X-Nico

unusual facts about Republic of Lithuania



John Cloud

John A. Cloud is a professor in the National Security Affairs Department of the U.S. Naval War College and former ambassador for the United States of America to the Republic of Lithuania.

Litvin

According to Belarusian historian Anatol Hrytskievich, lands of modern north-western Belarus constituted the major part of historical Lithuania and one should therefore not associate the medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania exclusively with the modern Republic of Lithuania.


see also

Kūris

Egidijus Kūris (born 1961), former President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania

Litvin

Others, to the contrary, propose the idea of a unification with the modern Republic of Lithuania basing on common roots of the Belarusian and modern Lithuanian statehood in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.