Following a review of current scholarship on identity and integration patterns of Russian speakers in the Baltic states, this article proposes an analytical framework to help understand current trends. Rogers Brubaker's widely-employed triadic nexus is expanded to demonstrate why a form of Russian-speaking identity has been emerging, but has failed to become fully consolidated, and why significant integration has occurred structurally but not identificationally. By enumerating the subfields of political, economic, and cultural 'stances' and 'representations' the model helps to understand the complicated integration processes of minority groups that possess complex relationships with 'external homelands', 'nationalizing states' and 'international organizations'. Ultimately, it is argued that socio-economic factors largely reduce the capacity for a consolidated identity; political factors have a moderate tendency to reduce this capacity; while cultural factors generally increase the potential for a consolidated group identity. This article proceeds by reviewing the scholarly literature from 1992-2014 relating to Russians/Russian speakers in the Baltic states. The review is based on an analysis of various literatures that have focused directly on Russian speakers in the one of more of the Baltic states. The main questions addressed in this article are: to what extent has a 'Russianspeaking nationality' emerged in the Baltic states?; what are the main factors that impede or facilitate the materialization of such an identity?; and how can we understand contemporary integration trends among Russian speakers? The articles reviewed include studies of identity, integration, socio-economics, education policy, language practice, and ethnic relations generally.