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...LITHUANIA...
Vike-Freiberga added that Latvia should join with Estonia and Lithuania, its fellow Baltic nations, to find a common energy policy in order to reduce Latvia’s severe dependency on Russia for oil and natural gas, and that potential solutions may involve nuclear power and other alternatives to fossil fuels...
...from a familial familiarity with the language, but rather from her love of Jewish culture in general. Though Togut insists that she doesn’t like language classes in the slightest, she thoroughly enjoyed her time spent studying Yiddish. This interest peaked in a summer spent abroad in Lithuania, in which Togut’s interest in Yiddish music began to blossom. “When I was in Lithuania, every Friday we had Shabbas Kiddush where we all go to the Jewish center,” she says. “A good friend of mine...
...Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia joined NATO as a guarantee against encroachment by Moscow, which had dominated them from 1945 until the end of the Cold War. Back at the close of the Cold War in the early 1990s, NATO had promised Moscow that once Soviet troops withdrew from Eastern Europe, NATO would not expand beyond West Germany. Russians decry the West's broken word, and question the purpose of NATO's encircling them from the west and south. Ukraine's prospective NATO membership is particularly painful to Russia in terms of security and emotions: Ukraine...
...LITHUANIA...