Prisoner in the Vatican the Basilica of St. John Lateran, situated on the opposite side of the city of Rome, and to travel regularly to their summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, from Rome. Prisoner in the Vatican A prisoner in the Vatican or prisoner of the Vatican (; ) is how Pope Pius IX was described following the capture of Rome by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy on 20 September 1870. Part of the process of Italian unification, the city's capture ended the millennial temporal rule of the popes over central Italy and allowed Rome to be designated the capital of
International reactions to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation – Presidents of the two countries called for NATO consultations in accordance with Article 4 of its treaty claiming Russia was executing military maneuvers in Kaliningrad, close to both their borders. On April 14, 2014, a group of Estonian Russophone social activists published an address titled "" in response to the situation in Ukraine. By the morning of April 20 Memorandum was signed by 779 persons. The Memorandum basically stated that the signatories do not need any protection from the outside and do not support separatist statements made in the name of the Estonian Russophone community. The International Workers' Association,