Polish minority

  • Society

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

On National Communities' day, Media4Change talks to Ernest Alesin, the head of the Association of Lithuanian Media in the Languages…

3 years ago
  • Latest

A countermeasure for one of Lithuania’s regions against Russian propaganda evaluated

After noting the slower pace of vaccination in East and South-East Lithuania, talks resurfaced of establishing a special TV broadcaster…

4 years ago
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A change in perception of Lithuanian-Polish relations at the May 3 Constitution commemoration

While watching the 230 anniversary of the May 3 Constitution at the Lithuanian and Polish parliaments, it was indeed uncomfortable…

4 years ago
  • Politics

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

The Freedom Party, with its Minister Evelina Dobrovolska at the forefront, will present a project to the Seimas this spring,…

4 years ago
  • Politics

Unfulfilled electoral promises of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania: turning away from the ethnic minorities

The defenders of ethnic minorities in Seimas – the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Union (LLRA-KŠS)…

4 years ago
  • Politics

Polish-Lithuanian signatory asserts – no discrimination to be seen

“Claiming that this was a sort of oppression of ethnicity, belittling and criticising over ethnicity – that’s incorrect,” signatory and…

5 years ago
  • Lithuania

Unsolved for decades, the question of surname spelling is stuck in Seimas

The decades-long debate over the spelling of names and surnames in identification documents in Latin letters seems to have no…

5 years ago
  • Politics

Whom the Polish party in Lithuania actually represent?

Political scientists and analysts praise the Polish ethnic minority as the most civic-minded electorate. Representatives of the Electoral Action of…

5 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuania and Poland’s brotherhood – the bitterness of slights replaced by hopes of friendship

The relations of Lithuania and Poland are like those of friends turned enemies and once more back to friends. The…

5 years ago
  • Central/Eastern Europe
  • Foreign affairs

Polish ForMin urges Lithuania to scrap election threshold for ethnic minorities – Interview

Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz has called on Lithuania to amend its legislation so that ethnic minority parties do not…

6 years ago
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  • Opinion

Who could have predicted – everyone is pursuing the Polish Electoral Action

If two years ago someone had said that the Polish Electoral Action in Lithuania – Christian Families Union (LLRA-KŠS) would…

7 years ago
  • Politics

Polish Sejm marshal asks Lithuanian MPs to back bill on original name-spelling

Marek Kuchcinski, the Marshal of the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, on Tuesday called on Lithuanian lawmakers…

7 years ago
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  • Opinion

Three letters and a solution to five problems

It looks like the current Seimas majority are seriously considering a debate on the problem of the three letters, i.e.…

8 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian language watchdog didn’t assess possibility of original name spelling by Poles

The Lithuanian language watchdog did not assess certain legal provisions, currently under debate in the Seimas, that would pave the…

8 years ago
  • Politics
  • Society

Poles in Lithuania won’t be discriminated against over names, PM Skvernelis tells PM Szydło

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis told his Polish counterpart, Beata Szydło, on Monday that national minorities in Lithuania would not…

8 years ago
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  • Opinion

On attempts to dismantl Tomaszewski‘s monopoly on ethnic minorities

A part of members of Seimas are considering the possibility to reduce the vote requirement for parties based on ethnic…

8 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuania, Poland destined to cooperate – Walesa

Lithuania and Poland are destined to cooperate, says Poland's former president Lech Walesa, the leader of the Solidarity movement and…

8 years ago
  • Defence

President glad national minorities join army, riflemen

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has applauded the response of the country's citizens of Russian and Polish nationality to growing external…

8 years ago
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  • Opinion

Southeast Lithuania’s road to Lithuania

A survey of Southeast Lithuanian gymnasium students performed by the Lithuanian Institute of Cultural Policy (LKPI) revealed that 66% of…

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

Ažubalis. Will Lithuanian-Polish relations step out of the deadlock?

Both nations – the Lithuanians and the Polish – both recall well how our mutual conflict in between the two…

8 years ago