Interesting signals from the Kremlin
Feb 24, 2010
By Rokas M. Tracevskis

THE PEAK OF GOOD RELATIONS: On Sept. 8, 1992, in Moscow, Lithuanian Defense Minister Audrius Butkevicius (left) and Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev signed a Lithuanian-Russian agreement on the final withdrawal of Russian troops, requiring them to be out of Lithuania by Aug. 31, 1993. *
VILNIUS - Last week, Russia’s president invited Estonian and Latvian presidents to watch the Russian military parade in Red Square in Moscow, on May 9. The Lithuanian president did not receive such an invitation and will go to Ireland on May 9. The Kremlin’s invitations to celebrate the end of WWII are very controversial in the Baltics due to the fact that the end of WWII did not bring freedom to the Balts. However, Lithuania got something better than the controversial invitation, ...
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