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New Prime Minister visits Šalčininkai

The Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevičius will pay Šalčininkai a visit next Thursday. He will be accompanied by the deputy minister of Education and Science Edita Tamošiūnaitė, the deputy
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The discussions on education

Audronė Pitrėnienė, the chairwoman of the Parliamentary Committee for Education, Science and Culture; members of parliament from the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania, Rita Tamašunienė, Wanda Krawczonok, Michał Mackiewicz,
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Before going to Warsaw Linkevičius visited Niemież

Today, after a long break, ministers of foreign affairs of Poland and Lithuania – Linas Linkevičius and Radosław Sikorski – are meeting operationally in Warsaw. Yesterday the chief of the
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The politics of discrimination against ‘Kurier Wileński’ still present

Despite the change of the government in Lithuania, the politics of discrimination directed at ‘Kurier Wileński’ (‘Courier of Vilnius’) is still present. The Fund for Support of the Press, Radio
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Lithuanian in a blind alley

On March 17, 2011, the Parliament adopted an amendment to the Education Act. The decisions were preceded with numerous protests of the Polish community in Lithuania : over 60,000 signatures
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Forum of Parents from the Polish schools in Lithuania announces the mobilization to fight for

Forum of Parents from the Polish schools in Lithuania has made a statement, in which they voiced their categorical protest against the unification of the “Matura” examination of the Lithuanian
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EAPL: The unification of the Lithuanian language exam is unacceptable

According to the announcements the next operational meetings of the EAPL’s leadership with the representatives delegated by the party to the state departments are held. On the last day of
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New possible changes in the Trocki region

Due to the changes to the coalition in the Trocki Regional Council, the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania became the opposition and lost seats in the Trocki Region Administration.
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“Celebrity duets”: the very last place at the very beginning (Niemyćko’s first failure)

The first show of the singing competition “Celebrity duets” (“Žvaigždžių duetai“) which was judged by a jury ended up with a failure of Katarzyna Niemyćko’s duo. First assessments were not
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Sikora and Vabalis: About multiculturalism, language and identity

Our initial aim was to have one, long conversation with a representative of the local community. After a few hours of conducting our research we noticed that the task was
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