When Juozas Olekas was 10 years old, his parents took him on a long train trip from Vilnius to Moscow by way of St. Petersburg. They went as far east as Krasnoyarsk and then 70 kilometers (43 miles) further to Bolshoy Ungut, Siberia. The idea was for young Juozas to get to know the place of his birth.
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Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas (L), Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius (C) and Latvia Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma attend a press conference after a session of the Baltic Council of Ministers meeting in Vilnius on April 10, 2015.
