Baltland's becoming German, but still within the range of sensible ways to unify the bizarre little countries of Europe with their proper homelands.
Turkey is both European and non-European, straddling the Bosporus right at its ancient capital of Constantinople, misnamed Istanbul in an illegitimate expression of Turkish nationalist that would correctly embrace Byzantine Roman heritage rather than reject it, even though most of Turkey's territory lies in Asia rather than in Europe. So perhaps, to reflect Turkey's transitional position and status in European geography, Turkey could be granted some semi-European national status, like officially recognized by the countries of Europe (now much fewer and much more rationally distributed in a much more sensible Europe) as like "The Gateway to Europe via Southwest Asia" or something like that. In any case, Turkey should certainly be its own country, whether in Europe or out of Europe or as a transitional place where Europe meets non-Europe.
And as is obvious, Belarus is just Russia.

Russia became what is, by far, the largest regular country (or non-empire) ever to exist. (You could call Russia an empire, but it's in the same sense that the USA's 50 states constitute an empire: a country grown huge from expansionism on a continent.)

So the Eastern Euro Russophobes who say that only Moscow is Russia, and Kiev is the true Russia, are ignoring the fact that under ancient Kievan rule, Russia was a small player, while under Muscovite rule, Russia became the hugest country ever and a major world player.
And as a note, yes, there are multiple Russias, some people used to refer to them as "All the Russias," as in "Tsar of All the Russias" being one of the Tsar's titles