VILNIUS, LITHUANIA - FEBRUARY 16: Young women dressed in traditional southern Lithuanian winter dress walk next to one of the many bonfires lit on Gedimino avenue in the city center to mark the 100th anniversary of the restoration of Lithuanian statehood on February 16, 2018 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Celebrations are taking place throughout today in Lithuania to mark the day on February 16, 1918 when, as World War I was grinding towards its end, signatories launched the Act of Reinstating the Independence of Lithuania. Once a Kingdom and later a Grand Duchy, Lithuania in recent centuries had been divided between its neighbors, Poland and Russia. In World War II Lithuania was occupied by Soviet forces and then Nazi Germany. Afterwards it was absorbed into the Soviet Union until independence in 1990. Today Lithuania is a member of the European Union and NATO. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
