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Unlike other countries, Lithuania became independent on two separate occasions. Lithuania first declared itself from Czarist Russia on February 16, 1918. They remained an independent nation till 1940, when the erstwhile Soviet Union annexed it. After remaining under Soviet Union for almost 50 years, the Republic of Lithuania became independent once again in 1990.
In early 2005, Belarus was listed by the US as Europe's only remaining outpost of tyranny. In late 2008, there were some signs of a slight easing of tensions with the West, though this proved to be only a temporary thaw. The country became independent in 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union.he present borders of Belarus were established during the turmoil of World War II. The former Soviet republic was occupied by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944, when it lost 2.2 million people, including almost all of its large Jewish population.