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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
1988 October 9: Latvijas Tautas fronte, Popular Front of Latvia, Founded
1911 October 10: National Day of the Republic of China, Taiwan
1492 October 12: Indigenous Peoples’ Day
October 14: Defender of Ukraine Day
2008 October 15: International Parliamentarians for West Papua launches at the British Parliament in Westminster
1991 October 18: Azerbaijan Independence Day
1984 October 19: Murder of Polish priest Jerzy Popiełuszko by security service
1953 October 22: Laos Independence Day
1956 October 23 – November 10: Hungarian Uprising
1955 October 26: Austrian National Day
2014 October 26: Hong Kong Umbrella Movement begins
2017 October 27: Catalan Declaration of Independence
1918 October 28: Independent Czechoslovak State Day
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NATO and Japan intensify dialogue on cyber defence
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US will help Baltic states to secure Baltic energy grid
Estonia welcomes new generation HD
Estonian formin calls on Turkey to end unilateral military action in northeastern Syria
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Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art to open “Unexpected Encounters”, an exhibition dedicated to science fiction
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Belarus nuclear plant may launch first reactor in January 2020
Germany’s Continental plans biggest manufacturing investment in Lithuania in 20 years
Countries involved in EU cyber force creation meet in Vilnius
Detained Ingush land-deal activists denied access to lawyers
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‘Truce’ in Donbas: 26 Ukrainian soldiers killed, 75 wounded since July
Russia demands 20 and 15-year sentences against Crimean Tatar rights activist and five other Ukrainian political prisoners
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Petition calls for US to recognize Taiwan as independent nation
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Russia and China to sign internet censorship treaty
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Estonia Casts Doubts Over World’s Longest Undersea Rail Tunnel
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Vilnius calls for NATO to deploy air defences in Lithuania
Lithuania’s last partisan Kraujelis-Siaubūnas to be buried in Vilnius
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Migration raises brain drain concerns for many CEE countries as regional economy slows
Denmark to strip foreign fighters of Danish citizenship
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Dalai Lama hints at possibility of him visiting China and Tibet in near future
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Chairs of Nordic and Baltic parliament committees meet in Sweden
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Estonian IT minister Kert Kingo replaces Huawei phone
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Tallinn University targeted by Russian propaganda
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Bank of Estonia: Pension reform to unsettle economy
Leelo Tungal received Baltic Assembly Literature Prize
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Lithuanian language should be part of Holocaust centre in Jerusalem
US mechanised battalion with heavy armour deploys to Lithuania
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Estonian president invites Hungarian, Finnish, Russian presidents to World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples
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Latvian goverment warns exporters about U.S. sanctions against Turkey
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Euro 2020 qualifier between Bulgaria and England paused twice over racist abuse
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