Lithuania's president says her nation is 'already under attack'

Mar. 09, 2015

Q: Conscription into the armed forces is being reintroduced in Lithuania after Internet attacks and "threats and exercises practically every day" by Russian forces, says President Dalia Grybauskaite. Where is the Baltic nation Lithuania?

Circle the area on this map

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Q: Amidst worries about Russia's aggressiveness in the region, European foreign ministers met last week in Riga, the capital of Lithuania's northern neighbor . . .

A. Estonia

B. Belarus

C. Latvia

D. Kaliningrad

Q: The Baltic states – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – have been alarmed by Russia's military actions against the Ukraine, another former republic of the old Soviet Union. But unlike the Ukraine, the Baltic states are all members of the . . .

A. European Union

B. Eurozone

C. NATO

D. All of the above

Q: Which was the first Soviet republic to declare independence from the Russian-dominated communist union?

A. Estonia

B. Lithuania

C. Latvia

D. Ukraine

Q: Britain's defense minister last month called Russia's president a "real and present danger" to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and he said NATO was preparing to meet the threat. Who is Russia's president?

A. Vladimir Putin 

B. Boris Nemtsov

C. Dmitry Medvedev

D. Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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