Kurier Wileński

One more postponement of the Law on Minorities and Surnames

Yesterday, July 10, the Parliament again postponed examining of the projects of the Law on national minorities and Law on spelling non-Lithuanian surnames. Both projects and also alternative project of
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Mrągowo – twentieth Festival of Borderline Culture

On Friday, the 8th August, a crew of artists participating in the twentieth jubilee Festival of Borderline Culture, which will be officially open in the Cultural Centre in Mrągowo, set
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Higher fines for using Polish are coming

Polish minority in Lithuania is still being persecuted for using their native language. At the beginning of this year, the (now ex-) Director of Administration at Šalčininkai District Municipality, Bolesław
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Higher fines for using Polish are coming

Polish minority in Lithuania is still being persecuted for using their native language. At the beginning of this year, the (now ex-) Director of Administration at Šalčininkai District Municipality, Bolesław
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“Who are you?”– your passport will tell

Lithuanian citizens will be allowed to record their nationality in their passports. On Tuesday, President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed the amendment to the Passport Law, adopted by the Seimas a
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Stroll around streets in Vilnius: Memory of Kościuszko is kept alive

We have visited Adam Mickiewicz and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski streets on Žvėrynas, now we go to the city centre. We have seen Joachim Lelewel street and today we go to
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Teodor Linkiewicz: „The future of Polish schools depends on parents”

The 29th July was the last day of work for Teodor Linkiewicz, senior specialist in the Department of Education of the local government in the Trakai District Municipality. He worked
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Wandering around the Vilnius streets: His Music was born out of the Vilnius Soil..

Here  we continue the series materials devoted to great Poles after whom the Vilnius streets are named. Mickiewicz, Lelewel and Krasicki have already been described. Now it is time to
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Before the beginning of the new school year – a glance at renovations of educational

Each year in September we glance at the educational institutions: how are they changing, how are they preparing to enrol new students and welcome the new school year. Before the
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5th graduation ceremony with diplomas with the crowned Eagle on the Vilnius branch of the

Black gowns, red and yellow sashes, mortarboards with tassels, excitement – on 25th July 2014 for the 5th time, which was at the same time a mini-jubilee, the graduates of
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