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A move in Russia to review the legality of a 1991 decision formally granting Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia independence from the Soviet Union has alarmed the Baltic States and stoked tensions in ties with Moscow.
The Baltic states declared independence in 1990 and 1991, and activists in Lithuania and Latvia were killed in attempts by Soviet forces to quell rebellion. The events have been a matter of particular sensitivity in the three countries since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, another former Soviet republic.
The Russian prosecutor-general’s office said on Tuesday it would review a decision by the Soviet Union’s State Council, the highest organ of state power, in the last months of the Soviet empire, to recognize the break. Two members of the United Russia party loyal to President Vladimir Putin have termed it treason.
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