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- Celebrate the wall's fall 9 Nov 2009 06:13 GMT
... an arms buildup, including a "Star Wars" anti-missile defense program, and skillful negotiations with Soviet President ... completely remade. Germany is reunited. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, ...
- Capitalism, democracy lose favour in ex-Soviet bloc 9 Nov 2009 00:27 GMT
... dropped 24 percent in Bulgaria, 20 in Lithuania, 18 in Hungary and eight in Russia. ... polled gave a negative opinion of the military alliance. Russia was considered by all countries except ...
- 20 Years of Collapse 9 Nov 2009 06:11 GMT
... order, comparisons were drawn with the Soviet Army crushing the 1956 anti-Communist rebellion. This new anti-Communist ... even goes after symbols. In June 2008, Lithuania passed a law prohibiting the public display ...
- A salute to Mikhail Gorbachev 8 Nov 2009 22:52 GMT
... but could not feed its own people. Military spending consumed 20% of the economy. In ... many ways, the Soviet Union was an army, disguised as a state. In Afghanistan, the ... had risen in revolt. So, too, Hungarians, Lithuanians, and East Germans. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev ...
- 'Russian King Lear' did the world a huge favour 8 Nov 2009 11:32 GMT
... warheads, but could not feed its people. Military spending consumed 20% of the economy. Afghanistan's ... Afghanistan's mujahedeen were defeating the mighty Red Army. The Poles, secretly funded by Pope John ... had risen in revolt. So too Hungarians, Lithuanians, and East Germans. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev ...
- Rebirth of an old scourge 8 Nov 2009 12:17 GMT
... newly independent states. The Baltic nations - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - regained the freedom ... even forced President Obama to scuttle a missile defense system for Poland and the Czech ... newfound wealth to embark upon a massive military buildup. It champions ultranationalism and ethnic revanchism. ...
- 2 US service members die in Afghanistan 8 Nov 2009 04:34 GMT
... AM EST KABUL (AP) - Two NATO soldiers are missing in western Afghanistan from a ... to locate our missing service members," spokeswoman Navy Capt. Jane Campbell said in the statement. ... from Italy, Spain, the United States and Lithuania. In July, an American soldier was captured ...
- Memoirist wrote 'The Endless Steppe' 8 Nov 2009 08:12 GMT
... born into comfortable circumstances in present-day Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of Poland, where her family ... was sent to fight in the Soviet army and her mother worked in a gypsum mine and ...
- Poland demands US troops be based on Polish soil 6 Nov 2009 16:49 GMT
... Sikorski complained there were only six American soldiers on Polish soil. Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign ... minister, said he was alarmed by recent military exercises conducted by the Russian army in ... – to commemorate the expulsion of a Polish-Lithuanian occupation force from Moscow in 1612. ...
- Poland demands US troops defend border 6 Nov 2009 19:30 GMT
... Sikorski complained there were only six American soldiers on Polish soil. Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign ... minister, said he was alarmed by recent military exercises conducted by the Russian army in ... – to commemorate the expulsion of a Polish-Lithuanian occupation force from Moscow in 1612. ...
- Two NATO soldiers missing in Afghanistan 6 Nov 2009 15:50 GMT
... The soldiers, whose nationality was not released, went missing ... informed as information becomes available." NATO comprises military personnel from 43 nations, with those deployed ... from the United States, Italy, Spain and Lithuania. Barack Obama is currently considering a request ...
- Taliban claims to hold soldiers' bodies 6 Nov 2009 17:31 GMT
... forces mounted a search for the missing soldiers. Police in the area said the bodies ... was no official confirmation from the US military of the account given by the police. ... and press officer for the force. and Lithuania and Spain also have toops there. Officials ...
- Concern over missing Nato soldiers 6 Nov 2009 17:18 GMT
... Two Nato soldiers are missing in western Afghanistan after a ... provide any details of the resupply mission. Military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, ... mainly from the US, Italy, Spain and Lithuania. The Defence Ministry in Vilnius said no ...
- The estate of horror... 4 Nov 2009 22:18 GMT
... Dalia Grybauskaite the exhibition of the post-WWII Lithuanian guerrilla movement in the former KGB headquarters. ... in accordance with rulings by a USSR military tribunal and special sittings. The majority, 613 ... After the Soviets regained Lithuania, the Red Army sought and found revenge. Some Catholic clergy, ...
- Chemical, biological weapons use should be war crime, Dutch say 6 Nov 2009 15:51 GMT
... Copely has lost her bid to gain Lithuanian citizenship and thus her ability to represent ... in the deadly shooting at the US Army base in Fort Hood by an army psychiatrist who ...
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