The summit, held at a wedding-cake hotel on the Baltic coast, brought a surprise offer from Russia's president, Vladimir Putin.

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At the time, DPTG helped finance the backbone of what would become the Polish telecommunications infrastructure, a system that links the Baltic coast to the south of Poland, known as the North-South Link.

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This is how I whiled away one long summer night at a wedding reception on the Baltic coast of Sweden: hearing toasts, crooning local drinking songs and draining a profusion of little nips bottles of something called snaps (which is pronounced "schnahps, " but is very different from dessert-like schnapps).

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The northern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerian region, which sits along the coast of the Baltic Sea, was a part of former East Germany.

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The Saints will play the first, home leg at Newtown's Latham Park, with the return in Ventspils, a city in north-western Latvia on the coast of the Baltic Sea.

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