The designation of state sponsors of terrorism by the United States--and the imposition of sanctions--is a mechanism for isolating nations that use terrorism as a means of political expression.
The United States is firmly committed to removing countries from the list once they have taken necessary steps to end their link to terrorism.
Opposition leaders in London contended that the IIS had dispatched women agents to infiltrate their ranks and was targeting dissidents for assassination.
The united Lithuanian state, which included the Duchy of Lithuania and a few other duchies, may be tentatively called the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: in the Ruthenian tradition grand dukes were the ones who had a few minor dukes as their subjects (Mindaugas was to be awarded this title in the Ruthenian chronicles).
Lithuania in the narrow sense - the former territory of the Duchy of Lithuania - was the nucleus of this state.
This leader referred to the Lithuanian army as his own army; thus, we may conclude that he was the ruler of all of Lithuania.