News highlights from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
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News Highlights from October 1999
* The last active Russian soldier in the Baltic states, part of an occupying force that once numbered over 500,000 men, crossed the Latvian border October 25 and returned to Russia.
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News highlights from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
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News Highlights from November 16-November 23, 1998
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The Latvian politician asked to put together a government after elections last month says he has failed to woo [...]

News Highlights from November 30-December 7, 1998
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After more than a year of legal proceedings, a Vilnius court on December 3 found three Stalinist-era agents guilty of massacring a Lithuanian family over fifty years [...]

News Highlights from January 17—January 24, 2000
Baltic officials said on January 18 that they were optimistic about their prospects of winning NATO membership sooner rather than later—saying they expect to be ready to join the U.S.-led alliance by as early as 2002.
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Thursday—May 30, 2002
RIGA (BNS-CITY PAPER) A protester briefly handcuffed himself to Riga Mayor Gundars Bojars during an exposition in Moscow devoted to the Latvian capital, BNS reported. The man in his 20s, whose name was not given, was said to have been a supporter of the fringe communist group the Russian National Bolsheviks that has [...]