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A street plaque with a street name in Lithuanian, Hebrew and Yiddish, , fot. facebook.com/remigijus.simasius

Another bilingual street plaque was unveiled in Vilnius

On Žydų (Jewish) st. in Vilnius, there was unveiled a bilingual, actually three-lingual street plaque. A Mayor of Vilnius Remigijus Šimašius and a chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Jews
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Wilnoteka 2016-09-20
Fot. zw.lt

Mokrzecka: away from Vilnius living museum

Polish culture is passé – I heard that for years from friends in real life and on Facebook. And I couldn’t disagree more. Few years ago, before going to university
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Znad Wilii 2016-09-19
Fot. vilnius.lt/Saulius Žiūra

In Vilnius- a plaque in Tatar language

In Vilnius on Totoriu st. on Thursday, 15th September, was unveiled a decorative plaque in Tatar language- not paying attention on appeal of government representative in Vilnius region to take
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Wilnoteka 2016-09-15
Fot. Joanna Bożerodska

The government representative: the bilingual street plaques have to be removed

The government representative in Vilnius region Vilda Vaičiūnienė, adressed a letter to the director of administration of Vilnius Council Alma Vaitkunskienė in which she demanded to remove the plaques with
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Znad Wilii 2016-09-12
Fot. Joanna Bożerodska

Did Edita Tamošiūnaitė illegally campaign in a nursery school?

On Friday, in nursery school pupils’ cabinets in a nursery school „Medynėlis“ in Karolinki, were found campaign materials of a candidate of AWPL-ZChR Edita Tamošiūnaitė. It is possible that the
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Znad Wilii 2016-09-09
Fot. Joanna Bożerodska

Vilnius region and Poles in PKD: national and economic problems

Discussing, in Polish Discussion Club (PKD), on problems concerning Vilnius region and Polish diaspora in Lithuania invited politicians, unfortunately mainly focused on social-economic sphere. The guests of yesterday’s discussion, which
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Znad Wilii 2016-09-08
Krystyna Rutkowska/ Fot. Joanna Bożerodska

Rutkowska about Polish language in Lithuania: it used to be kumpiak, now it is seniūnija

Today we have the newest layer of Lithuanian loan-words (lituanizm), which concern social life, such as: names of posts, means of payment and so on. If means of payment used
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Znad Wilii 2016-09-07
Fot. Przemysław Cebula

On Polish diaspora forum in Krynica- Polish schools in Lithuania

A meeting dedicated to Polish country politics towards Poles living abroad was first discussion panel of Polish Forum in Krynica-Zdrój. Among others, a lot of attention was dedicated to the
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Znad Wilii 2016-09-06
Fot. senat.gov.pl/Katarzyna Czerwińska

Inauguration of the Polonia Advisory Council

On Monday, September 5th in the Senate of the Republic of Poland, the Polonia Advisory Council was officially set up by the Marshal of the Senate. It was created with
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Wilnoteka 2016-09-05
The bilingual sign in Vilnius, the photo by wilnoteka.lt

Warszawska Street in Vilnius – now in Polish

There are two more bilingual plates in Vilnius, Lithuanian-Russian and Lithuanian-Polish. The unveiling of the plate with the name of the street Rusų in Russian in the Vilnius’s old town
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Wilnoteka 2016-09-04