Did Antanas Sniečkus demur the Lithuanization of the Lithuanian Poles?

Was Vilnius a present to Lithuania given by Stalin or rather an element of his geopolitical Soviet game? Why were the Poles treated in a completely different way, when compared
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Passing the buck

The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language, the institutions that uphold law and order, and even the Constitutional Court have certainly not entered the silly season. A week ago the
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Jarosław Narkiewicz: The old form of the exam needs to be brought back

„A lot of work awaits us in order to protect the position of AWPL (Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania) that won’t change in the coalition: not only the normalised
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Results from Lithuanian exam are worse than they used to be, but still better than

This year 23 227 students in total took their final high school exams (matura exams), including 21 803 students from Lithuanian schools and 1 423 from minorities’’ schools. In schools with Lithuanian as
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Preserving the Fifth School in Vilnius in written form

During the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of establishing the “Kurier Wileński” (“Vilnius Messenger”) newspaper in the Polish communities in Vilnius and the Vilnius Region the history of the newspaper
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Presidency in the shadow of a scandal: how Landsbergis was playing dumb

The inauguration of the Lithuanian Presidency over the European Union was disturbed by a verbal attack on Prof. Mirosław Piotrowski, an MEP for Poland, by Vytautas Landsbergis for the former’s
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Member of Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania punished for unauthorised rally

The Local Court of Trakai has punished Tadeusz Tuczkowski, a member of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania, for holding an unauthorised rally. On May 30, 2013, on the
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Polish students choose to study at the Vilnius University more and more often

In the summer term of the 2012/2013 academic year, seven students from Poland joined the linguists, of whom the Polish Centre of the University of Vilnius takes care. Why did
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21st birthday of the “Znad Wilii” Radio Station

The “Znad Wilii” Radio started life on July 1, 1992, at 2 pm. We have been on the air, broadcasting for our listeners through thick and thin, for 21 years
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Waldemar Tomaszewski: Implementation of government programme is neither effective nor dynamic

The Lithuanian Presidency over the European Union will rather not bring the opportunity to force ahead the solution of the problems of Poles living in Lithuania. However, it can contribute
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