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[email protected] Lietuvos nacionalinė THE l lilI A'l) M.Mažvydo biblioteka Į | 1 ) *1 l Į 1 VOLUME i number i ENGLISH EDITION JULY 1996 Draugas welcomes The Tenth Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival U. S. Support for Estonia, Russian victory in Chechnya Latvia, Lithuania dangerous for Baltic countries Vilnius, June 21, BNS — that Russia has lošt the war in Durna MP Konstantin Borovoj, Chechnya. According to him, Washington, D.C., June 25 lar crime. The U.S. has provid deputy from the Economic Free- this is better for Russia itself (The White House). The Clinton ed experts to help the Baltic dom party and member of the and for neighboring countries. Administration is committed to statės cope vvith bank fraud and group on cooperation with the He did not rule out that in the the integration of all of Europe’s strengthen their financial Baltic countries who visited event of a “successful war” i n new democracies, including Es systems. The FBI is scheduled Lithuania, expects that vvith Chechnya, the Baltic countries tonia, Latvia and Lithuania, to open an office in Tallinn in Alexander Lebed’s advent in too vvould be threatened. with the Transatlantic com- the next year. the Russian security council an munity. The U.S. seeks to elimi- The United States provided Asked about the Yeltsin-Le- end to the war in Chechnya is bed union, Borovoy said that nate the legacy of Europe’s Cold $8.5 million for the demolition more likely.