In Vilnius, Lithuania, his father's family were scholars and rabbis with huge private libraries. |
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And the only neighbours of the Russian exclave, Poland and Lithuania, were not invited to the festivities. |
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In 1918, Lithuania formally declared independence, which was granted by both Germany and the Soviet Union. |
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This brought more Poles into the Soviet orbit including civilian refugees, military internees, and pre-war Polish residents of Lithuania. |
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The 2,833 lakes in Lithuania occupy about 1.5 percent of the surface area of the nation. |
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After his return to Lithuania he suffered a mental collapse, and he died in an asylum near Warsaw. |
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The cases of Lithuania, Uzbekistan, and Russia serve to illustrate why this is the case. |
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Born in 1947 in the region of Tver, north-west of Moscow, Romanov's family moved to the then Soviet republic of Lithuania at the age of nine. |
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He is the first member of his family to come to the United States from Lithuania, and speaks English, Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian. |
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In a photo finish Russia held on to first with Italy nosing ahead of Lithuania in the last 30 metres to take the second qualifying spot. |
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Whether they will take a new production or a revival to Lithuania is still undecided, but this, says Hill, is the advantage of an ensemble. |
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More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania. |
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The Baltic Council was founded on 12 May 1990 by the newly refounded independent states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. |
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I have a hard time accepting that we rank below Lithuania, Estonia, Croatia and Slovakia. |
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The Union of Lublin in 1569 united Poland and Lithuania into a commonwealth. |
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He launched into a sensitive, empathetic account of Mekas's early life and his exile from Lithuania. |
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It is bounded on the west by Poland, on the north-west by Latvia and Lithuania, on the north and east by Russia, and on the south by Ukraine. |
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Under threat for the lead with 600 metres to go, Lithuania caught a crab and Argentina was able to push past and finish first. |
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He conducted a 24-year-long war against Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, and the Teutonic Knights, and lost. |
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They breed their grannies tough out there in Lithuania, make no mistake. |
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As the author of this monograph points out, the ruling elites in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have never set their sights on achieving competitive market economies. |
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In Poland, Lithuania, and Romania, the CIA operated secret prisons, according to the investigation. |
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Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine have revived a plan to form a joint battle group. |
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The three union republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, as well as the Moldavian union republic, dated from the 1940s and still had memories of old, pre-Soviet times. |
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The Pahonia, emblem of the Belarusian nation drawn from the insignia of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, is banned under Lukashenko. |
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To Eastern Europe to reassure leaders of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia that U.S. is committed to their defense. |
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At the end of the 1990s, Russian trans-shipments represented 7-9 per cent of the gross domestic product in Estonia, 8-10 per cent in Latvia and 4-6 per cent in Lithuania. |
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If having an 80 percent titular majority has helped Lithuania consolidate a democracy, it did not help Russia, and it had a ruinous effect on Uzbekistan. |
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Similarly, the Economic Minister of Lithuania has been negotiating with a Russian oil company to exchange Lithuanian oil profits for Russian crude oil. |
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On 23 April 2013, Victoria Seaways caught fire whilst on passage between Kiel, Germany and Klaipeda in Lithuania. |
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Henry's second expedition to Lithuania in 1392 illustrates the financial benefits to the Order of these guest crusaders. |
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A notable early example were the Statutes of Lithuania, in the 16th century. |
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Ireland has a similar MP to Citizen ratio to Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden. |
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The ferry ports of Karlskrona and Karlshamn in southeastern Sweden serve Gdynia, Poland, and Klaipeda, Lithuania. |
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Finland, Azerbaijan, and Lithuania joined them in 1918 before the war ended and after the Russian Empire collapsed. |
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In the east, its range overlaps with populations in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and Slovakia. |
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As World War II neared its end and the Germans retreated, the Soviet Union reoccupied Lithuania. |
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Jogaila embarked on gradual Christianization of Lithuania and established a personal union between Poland and Lithuania. |
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As a member of the Commonwealth, Lithuania retained its institutions, including a separate army, currency, and statutory laws. |
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From 1573, the Kings of Poland and Grand Dukes of Lithuania were elected by the nobility, who were granted ever increasing Golden Liberties. |
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A Lithuanian National Revival laid the foundations of the modern Lithuanian nation and independent Lithuania. |
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The occupation was followed by mass arrests and deportations with Lithuania having 34,000 citizens removed. |
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According to a Lithuanian government official, this was the start of a planned removal of 700,000 from Lithuania. |
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It is estimated that during World War II and the subsequent Soviet annexation, Lithuania lost 780,000 people. |
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The last Russian troops left Lithuania on 31 August 1993, even earlier than they departed from East Germany. |
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Severe storms are rare in the eastern part of Lithuania but common in the coastal areas. |
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Lithuania experienced a drought in 2002, causing forest and peat bog fires. |
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Since Lithuania declared the restoration of its independence on 11 March 1990, it has maintained strong democratic traditions. |
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During the second half of 2013, Lithuania assumed the role of the presidency of the European Union. |
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Lithuania is also active in developing cooperation among northern European countries. |
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Lithuania also cooperates with Nordic and the two other Baltic countries through the NB8 format. |
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Most of the trade Lithuania conducts is within the European Union and Russia. |
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The high speeds are largely due to Lithuania having the EU's and Europe's most available FTTH network. |
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Lithuania has thus Europe's most available fibre network and also has the highest FTTH penetration. |
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Russians in Lithuania are the second largest minority, concentrated mostly in two cities. |
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The Church has been the majority denomination since the Christianisation of Lithuania at the end of the 14th century. |
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The first documented school in Lithuania was established in 1387 at Vilnius Cathedral. |
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The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania proposes national educational policies and goals. |
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As of 2008 Vilnius University is one of the oldest universities in Northern Europe and the largest university in Lithuania. |
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Kaunas University of Technology is the largest technical university in the Baltic States and the 2nd largest university in Lithuania. |
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The Lithuanian Art Museum was founded in 1933 and is the largest museum of art conservation and display in Lithuania. |
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Torte Napoleon was introduced during Napoleon's passage through Lithuania in the 19th century. |
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Lithuania has won a total of 25 medals at the Olympic Games, including 6 gold medals in athletics, modern pentathlon, shooting, and swimming. |
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Louis the Great led successful campaigns from Lithuania to Southern Italy, and from Poland to Northern Greece. |
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Meanwhile, Poland's attention was turned eastwards, as the union with Lithuania created an enormous entity in the region. |
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The union, and the conversion of Lithuania, also marked the end of paganism in Europe. |
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The fastest declining populations are in regions of Latvia and Lithuania, as well as Greeceas Ioannina region. |
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The present contracting parties are Denmark, Estonia, the European Community, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden. |
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There has also been significant immigration from Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Latvia. |
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The fastest growing immigrant groups in 2011 in absolute numbers were from Poland, Lithuania and Sweden. |
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For more than six hundred years, Karaim has been spoken as a community language in what is today Lithuania. |
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Poland's territory was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union, with Lithuania and Slovakia also receiving small shares. |
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Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia became independent countries. |
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Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were incorporated into the USSR, together with portions of Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania. |
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The White Eastern European members are mainly from Poland, with smaller numbers from Lithuania, Latvia, and Slovakia. |
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In Poland and Lithuania they are known as Bernardines, after Bernardino of Siena, although the term elsewhere refers to Cistercians instead. |
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In April 2010 Lithuania which is a second tier rugby nation, broke the record of consecutive international wins for second tier rugby nations. |
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In UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying, Scotland were grouped with Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Czech Republic and world champions Spain. |
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The French and Polish governments favoured turning Memel into an international city, while Lithuania wanted to annex the area. |
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After the Allies failed to reach an agreement with Lithuania, they referred the matter to the League of Nations. |
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The commission chose to cede Memel to Lithuania and give the area autonomous rights. |
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After the First World War, Poland and Lithuania both regained their independence but soon became immersed in territorial disputes. |
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After a request for assistance from Lithuania, the League Council called for Poland's withdrawal from the area. |
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However, the plan was met with resistance in Poland, Lithuania, and the Soviet Union, which opposed any international force in Lithuania. |
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It was not until the 1938 Polish ultimatum that Lithuania restored diplomatic relations with Poland and thus de facto accepted the borders. |
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The EU states not in the OECD are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Malta, and Romania. |
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Russia became the Soviet Union and lost Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, which became independent countries. |
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Also, in the east Poland created the LITPOLUKRBRIG battle groups with Lithuania and Ukraine. |
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The coldest region of Poland is in the northeast in the Podlaskie Voivodeship near the border of Belarus and Lithuania. |
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A surge in household debt to historic highs also occurred in emerging economies such as Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, and Lithuania. |
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Police and protesters clashed in Lithuania where people protesting the economic conditions were shot with rubber bullets. |
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Elsewhere, Poles constitute large minorities in Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. |
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Sometimes it is taken to include Greenland and historically the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. |
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Scottish merchants from Aberdeen and Dundee had close trading links to Baltic ports in Poland and Lithuania. |
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In 2015 Italian Air Force Typhoons were deployed for about eight months in Siaulai base in northern Lithuania during the Baltic Frontier mission. |
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The nonaggression pact made possible Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bessarabia, northern Bukovina, and eastern Poland. |
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The first Russian printers, Ivan Fedorov and Pyotr Mstislavets, were forced to flee from Moscow to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. |
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Retroactive administrative sanctions are prohibited by Article 8 of the Administrative Code of the Republic of Lithuania. |
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In Eastern Europe they can be found in Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Romania and Ukraine. |
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Salt has accumulated in the Zechstein lagoon in the Kaliningrad district, while only one small salt pillow is found in Southwestern Lithuania. |
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The article mostly focuses on the use of paper counts and the JIF to evaluate scientific research in Lithuania. |
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Gjorge Ivanov, President of the Republic of Macedonia, paid a working visit to the Republic of Lithuania on 30 April and 1 May. |
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Matrimonial capacity and other conditions of contract marriage are governed by the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania. |
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Former Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov claims he will be assassinated in a gangland hit if he goes home to Lithuania. |
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By using MN GEOSINT ZD 13, it is the first time the standards LST EN 13249 and LST EN 13361 are implemented in Lithuania. |
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Metho dology for the Substantiation of Road Safety Improvement Measures on the Roads of Lithuania, in Proc. |
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It was discovered in summer 1958 during canalizing the Rqze River in Palanga city, coastal Lithuania. |
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On 1 January 2015, Lithuania adopted the euro as its official currency andthe changeover is running smoothly and according to plan. |
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John was held in numerous PoW camps including the infamous Stalag Luft VI in Lithuania, where more than 9000 troops were incarcerated. |
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Buckwheat and cockshead honeys are characteristic of southern and south-western Lithuania. |
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The upcoming flights will be to Marseille, Constanza in Romania, the Estonian capital of Tallinn, Vilnius in Lithuania and Luxembourg. |
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When comparing all three rivers in central Lithuania, the Mituva river distinguishes with its highest woodenness and lowest swampiness. |
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Trace fossils from Late Pleistocene varved lacustrine sediments in eastern Lithuania. |
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Sweden was the first country to approve dexlansoprazole in the EU, followed by Lithuania, Belgium, Germany and Ireland. |
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Freeze-thaw resistance is one of the most important durability properties of concrete and reinforced concrete structures used in Lithuania. |
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The lowest price levels were observed in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Lithuania. |
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In addition to fish the sea also provides amber, especially from its southern shores within today's borders of Poland, Russia and Lithuania. |
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The victory did not end Tartar rule in the region, however, and its immediate beneficiary was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which extended its influence eastwards. |
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The following are links to international rankings of Lithuania from selected research institutes and foundations including economic output and various composite indices. |
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Basketball is the most popular and national sport of Lithuania. |
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It is also spoken as a second language in western parts of Belarus and Ukraine, west and central Lithuania, as well as the northern parts of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. |
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These are Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. |
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Apart from Lithuania and Latvia, European Nations Cup Division 2B also includes Hungary and Andorra, both beaten by the Moufflons in the first half of the season. |
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The Cyprus Moufflons face a formidable opponent when they meet Lithuania at the Paphiacos Stadium in Paphos on Saturday in the European Rugby Nations Cup. |
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Lithuania has established diplomatic relations with 149 countries. |
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The home team, fresh from recording their firstever win at this level in June when they beat Lithuania, are renowned for their timewasting tactics. |
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The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin. |
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Lithuania was among the last areas of Europe to be Christianized. |
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For centuries a small Tatar community has flourished in Lithuania. |
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Little will train 200 environmental consultants from June through October from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkmenia, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan. |
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Lithuania has a flat tax rate rather than a progressive scheme. |
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The Nordic Council of Ministers and Lithuania engage in political cooperation to attain mutual goals and to determine new trends and possibilities for joint cooperation. |
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The members of CBSS are Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Russia, and the European Commission. |
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Lithuania gained membership in the World Trade Organization on 31 May 2001, and currently seeks membership in the OECD and other Western organizations. |
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Lithuania became a member of the United Nations on 18 September 1991, and is a signatory to a number of its organizations and other international agreements. |
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Small groups of Friends in Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, and Ukraine attend meetings for worship there. |
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For 19 years, Kaunas became the temporary capital of Lithuania. |
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Soviet Russia had to resolve similar conflicts with the newly established Republic of Finland, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Latvia, and the Republic of Lithuania. |
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In June 1940, the Soviet Union forcibly annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and the disputed Romanian regions of Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and Hertza. |
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Lithuania and Samogitia were ultimately Christianized from 1386 until 1417 by the initiative of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila and his cousin Vytautas. |
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Meanwhile, in the northwestern portion of the empire, Batu's successor and younger brother Berke sent punitive expeditions to Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Poland. |
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Russia imposed the ban on live pig and pork products in response to what it said was the detection of the African Swine Fever virus in EU member states Lithuania and Poland. |
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They banned the Lithuanian press, closed cultural and educational institutions, and made Lithuania part of a new administrative region called Northwestern Krai. |
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After the enlargement of the EU in 2004, a wave of immigrants has arrived from Central and Northern Europe, particularly Poland, Sweden and Lithuania. |
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The vehicle moving from Lithuania to Uzbekistan with 19 tons of frozen pangasius steaks produced in Vietnam was stopped on the border with Latvia. |
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Further north, in rural Lithuania, a folk clarinet has a cylindrical tube closed at the top, with idioglot reed taken in the player's mouth for its entire length. |
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Bone and stone artefacts similar to those found at Kunda have been discovered elsewhere in Estonia, as well as in Latvia, northern Lithuania and southern Finland. |
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Lithuania has been among the fastest growing economies in the European Union and is ranked 21st in the world in the 2017 Ease of Doing Business Index. |
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As World War I neared its end, Lithuania's Act of Independence was signed on 16 February 1918, declaring the founding of the modern Republic of Lithuania. |
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Hunziker received the organization's Friend of Lithuania award, which was presented by the president of the Republic of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus. |
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In Poland and Lithuania, Alans where also part of powerful Clan of Ostoja. |
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In 2008-2010 the LiDAR data were captured for all territory of Lithuania. |
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These link Riga with the major ports of Ventspils and Liepaja and international routes to Estonia in the north, Russia to the north and east as well as Lithuania to the south. |
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Similar treaties were signed by Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and later by Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. |
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An important tenet of the modern states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is that their incorporation into the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1991 constituted an illegal occupation. |
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The Hanseatic League, an alliance of trading cities, facilitated the absorption of vast areas of Poland, Lithuania and Livonia into trade with other European countries. |
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Elsewhere, ethnic Poles constitute large minorities in Germany, northern Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Hungary, northeast Lithuania and western Belarus and Ukraine. |
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In the Northern Europe, Konrad of Masovia gave Chelmno to the Teutonic Knights in 1226 as a base for a Crusade against the Old Prussians and Grand Duchy of Lithuania. |
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The next rotating EU presidency, Lithuania, will propose the discussion of Bulgaria's accession to the Schengen area despite opposition from some Member States. |
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