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15 December 1997 “IT is CLEARLY STATED THAT RUSSIA is a guarantor of security for a friendly neighboring state,” said Russian President Boris Yeltsin, after signing a border treaty with Lithuania in Moscow in late October. If a country were to threaten the Baltic country, “they will have to deal with us,” Yeltsin said. But […]