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Fot. Antoni Radczenko

EAPL: We haven’t striven for a meeting with Borusewicz

Press office of EAPL has published a statement concerning a meeting of Bogdan Borusewicz, Speaker of the Polish Senate, with the Polish Debating Club. EAPL claims it has never striven
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Znad Wilii 2015-04-17
Photo. The Polish Embassy in Vilnius

The March of the Living: Vilnius honors the victims of Holocaust

As part of the Holocaust Memorial Day, today Vilnius hosted the traditional March of the Living starting at the railway station and culminating at the Paneriai Memorial. The March was
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Znad Wilii 2015-04-16
Fot. Andrius Ufartas

The history of Kraszewski Vilnius is now available in Lithuanian

The book by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski entitled „Vilnius from its beginning until 1750. Volume I” is now available in the Lithuanian bookshoops for the first time in Lithuanian language. For
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L24.lt 2015-04-15
Photo. BFL/Kęstutis Vanagas

Rudomino middle schools – which one is better?

‘There is no need to fear that a Polish school will be worse than a Lithuanian one’ – says Mariusz Palewicz, student of econometrics, who in his paper compared statistical
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Znad Wilii 2015-04-15
According to the statistical survey, the Polish diaspora in Lithuania decreased from over 200 thousand to 165 thousand people in the last few years. Phot. Marian Paluszkiewicz

Rapidly decreasing number of Poles in Lithuania

The number of Lithuanian Poles has rapidly decreased in the last three years. According to the 2011 census, the Polish identity was declared by over 200 thousand of the country’s
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Kurier Wileński 2015-04-15
During the rally in front of the Lithuanian Minitry of Education and Sciene's building, fot. wilnoteka.lt/Bartosz Frątczak

Syrokomla School demands an immediate approval for accreditation

Wł. Syrokomla High School’s community claims that the school meets all the requirements to receive a junior high school status. Local authorities from the capital share this opinion. In December,
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Wilnoteka 2015-04-14
The districts of Vilnius areas cope with bilingual information boards - in Polish and in Lithuanian - on cementaries differently. Fot. Marian Paluszkiewicz

A Polish word on Lithuanian cementaries

Lithuanian nationalists, during one of their rallies against local Polish, were said to have threaten them that if they wanted to have Polish inscriptions in the public, they would get
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Kurier Wileński 2015-04-14
Fot. Teresa Worobiej

The victims of Katyń massacre and Smoleńsk catastrophy commemorated in Jałówka

The board commemorating the victims of Katyń massacre and Smoleńsk catastrophy was unveiled and consecrated today in st. Jan Bosko high school in Jałówka, located in Vilnius area. Moreover, the
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L24.lt 2015-04-14
Waldemar Dowejko, fot. wilnoteka.lt/B. Frątczak

Waldemar Dowejko: the Vilnius area does not equal only Vilnius bread and palms

“Sometimes, wanting to preserve culture and tradition, we tend to forget about the dynamically changing present. It happens also with regard to Vilnius”, says Waldemar Dowejko. The works of this
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Wilnoteka 2015-04-14
Fot. zw.lt

International Gathering of Poets of Polish descent in Vilnius

II International Gathering of Poets of Polish descent “Vilnius – the cradle of the Polish romanticism – a European city of writers” has just began and will last until Friday,
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Znad Wilii 2015-04-14