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Unlike other countries, Lithuania became independent on two separate occasions. Lithuania first declared itself from Czarist Russia on February 16, 1918. They remained an independent nation till 1940, when the erstwhile Soviet Union annexed it. After remaining under Soviet Union for almost 50 years, the Republic of Lithuania became independent once again in 1990.
It has linguistic links with Lithuania to the south and historical and religious ties with Estonia to the north. Not much more than a decade after it declared independence following the collapse of the USSR, Latvia was welcomed as an EU member in May 2004.