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Polish scientists in Lithuania: It was a difficult, but very successful year

“Scientists are not to please politicians or even media. Sometimes we need to raise difficult topics” – says Prof. Henryk Malewski, chairman of the Association of Polish Scholars of Lithuania
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Butkevičius: Solution on the Problem of the Spelling Non-Lithuanian Names

2015 was successful for Lithuania. For me it was a year of hard work. We had plenty of goals I it thing that those basis are accomplished. We would  like
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Grybauskaitė: Co-operation with Poland is really fruitful

“Lithuania and Poland purse the same goals,” President Dalia Grybauskaitė stated in an interview for a weekly magazine, “Veidas.” “Lithuanian-Polish relations are surrounded by a great deal of myths; people
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The local government raises the bar for headmasters

“Certification of heads of educational institutions is not a formality any more,” the Vilnius City Municipality claims. The authorities of the city examine carefully whether heads of schools and kindergartens
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The AWPL advertising in the Russian media financed entirely by the state

On Tuesday the Central Electoral Commission announced a summary financial statement of the local government election – the statement of the income, expenditure, and debt of the parties pertaining to
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Mieńkowska-Norkienė: Election campaigns in Lithuania are characterized by anti-Polish rhetoric

“For Lithuania – in comparison with Poland – the past year was quiet peaceful. I think the next year will be much more interesting from the political and sociological perspective”
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110,000 zloty – the balance of the “A Package for a Countryman and Hero in

110,000 zloty is the balance of the 2nd edition of the “A Package for a Countryman and Hero in Kresy” campaign. 900 packages got to Poles living in the Vilnius
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Next Teachers’ Strike in January

The government are failing to take the interest of teachers into account. Moreover, they show no desire to solve the problems related to national minority schools – and that is
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The Seimas has adopted a resolution concerning national minorities’ schools

In the resolution adopted on Thursday the Seimas stated that Lithuania is still obliged to “guarantee the representatives of national communities learning conditions in secondary schools, in which they can
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Steponavičius: EAPL did not sign the resolution on national minorities’ schools

We registered a resolution on national minorities’ schools in the Seimas as a reaction to the statement by the former head of the National Security Department – said Gintaras Steponavičius, the
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