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Aleksander Srebrakowski: I do not know whether the opinion about autonomy makes sense

Poles in Lithuania did not organize hit squads, furthermore they were continuously underlining their desire to form the autonomy within Lithuania, but not detaching from the republic, said to zw.lt
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Will there be no bilingual inscriptions?

Last week Parliament’s Human Rights Committee approved a bill on national minorities filed by EAPL in the Sejm , but it removed the regulation of bilingual inscriptions. After taking into
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Kirkilas: No consensus on the Law on National Minorities in the coalition

Accoring to a member of the Seimas Gediminas Kirkilas, the Social Democrats sill want to adopt the Law on National Minorities but some members of the governing coalition are reluctant
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The Lithuanian Seimas removes a draft bill on national minorities from the agenda

On Thursday, Seimas removed two draft bills from the agenda: a draft Law on National Minorities that is supposed to regulate bilingual signs in town densely populated by ethnic minorities,
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“Old name, new content”: Polish Philology at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences

The admission process at Lithuanian universities has begun. One of the places for which high school graduates can apply is the Polish Language, Culture Study and Didactics Centre at the
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Bookstore ‘Elephas’ : There are not so many places in Vilnius where you can get

‘ We hope that a paper traditional book will outlive these difficult times and despite the existance of e-books will be gladly bought in the future’ said Dorota Latkowska. She
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Proud to be from Maišiagala: The 3rd Maišiagala Town Festival

“We always proudly say: ‘I’m from Maišiagala,’ and we’re right to be proud, since our town is one of the first ones mentioned in historical sources from 12th and 13th
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Vice-Minister delegated by AWPL on the President’s blacklist

The so-called “STT’s [Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Lithuania] blacklist” contains names of 9 vice-ministers from 5 ministries, TV3 reports. The list includes the names of all four
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Beside Tomaszewski, Poles support Uspaskich and Paksas

A poll conducted by the Institute of Political Sciences at the Mykolas Romeris University shows that a vast majority of Poles based in Lithuania votes for and supports AWPL (Electoral
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Kubilius afraid that Tomaszewski will be chosen for the mayor of Vilnius

The Lithuanian opposition leader Andrius Kubilius criticized the amendments regarding direct mayoral elections, which had been initiated by the Social Democrats. He disapproved of these amendments because, according to him,
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