In the Seimas, there is only one step left before the adoption of the Act on National Minorities. On Tuesday, October 1st, the draft bill passed its second reading. 72

Jarosław Wołkonowski sought the right to the original spelling of his name since 1992. The District Court adopted a sentence on the 1st of June 2022 (judge Skaistė Cinkutė) that

Legalising the spelling of female surnames with the ending ‘-a’ would have a negative impact on the linguistic and cultural identity of our country and is incompatible with the tradition

Jarosław Niewierowicz, chief advisor to the president of Lithuania- Gitanas Nausėda and head of the Environment and Infrastructure Group in the Chancellery of the president of the Republic of Lithuania,

Constitutional Court sides with the original spelling of surnames The Constitutional Court declared that the letters “x”, “q” and “w” in official documents are not contradictory to the Basic Law.

The Sejm will consider an amendment to the law concerning the entry of names and last names in documents. This new law provides for the possibility of adding the endings

The Constitutional Court (CC) on Tuesday, 20 June, began considering a motion filed earlier by a group of MPs as to whether it is constitutional to allow Lithuanian citizens’ names

As new laws came into force in Lithuania at the beginning of May, allowing the original spelling of first and last names to be written in identity documents, the first

In the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, two very important for Poles in Lithuania amendments were considered, without which the recently adopted  Law on the Spelling of Names would

The local government of Vilnius finalized the first step in the digitalization of personal data from the Vilnian cemeteries. The permits for burial will now be issued online. Unfortunately, a