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HOW LITHUANIA GRASPED FREEDOM (BBC NEWS, 6 July 2009)

Lithuania is holding festivities to mark 1,000 years since the country was first mentioned in historic chronicles. It is also 20 years since the nation intensified efforts to split from the USSR. The BBC's Olexiy Solohubenko looks back at 1989 and asks how far the country has come.

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