Subject: Pagiriai and San&#39;kovo-Medvezh&#39;e<br/>
Date: Mar 02, 2001 @ 08:59<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (Peter Smaardijk &lt;peter.smaardijk@and.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1185261043">After a more thorough search on the internet, I have come up with an article in the Belorussian<br/>
newspaper Vecherniy Minsk, which appeared in 1996 (I couldn&#39;t find a date on the site that was more<br/>
specific than this). It appears that in this year the Lithuanian enclave Pagiriai indeed ceased to<br/>
exist. The Russian enclave San&#39;kovo-Medvezh&#39;e still existed at that date, but in the article there<br/>
is talk of the possibility of a similar fate for that enclave in the future. Whether the Russian<br/>
enclave still exists remains therefore to be seen. In a Russian government document dated June 29,<br/>
1998 (the establishment of the zone of radioactive pollution following the Chernobyl disaster), the<br/>
two villages are still mentioned as part of Zlynka rayon, Dobrodeyevka village council (Bryansk<br/>
province).<br/>
<br/>
So Pagiriai can now join the ranks of the Steinstueckens and the Verenahofs of this world, while<br/>
there still is a fair amount of hope for San&#39;kovo-Medvezh&#39;e.<br/>
<br/>
Since I don&#39;t think many of you can read Russian, I&#39;m enclosing a translation I made of the<br/>
Vecherniy Minsk article.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>