Considering the recommendations of the Project Evaluation Commission, the Department of National Minorities allocated 259 thousand EUR funding from the state budget for project activities of cultural and integration centres

Lithuania has committed to respect and defend human rights and freedom, create equal conditions for the self-expression and culture equality of citizens of all nationalities by ratifying The Framework Convention

Social Democratic party has drafted a new legislation regarding national minorities. It would allow municipalities to use a language of the people that live there along with the national language.

Last week (6 June 2015) the scientific conference on the problems of Poles living in Lithuania took place in the Mykolas Romeris University. The scientists from the University’s Institute of

Deputy-leader of the fraction of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (AWPL) that is in the Lithuanian Seym, Wanda Krawczonok, is sure that an act regulating minorities’ rights would

Exactly a year ago, a crowd of Poles went out on the streets of our Vilnius to protest against the new education law. We were accompanied by compatriots of the

“It’s good that recently there have been some positive signs to restore the dialogue between Poland and Lithuania, however, it’s not enough. What we need are concrete decisions made by

“If teaching any religion is to become compulsory in schools, then choosing only one of them may cause objection of people of all other religious denominations”. This is the conclusion

Tomorrow is the election day to Lithuanian Parliament. It is a chance for Polish Associated Group in Lithuania to make the 5 percent minimum which may result in being part

In the comunist period the word попутчик was willingly used to denote people who, though not considering themselves communists and not being members of the Bolshevic Party, supported the system