Independent
between the two World Wars, Lithuania was annexed by the USSR in 1940. On 11 March
1990, Lithuania became the first of the Soviet republics to declare its independence,
Moscow recognized this in September of 1991
Lithuania
subsequently restructured its economy for integration into Western European institutions;
it joined both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004.
Border countries:
Belarus 502 km Latvia 453 km Poland 91 km Russia (Kaliningrad) 227
km
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