ESTONIANS MARK 56TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT.

Some 20 Estonian activists from the Estonian National IndependenceParty picketed the Russian embassy in Tallinn August 23 to markthe 56th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentroppact, BNS reported. That pact and its secret protocol which allowedStalin to seize all three Baltic countries set off World War II.Meanwhile, the Lithuanian government decided to declare August31 "Liberation Day" to mark the anniversary of the withdrawalof Russian troops from that country two years ago.

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