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Jarosław Narkiewicz: „Lithuanian language protection” is to cover the negative effects of the introduction of

The statement of Jarosław Narkiewicz, the vice chairman of the parliament, was delivered in the behalf of the AWPL fraction during parliament plenary session at 19thjune 2014. Dear Members of
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Poles appeal to Germans to protect rights of national minorities

Yesterday, on June 25th several hundred Lithuanian Poles and representatives of other national minorities picketed outside the German Embassy in Vilnius. They appealed to the German authorities and the Chancellor
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“There’s no language, nationality, or colour barrier here.”: Road race event for the 10th anniversary

As we already announced, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Vilnius are organising a road race event
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Polish child- in a Polish school in Lithuania

Role of the Polish school in a multilingual environment, convincing the parents to accept the Polish educational facility, competitiveness of school providing one’s mother tongue, problems connected with the so-called
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Aleksander Srebrakowski: I do not know whether the opinion about autonomy makes sense

Poles in Lithuania did not organize hit squads, furthermore they were continuously underlining their desire to form the autonomy within Lithuania, but not detaching from the republic, said to zw.lt
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‘They, similarly to soldiers, died with a Polish eagle on the cap’. Searching for tombs

The Association of Care for Tombs of Policemen on the East, headquartered in Warsaw, asks for help in searching for graves of policemen of the II RP on the territory
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Ministry of Education and Science: It is impossible to provide education in a minority language

Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania claims that education in a minority language can be provided for students of nationality using the particular language only if
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The draft Law on National Minorities prepared by the conservatives

The Seimas Human Rights Committee approved changes proposed by the conservatives to their draft Law on National Minorities. According to their draft, the use of bilingual street and town names
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Will there be no bilingual inscriptions?

Last week Parliament’s Human Rights Committee approved a bill on national minorities filed by EAPL in the Sejm , but it removed the regulation of bilingual inscriptions. After taking into
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The lack of the Law on National Minorities becomes an increasing problem

Although the question of national minorities in Lithuania is raised frequently, steps are still not taken towards the legal regulation of the current issues concerning minorities. The lack of the
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