Č. Juršėnas: Poland would be worse without Lithuania

“I think it was Poland would be worse without Lithuania , because who else but Poland, Lithuania could tell about the real situation of Polish Lithuanians,” – said in today’s
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“We won’t let our speech be buried”

Nearly 5,000 students and parents protested on Friday, September 2nd, in front of the Presidential Palace in Vilnius against the discriminatory provisions in the Education Act. So many thousands of
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A. Kubilius: These are the words we have been waiting for.

“It won’t work” – that is what I thought after a conversation I had with Andrius Kubilius, the Lithuanian Prime Minister, 20 years after establishing diplomatic relations between Poland and
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Appeal of the Confederation of the Polish Nobility to the President of Lithuania

On Monday, the Polish Nobility Confederation appealed in a letter to Dalia Grybauskaite, the President of Lithuania, for respect and special protection of the rights of the Polish minority in
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Act of defiance or of desperation?

photo of Wilnoteka.lt Is the protest at the President’s office an act of civil disobedience, or perhaps an act of despair and desperation? For the Lithuanian authorities and media it
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20th Anniversary of the Resumption of Polish-Lithuanian Diplomatic Relations

At the beginning of September 1991, the establishment (de jure) or rather the resumption of the diplomatic relations between Poland and Lithuania took place. Last Sunday, Polish Prime Minister, Donald
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Lithuanian government appointed Deputy Minister for National Minorities

The Lithuanian government established a new position in the Department of Culture: the Deputy Minister for National Minorities. At the same time Widtmann Stanislaus, a former Deputy Director of the
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Polish Community about the situation of Polish education

In its position sent to Polish Press Agency, the Polish Community Association expresses opinion that the decisions of the Lithuanian authorities, which aggravate the situation of Polish minority in Lithuania,
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Education law is a revenge

Signatory of the Act of Independence of Lithuania and a former advisor to President Valdas Adamkus – Czeslaw Okinczyc believes that adopted in March this year by the Lithuanian parliament
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Tusk in Lithuania – Polish schools suspend strikes.

The strike committees of Polish schools in Lithuania announced the readiness to strike. It is a form of pressure put on the Lithuanian authorities in order to make them drop
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