Brussels: The Lithuanian politician who tipped over the first domino in the collapse of the Soviet Union by declaring his country's independence has been denied recognition by the nation's parliament. "I am pretty sure Mikhail Gorbachev still wakes up in a sweat in the middle of the night hearing in his head the laughter of Vytautas Landsbergis," Lithuanian journalist Andrius Uzkalnis wrote on Thursday after the news broke. Mr...
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