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Poland's Education Vice-Minister Eva Dudek was briefed in Vilnius on Thursday on the performance of Polish-speaking students in the Lithuanian-language examination.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday will visit homes in St. Peter and St. Paul parish and together with Vilnius Archbishop Gintaras Grušas will meet with families from Iraq living there.
Among the 13 soldiers of the National Defence Volunteer Forces who gave oath to serve their country on 21 August, was Dainius Šileika, a third-generation Lithuanian expatriate.
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says English signs will be installed on buses crossing central Vilnius and servicing Vilnius International Airport, despite objections from the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language.
The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language has not backed a public transport initiative to install Lithuanian-English direction signs on buses crossing central Vilnius and servicing the airport.
Students of some of Polish-language schools in Lithuania skipped classes on Wednesday in protest of education provisions and went to a church service instead.
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that some politicians defame Lithuania by accusing it of alleged discrimination against the Polish community in the field of education.
The strike by teachers and pupils of ethnic minority schools is being fuelled by politicians of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), a party drawing its electorate from Lithuania's Polish-speaking population, the country's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says.
A group of citizens plan to propose to the country's parliament to adopt legal amendments allowing to write non-Lithuanian names of Lithuanian nationals on an additional passport page.
Vilnius City District Court on Thursday ordered Vilnius Registry Office to change the marriage certificate of a Lithuanian woman married to a Belgian and spell her name with a non-Lithuanian character "w".
Lithuania's Ministry of Education and Science has proposed some changes for curricula in ethnic minority schools.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has congratulated Lithuanian communities on the occasion of the World Lithuanians' Unity Day.
Christians are forced to flee Iraq fearing for their lives, Klara Lazar Banyameen Shamoon said in Vilnius. She has recently arrived in Lithuania together with 14 other Iraqi Christian refugees.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he still supports the proposal to allow the original spelling of non-Lithuanian names using the Latin alphabet after the Seimas of Lithuania postponed the issue until its autumn session later this week.
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius has no doubt that the original name spelling issue, postponed by the Seimas of Lithuania earlier in the day, will eventually be resolved. He adds that the issue is, first of all, important for the country's domestic, and not foreign policy.
Ninety-three foreigners will attend Lithuanian-language courses at five Lithuanian universities during July and August.
The Lithuanian ruling coalition's political council has backed plans to allow original name spelling in ID documents. The bill is due to be put on the parliament's agenda later this week.
The decision on the spelling of personal names in ID documents should be made by politicians, and they should not hide behind decisions made by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language, says Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius.
The Lithuanian Seimas' Legal Affairs Committee on Wednesday backed the use of Latin alphabet letters for the spelling of names and surnames of Lithuanian citizens in ID documents.
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 t...
