On November 7, the Lithuanian Seimas passed the Law on National Minorities. It is now awaiting the president’s signature, if signed, it will come into effect on January 1, 2025.

  Years-long dispute over Polish signs in the Vilnius Region came back when in May the National Language Inspectorate (lit. Valstybinė kalbos inspekcija), invoking the protection of the Lithuanian language,

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 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

“I have the right to the original spelling of names and surnames” -It is the title of the campaign of the European Foundation of Human Rights, in short EFHR, which

“Common historic road of people of different nationalities living in Lithuania is closely connected with the fate of Lithuanian nation and therefore conditions determine the identity of common goals” –

At the end of October I had the pleasure to participate in a conference on the theory and practice of legal regulations concerning national minorities. Ljubica Djordjević, Fernand De Varennes,

  ‘If Polish society would be given exceptional rights it would give Russia and groups dependent on it a pretext to demand same rights for Russian societies in all Baltic

The first and the only street name plate with the name of Warszawska Street in Polish disappeared unexpectedly from the vicinity of Rasos Cemetery in Vilnius. Only two months ago,

“We strongly encourage to organising meetings and to cooperation of different autonomies and cities. The more events will be organised, the better we get to know each other, the less