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Ernest Alesin: “I want people not to be ashamed of their ethnicity”

June 22, 2021 Lithuania Tribune 0

On National Communities’ day, Media4Change talks to Ernest Alesin, the head of the Association of Lithuanian Media in the Languages of Ethnic Communities, which unites several media outlets in Polish, Russian and English, about the […]

Ažubalis compares Dobrovolska‘s plans to the Soviet Union: “It divides the country”

March 30, 2021 Lithuania Tribune 0

The Freedom Party, with its Minister Evelina Dobrovolska at the forefront, will present a project to the Seimas this spring, which could legalise bilingualism in certain regions of the country. The minister says that this […]

Parliament to discuss impact of ratified Istanbul convention

June 16, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s parliament will Friday discuss the effects of ratification of the Istanbul convention for the Baltic state. […]

Zapad 2013 Russian military 'lands' on the shores of Kaliningrad

Antanaitis: ‘The Russians will want to test us’

September 16, 2025 0

“First of all, these exercises are intended to demonstrate their power. The Russians are beginning to appear to the world and NATO as a weak link, a weak state. The Russians need to flex their […]

At the border – “Dragon Teeth,” above their heads – smuggling balloons: they told how Lithuania is preparing

September 8, 2025 0

With the joint Russian-Belarusian Zapad military exercises approaching, the Lithuanian army and border guards are preparing for all possible scenarios. It becomes clear when visiting towns in the Vilnius district near the border with Belarus, […]

The Russian language dilemma in Vilnius: which way forward?

August 25, 2025 0

Is there too much Russian spoken in Vilnius? Over the past year, many Vilnius residents have responded to this increasingly common question by saying that it is an indisputable fact, lrytas.lt writes in its editorial Laiko […]