Nation celebrates as landmark 1918 document is tracked down in a German archive months before centenary yearA copy of Lithuania’s lost declaration of independence,drawn up in 1918, has been discovered languishing in a German archive, and hailed by authorities as the discovery of the nation’s “birth certificate”. Liudas Mazylis,political science professor at Lithuania’s Vytautas Magnus University, told Reuters that his find on Wednesday was the culmination of an eight-month search. Related: alert for Russia: Lithuanians taught how to resist invasion Continue reading...
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