Baltic neighbors rally to support Estonia
May 09, 2007
By Arturas Racas

REMEMBER THE WAY: Lithuanians came out to support Estonia and commemorate the two- million-person chain the Balts organized in 1989.
VILNIUS - Some 2,000 people gathered in Vilnius and another 1,000 in Riga on May 8 to show their solidarity with Estonia in its conflict over the removal of the Bronze Soldier monument in central Tallinn.
The rallies, held simultaneously in several Baltic cities, commemorated the Baltic Way, a mass anti-Soviet protest action held in 1989 in which roughly 2 million Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians joined hands to form a 600-kilometer human chain stretching from Vilnius to Tallinn. In the lar ...
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