ENDuring the first year of independence, greater attention was paid to cooperation of the Baltic States. Recently, however, a shift has been made towards the Baltic region and Nordic countries. The part of Baltic in our identity is getting smaller; the perception of Post-Soviet tends to disappear. The perception of we is more segmented and overlapped, at the same time we is reinforced by Nordic and Baltic identity, while maintaining strong support for the Eastern European countries as part of Lithuanian national interests. [Extract, p. 63]