Ambassadors of the three Baltic states have asked the German media to stop referring to Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as "former Soviet republics", reports the Baltic Times. A better description would seem to be "once Soviet-occupied territories" which reasserted their independence after the USSR's break-up.
The BBC, in its Web news pages at least, is more careful to describe them as "Baltic states" and leave it at that.
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