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Something (2013) 

Lithuania - Ukraine and their Grand Duchy 

EUROVISION COUNTRY: Lithuania
KYIV DESTINATION: Klaipeda Brewery
The poster above for an annual arts festival between Lithuania and Ukraine shows that there is a special relationship between Ukraine and Lithuania. This is because for 200 years the two countries (along with Belarus and Poland) formed a single European super state from 1362 until 1569 that stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
There are no buildings left from that period still standing today.
All photos courtesy of Klaipeda Gastro Bar
However there is a Lithuanian brewery in Kyiv, Klaipeda Gastro Bar http://klaipeda.com.ua.  This small underground bar is a chain and has four locations in Kyiv and provides food and a variety of bottled and draught Lithuanian micro-brewery beers.
The four sites are, near Maidan Square on 1, Taras Schevchenko St.; 37/210 Nizhniy Val  in Podil; Near Lva Tolstovo metro on 44 Krasnoarmeiska St.; and finally near Lukyanovska metro station on 23 Pavlovskaya St.
Lithuanian embassy:
Address: 21, Buslivaka St, Kyiv, 01901
Tel:          +380 44 254 0920
Website: http://ua.mfa.lt
What other Lithuanian links are there?
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