Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the Germans, and became republics ...

The President of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs ... They currently operate within the BRELL energy cooperation that uses post-Soviet infrastructure. The decision to abandon this system was made ...

Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the state was ... Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved following ...