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Experts from the European Council investigated the situation of national minorities in the Šalčininkai District

On July 9, 2013, a delegation of experts from the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities visited the city of Šalcininkai. Among the members
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Andrzej Rzepliński: Lithuanians had to open up for us

“It is a symbolic recognition of me and my work, but, first of all, it is a reward for all the judges of the constitutional courts of Poland and Lithuania,”
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Did Antanas Sniečkus demur the Lithuanization of the Lithuanian Poles?

Was Vilnius a present to Lithuania given by Stalin or rather an element of his geopolitical Soviet game? Why were the Poles treated in a completely different way, when compared
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Passing the buck

The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language, the institutions that uphold law and order, and even the Constitutional Court have certainly not entered the silly season. A week ago the
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Jarosław Narkiewicz: The old form of the exam needs to be brought back

„A lot of work awaits us in order to protect the position of AWPL (Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania) that won’t change in the coalition: not only the normalised
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Results from Lithuanian exam are worse than they used to be, but still better than

This year 23 227 students in total took their final high school exams (matura exams), including 21 803 students from Lithuanian schools and 1 423 from minorities’’ schools. In schools with Lithuanian as
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Preserving the Fifth School in Vilnius in written form

During the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of establishing the “Kurier Wileński” (“Vilnius Messenger”) newspaper in the Polish communities in Vilnius and the Vilnius Region the history of the newspaper
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Presidency in the shadow of a scandal: how Landsbergis was playing dumb

The inauguration of the Lithuanian Presidency over the European Union was disturbed by a verbal attack on Prof. Mirosław Piotrowski, an MEP for Poland, by Vytautas Landsbergis for the former’s
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Member of Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania punished for unauthorised rally

The Local Court of Trakai has punished Tadeusz Tuczkowski, a member of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania, for holding an unauthorised rally. On May 30, 2013, on the
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Polish students choose to study at the Vilnius University more and more often

In the summer term of the 2012/2013 academic year, seven students from Poland joined the linguists, of whom the Polish Centre of the University of Vilnius takes care. Why did
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