Ethnic minorities

  • Society

Lithuania’s LRT television to significantly expand its Russian-language programming

In response to informational pressure of the Kremlin-supported media, the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT plans new programs for Russian-speakers in…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Polish foreign minister: We should promote Polish-speakers’ involvement in Lithuania’s statehood

Poland should make an effort to ensure the rights of Lithuanian Poles, but also promote their involvement in Lithuania's statehood,…

10 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Moscow is getting ready for a hybrid war with Lithuania. Is the Polish minority going to be the flashpoint?

Another series of Russian provocations involving the Baltic states, related to the Ukraine war, makes so-called hybrid war scenario more…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian prosecutors investigate suspected anti-constitutional activity on Facebook page

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has opened a pre-trial investigation into suspected crimes against Lithuania's independence, territorial integrity and Constitutional…

10 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Lithuanian-Polish tensions are gift to Putin’s Russia, Michnik says

Ethnic tension between Lithuania and Poland is a great gift to Vladimir Putin's Russia, says former Polish dissident Adam Michnik,…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian parliament to pick up ethnic minority bill in spring

The Ethnic Minority Law would help ensure rights for ethnic minorities in Lithuania, and the parliament should reopen the bill…

10 years ago
  • Society

Poll reveals divergent opinions on Ukraine crisis among Lithuania’s ethnic groups

Most people in Lithuania take a look at the news at least once a day, a survey shows. They use…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Lithuania’s Russian-speakers – what they’re for and what they’re against

Do Lithuania’s ethnic Russian citizens make integration into the society a priority or do they do quite the opposite, using…

10 years ago
  • Society

First Lithuanian citizen requests to indicate ethnicity in passport

On the first working day of 2015, the Migration Board of Vilnius County Police Headquarters received a request from a…

10 years ago
  • Politics

National Minorities Department will give more powers to communities, Lithuanian PM says

The Department of National Minorities, an envisioned structure within the Lithuanian government, will give more decision-making powers to ethnic minorities,…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Presidential adviser: Street signs must be in official Lithuanian language

According to Jovita Neliupšienė, Chief Advisor to the President on Foreign Policy, the fact that the court's decision on bilingual…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian authorities offer solution to issue of bilingual signs in Polish-speaking communities

The issue of bilingual street signs should finally be settled after years of clashes in eastern Lithuania with large Polish-speaking…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian government considers establishing ethnic minority department

The Lithuanian Government's Strategic Committee will consider establishing an Ethnic Minority Department that would replace the Ethnic Minority and Emigration…

10 years ago
  • Society

DELFI editor-in-chief: Our readers understand that Russia is not joking

Is it worth it to frighten the Lithuanian citizens with war? This question is not as simple as it seems,…

10 years ago
  • Society

Prosecutors investigate Lithuanian school students’ participation in Russian paramilitary camps

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has opened an investigation into suspected assistance to a foreign country to act against the…

10 years ago
  • Society

Court drops case after bilingual signs are removed in Vilnius District

Vilnius Regional Administrative Court has dropped an administrative case over putting up bilingual Lithuanian-Polish street signs in a number of…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lech Wałęsa’s wife: I wish to see bilingual signs in Lithuania

Danuta Wałęsa, the wife of Poland's former President Lech Wałęsa, says she wishes Poland and Lithuania communicated like a family…

10 years ago
  • Uncategorized

The Baltic states and Russian compatriots

Since Russian military incursions into Crimea and Eastern Ukraine to protect Russian “compatriots”, Latvia’s and Lithuania’s Russian and Russian-speaking populations…

10 years ago
  • Society

OSCE representative in Lithuania to investigate ethnic minority situation

Veronika Kristkova, a legal expert of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) office of the high commissioner…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian parliament votes down conservatives bill on ethnic minorities

Lithuania's parliament on Thursday voted down the version of the Ethnic Minority Law, proposed by the conservatives, which would have…

10 years ago