Znad Wilii

Vainiutė: The issues of homosexual partnership and original spelling need social agreement

In terms of homosexual partnership we will be looking for social agreement – declared an appointed Minister of Justice Milda Vainiutė. “We will be looking for social consensus, only then
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Radczenko: Will there be another reset with Poland?

“I will strive for the reset of relations with Poland”- says since a few weeks in every second interview Saulius Skvernelis, the new prime minister of Lithuania. Whether or not
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Grużewski: Situation of the Polish minority stimulates economical pessimism

„There often lacks a deeper discernment in assessment of Polish-Lithuanian relations or attitudes of national minorities in Lithuania, and these are highly related to the standard of living of these
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Youth of Nemėžis wants to talk about diversity and tolerance

“Students wanted to break stereotypes and talk about issues which, in public eye, are presented in a slightly different light. I think they succeeded. In the film we can see
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Skvernelis: I will try to reset relations with Poland

The new program of the government provides for repairing relations with Poland and strengthening the cooperation with the US. The new government will support countries of the Eastern Partnership: Ukraine,
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Poles among the most pessimistic people regarding the future of Lithuania

Despite the changes in the government, the citizens of Lithuania continue to have a pessimistic view on the future of the Lithuanian state, according to the research conducted by the
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Tomaszewski: LLRA does not have a Facebook profile because we put on the direct contact

The leader of LLRA Waldemar Tomaszewski said for lrt.lt that LLRA does not have a Facebook profile because there is an additional person needed to run the page. “There is
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Radczenko: Two extremities divide Polish community in half.

Romuald Mieczkowski in a few continuous editions of quarterly “Znad Willi” presented his theory about two extremities and three Vilnius Regions, with which I would like to polemize: “Some representatives
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Antonowicz: There will be no improvement of Polish-Lithuanian relations

The change of government in Lithuania probably will not bring any improvement in Polish-Lithuanian relations – claims a political scientists of the Institute of International Relation and Political Science of
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Defective codes of memory or how we distort history

“Polish concentration camps”, “comrades were shooting each other”, “polonized Lithuanians live in the Vilnius region” – these are only a few examples of so called defective codes of memory –
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