Wilnoteka

Lithuanian schools in Vilnius region – no change

Lithuanian Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis announced to the journalists that he doesn’t plan on making local authorities responsible for schools from Vilnius region where classes are taught
Read More

Lithuania unfriendly to tourists?

World Economic Forum just announced the ranking of countries most and least friendly to tourists.  Lithuania’s international image was struck with a hard blow. Bolivia turned out to be the
Read More

Literature and Polish Language Olympiad – Vilnius success

There are as much as seven out of ten winners of the XXIV-th Literature and Polish Language Olympiad who are the pupils of Vilnius schools. The awards of the last
Read More

Last name in Polish only after marrying a Pole?

A new bill on national minorities will be discussed by the Parliament of Lithuania in May. Meanwhile, the President of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language, Daiva Vaišnienė, stated
Read More

Signatures for anti-Polish petition

A list with the signatures of over 17 thousand residents of Lithuania for a petition for the protection of the official language and the Lithuanian territorial integrity has been submitted
Read More

Signatures for anti-Polish petition

A list with the signatures of over 17 thousand residents of Lithuania for a petition for the protection of the official language and the Lithuanian territorial integrity has been submitted
Read More

Is it possible to write the surnames and the names of the roads in Polish?

The working group which deals with the problems of national minorities in Lithuania has just finished their work and presented the recommendations to the Government of Lithuania and to the
Read More

75th anniversary of Polish-Lithuanian relationship normalisation

75 years ago, on 19th March 1938, the Lithuanian government accepted a Polish ultimatum concerning an unconditional establishment of a diplomatic relationship. The decision made in Kaunas ended a several
Read More

The 90th anniversary of the granting of The Vilnius Region to Poland

No grand commemoration, both in Lithuania and Poland, accompanied the 90th anniversary of the international recognition of the annexation of the Vilnius Region (formally – the Middle Lithuania) to the
Read More

„Singing Kindergarten” for the ninth time

IX Festival „Singing Kindergarten” took place in the Polish Community Center in Vilnius. 280 children from 23 kindergartens of Vilnius and Vilnius region participated.  It’s a children song review where
Read More