Background: 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, but Moscow did not recognize this proclamation
until September of 1991 (following the abortive coup in Moscow).
The last Russian troops withdrew in 1993. Lithuania subsequently
restructured its economy for integration into Western European
institutions; it joined both NATO and the EU in the spring of
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