Lithuania

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FACTS (2)
EVENTS (4)

Mar 2005	Length, in miles, of a rubber hose used until last fall to smuggle vodka from Belarus to Lithuania: 2	Harper's Index Source: State Border Guard Service (Vilnius, Lithuania)
May 2001	Number of visitors since 1999 to a Lithuanian theme park depicting life in a Stalinist gulag: 100,000	Harper's Index Source: Hesona Club (Druskininkai, Lithuania)

November 6, 2004	Officials in Lithuania were looking for a radioactive $100 bill.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Reuters
April 9, 2004	Lithuania's parliament impeached President Rolandas Paksas.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: 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.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
January 25, 2000	Lithuania was pondering changing its name.	Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen Source: Reuters

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