Lithuania

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Contents 1 External Links 1.1 General Reference 1.2 News & Analysis 1.3 History

External Links

General Reference

• BBC Country Profile
• CIA World Fact Book
• EIA Energy Data
• Ethnologue linguistic information
• United Nations agencies & bureaux
  • Commission on Sustainable Development
  • Social & Economic Data (ECOSOC)
  • Econ. Commission-Europe (ECE)
  • World Health Organization

News & Analysis

• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• Jamestown Foundation
  • "Russian Oil Pipeline Shutoff to Lithuania: Wider Ramifications" (6 June 2007)
  • "Moscow Prepares Unfriendly Takeover of Lithuania's Oil Complex" (1 July 2005)
  • "Quo Vadis Lithuania?" (21 June 2004)
• NY Times
  • "Lithuanians Are Given a Taste of How Russia Plays the Oil Game" (28 Oct 2006)
  • "Lithuanian Parliament Removes Country's President After Casting Votes on Three Charges" (7 Apr 2004)
  • "As NATO Finally Arrives on Its Border, Russia Grumbles" (3 Apr 2004)
  • "A New Role on Lithuania's Horizon; a New Scandal, Too" (28 Dec 2003)
  • "Lithuania Cheers Overwhelming Vote to Join European Union" (12 May 2003)
  • "Eyeing Moscow Warily, Lithuania Clasps NATO" (20 Nov 2002)
  • "Graft in Eastern Europe Is Called Rampant" (7 Nov 2002)
  • "Vilnius Journal; Unearthing Heroes (and Lithuania's Edgy Past)" (6 Oct 1994)

History

• F Smith World History site query

(Lithuania is not a member of the CIS, but was a former republic of the USSR (1940-1991)