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Lithuania

Mar 2005Length, in miles, of a rubber hose used until last fall to smuggle vodka from Belarus to Lithuania: 2
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State Border Guard Service (Vilnius, Lithuania)

May 2001Number of visitors since 1999 to a Lithuanian theme park depicting life in a Stalinist gulag: 100,000
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Hesona Club (Druskininkai, Lithuania)

January 25, 2008 Lithuania was pondering changing its name.
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Reuters

November 6, 2004Officials in Lithuania were looking for a radioactive $100 bill.
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Reuters

April 9, 2004 Lithuania's parliament impeached President Rolandas Paksas.
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International Herald Tribune

April 3, 2004 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia joined NATO; Russia was unhappy about NATO forces creeping so close to its border.
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New York Times


June 2012

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