Russia‘s aggression in Ukraine has exposed Lithuania’s sloppiness in dealing with its own ethnic minorities. Research shows that, amidst media craze about the war in Ukraine, Lithuania’s Russian-speaking citizens get increasingly often depicted as a domestic risk, while their alleged disloyalty to the state is pinpointed as threat to Lithuania’s national security and territorial integrity. […]
The Ethnic Minority Law would help ensure rights for ethnic minorities in Lithuania, and the parliament should reopen the bill in its spring session, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
Lithuania’s parliament on Thursday voted down the version of the Ethnic Minority Law, proposed by the conservatives, which would have banned bilingual street and location signs. […]
The Russian government’s statements about the allegedly bad situation of Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltic states are alarming, says Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė. She also thinks that some local politicians exaggerate problems of Lithuania’s ethnic minorities to make them appear worse than they actually are. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė came to Šalčininkai, a town where Polish-speakers make up nearly three quarters of the population, to take part in a harvest festival held on Sunday. Claiming she did not want to start any political discussions on ethnic minority issues, the president said that she equally loved all people of Lithuania. […]
Members of the political group of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) have registered a new ethnic minority bill, which would allow broad official use of the minority language and bilingual signs, as well as put the state under the obligation to provide financial support to ethnic minorities. […]
All ethnic minorities should agree on the National Minority Law, says Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė, making it clear that the adoption of the law initiated by the former ruling party Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) is not envisaged in the agenda of parliament’s fall session. […]
If the task force set up by the prime minister fails to find a compromise on the draft National Minority Law prepared by the Culture Ministry, Lithuanian Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis says its fate will depend on discussions on the line-up of the ruling coalition and the participation of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party in the bloc. […]
The historic roots of the current 3200-member Tatar community in Lithuania date back to the 14th century, when the rulers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania fostered trade with the Mongols’ powerful Golden Horde. The ensuing ages have swept away the Duchy and Horde, but for a tiny group of the merchants’ descendants Lithuania has become their Motherland. To find out more about the ethnical minority, the Lithuania Tribune spoke to Marija Meišutovič, the chairman of Lithuania’s Tatar Youth Community “Duslyk”. […]
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