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Imperial maps of the Baltic provinces continue to shape how Russia views them today.
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Imperial maps of the Baltic provinces continue to shape how Russia views them today.
Why Washington hesitated to support Lithuania's independence 31 years ago – opinion Bradley Woodworth, Matthew Schmidt2021.03.11 08:00 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H W Bush in July 1991 / AP Thirty-one years ago, on March 11, 1990, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania declared independence. As inevitable as it seems today, the United States was very far from supporting this outcome. Moscow said the action was meaningless, and the administration of George H W Bush worried it could trigger the collapse of what it saw as a new international order made p...