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Lithuanian MPs have submitted a bill on reinstating citizenship for Jews who left Lithuania between the two world wars and their descendants.

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Seimas drafts amendments on restoring Lithuanian citizenship to Litvaks
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Litvaks, as Jews of Lithuanian descent are known, have complained that the country's Migration Department has been rejecting their applications.

Under the bill, Lithuania should reintroduce the practice of 2011-2015 when persons who emigrated from Lithuania between June 15, 1940, and March

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