Thanks Peter

for your valuable info on the enclaves.
This is the first time I've heard the name
of the Russian one.

Thanks for the translation as well.

Rolf (Palmberg)

>After a more thorough search on the internet, I have come up with an
>article in the Belorussian
>newspaper Vecherniy Minsk, which appeared in 1996 (I couldn't find a date
>on the site that was more
>specific than this). It appears that in this year the Lithuanian enclave
>Pagiriai indeed ceased to
>exist. The Russian enclave San'kovo-Medvezh'e still existed at that date,
>but in the article there
>is talk of the possibility of a similar fate for that enclave in the
>future. Whether the Russian
>enclave still exists remains therefore to be seen. In a Russian government
>document dated June 29,
>1998 (the establishment of the zone of radioactive pollution following the
>Chernobyl disaster), the
>two villages are still mentioned as part of Zlynka rayon, Dobrodeyevka
>village council (Bryansk
>province).
>
>So Pagiriai can now join the ranks of the Steinstueckens and the
>Verenahofs of this world, while
>there still is a fair amount of hope for San'kovo-Medvezh'e.
>
>Since I don't think many of you can read Russian, I'm enclosing a
>translation I made of the
>Vecherniy Minsk article.
>
>Peter S.
>
>
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