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In 2011 Lietuvos paštas issued a stamp, designed by Aušrelė Ratkevičienė, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of ethnically Polish, Lithuanian-born, Czesław Miłosz, who died in 2004 in Kraków, Poland. Miłosz was the self-proclaimed "last citizen of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania," and held three passports at his death: American, Polish, and Lithuanian. He was a world-renowned writer and poet, and winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born 1911 in what was the

In the news: Vladimir Putin – and even Alexei Navalny! – consider Ukrainians no different from, and historically tied to, Russia. It's easy to dispute a supposed lack of difference between Ukrainians and Russians: take language (from wikipedia): Ukrainian is closer to Belarusian, Slovak, Polish and Czech than to Russian – 38% of Ukrainian vocabulary is different from Russian. The difference is similar to that between Spanish and Italian (33% different vocabulary), or French