Grybauskaite adds that "in this difficult times she wants to give her experience" as European Commissioner to her Baltic nation.

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Grybauskaite would inherit leadership of a country that was long considered more stable than its Baltic neighbors.

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Despite the setback,he was upbeat about the future energy needs of the small Baltic nation.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

A rock-throwing crowd attacked parliament in what observers described as the worst street violence the Baltic nation had seen since it regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Molotov-Ribbentrop led to the Soviet annexation of the Baltic peoples.

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Just over two weeks after the start of the German invasion in the west, Soviet troops entered Poland in the east and later occupied the Baltic states as well as parts of Finland and Romania.

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