In 1994, President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. leader to visit the former Soviet Baltic republics.

CNN: Monday,

The Estonian language is closely related to Finnish but not to the languages of either of the other Baltic republics, Latvia and Lithuania, or to Russian.

BBC: Estonia country profile

When the Baltic Assembly convened in May 1989, committees of economists, scientists, engineers, and technical experts from the three Baltic states organized to begin to ascertain the true economic linkages among the three republics and bilaterally with the Soviet Union.

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