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View shows the historic document called Lithuania's "birth certificate", taken on January 17, 2018 in Vilnius, during a handing-over ceremony launching the celebrations for the country's 100 years of independence. The 1918 document, which was unearthed in a Berlin archive last year by a Lithuanian professor, will stay in Lithuania for five years under a bilateral agreement, after Germany loaned Lithuania its long-lost declaration of independence on January 17, 2018 as the Baltic nation prepares to mark one hundred years since it restored statehood after World War I. / AFP PHOTO / Petras Malukas (Photo credit should read PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)

View shows the historic document called Lithuania's "birth certificate", taken on January 17, 2018 in Vilnius, during a handing-over ceremony launching the celebrations for the country's 100 years of independence.
The 1918 document, which was unearthed in a Berlin archive last year by a Lithuanian professor, will stay in Lithuania for five years under a bilateral agreement, after Germany loaned Lithuania its long-lost declaration of independence on January 17, 2018 as the Baltic nation prepares to mark one hundred years since it restored statehood after World War I. / AFP PHOTO / Petras Malukas        (Photo credit should read PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)