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		<title>The Rzeczpospolita is misleading: Warsaw, not Vilnius, is adulating Russia, by Laučius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/30/the-rzeczpospolita-is-misleading-warsaw-not-vilnius-is-adulating-russia-by-laucius/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/30/the-rzeczpospolita-is-misleading-warsaw-not-vilnius-is-adulating-russia-by-laucius/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Eastern/Central Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vladimiras Laucius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalia Grybauskaitė]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithuanian-Polish relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita published an article encouraging the restoration of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, I say it would be worth considering, despite the fact that it would anger the plentiful ranks of polonophobes. If an article reproaching Lithuania with the dislike of Russia was printed, it would be understandable: the Moscow–Warsaw relations are almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polish broke the agreement &#8211; Lithuanians lost important position in Sejny</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/29/polish-broke-the-agreement-lithuanians-lost-important-position-in-sejny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 26 January, Lithuanians in Poland expressed their outrage at the loss of county&#8217;s deputy chief position in Sejny County, inhabited by a sizeable Lithuanian minority, alfa.lt reports.
According to Sejny Lithuanians, removal of Romualdas Vitkauskas is a violation of an informal agreement, that has been valid since county&#8217;s establishment in 1999, to appoint a person [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than 1,000 of Lithuanian citizens get Karta Polaka annually</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/21/more-than-1000-of-lithuanian-citizens-get-karta-polaka-annually/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/21/more-than-1000-of-lithuanian-citizens-get-karta-polaka-annually/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year more than 1,000 Lithuanian citizens of Polish origin receive the Karta Polaka, which has been criticized by the Lithuanian government, 15min.lt reported on 17 January.
The Polish embassy in Vilnius told the BNS that these documents were issued to 1,024 Lithuanian citizens in 2011. 1,197 cards were issued in 2010. Over 4,000 of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking will travel regularly, more cargo is expected</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/21/viking-will-travel-regularly-more-cargo-is-expected/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/21/viking-will-travel-regularly-more-cargo-is-expected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business and Policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Viking" train line]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From now on the Viking train will travel from Ukraine to Lithuania twice weekly: on Mondays and Thursdays, 15min.lt wrote on 19 January.
Lithuanian Railways expects that a clear timetable will not only encourage the transport of more cargo to Lithuania, but also an increase in shipping to Ukraine.
“Regularity will encourage shipments, we will receive more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Voice: A.Ažubalis is partly responsible for poor relations with Poland and Latvia</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/20/european-voice-a-azubalis-is-partly-responsible-for-poor-relations-with-poland-and-latvia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/20/european-voice-a-azubalis-is-partly-responsible-for-poor-relations-with-poland-and-latvia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Audronius Azubalis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Brussels’s newspaper European Voice, Audronius Ažubalis, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, should be partly responsible for the problems between Lithuania and Poland, lrytas.lt wrote on 19 January.
“A.Ažubalis, who is now serving the second term of office, cannot be blamed for all foreign problems of Lithuania. Having such neighbours as Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>V. Landsbergis encourages his fellow party memembers to a legal assessment of Karta Polaka</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/18/v-landsbergis-encourages-his-fellow-party-memembers-to-a-legal-assessment-of-karta-polaka/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/18/v-landsbergis-encourages-his-fellow-party-memembers-to-a-legal-assessment-of-karta-polaka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEP Vytautas Landsbergis encouraged other members of his party to aim for the legal assessment of the so-called Karta Polaka, which is being distributed by the Polish government among Lithuanian citizens of Polish descent, 15min.lt reported on 15 January.
During the council meeting of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, V. Landsbergis said the Constitutional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Lithuanian foreign policy to its closest neighbours, by Laurinavičius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/11/on-lithuanian-foreign-policy-to-its-closest-neighbours-by-laurinavicius/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/11/on-lithuanian-foreign-policy-to-its-closest-neighbours-by-laurinavicius/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marius Laurinavicius]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good relations with neighbours have always been one of the most important goals in foreign policy, as publicly declared by Lithuania. It seems, however, that in 2012 these relations will also be, like never before, the greatest diplomatic challenge for our country. Of course, everybody’s eyes are primarily turning towards the relations with Poland – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paths and sideways of foreign policy, by Beržiūnas</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/08/paths-and-sideways-of-foreign-policy-by-berziunas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/08/paths-and-sideways-of-foreign-policy-by-berziunas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding Lithuania&#8217;s foreign policy, the year 2011 were neither touching nor happy. Rather dreary and grey, Valentinas Beržiūnas wrote in diena.lt on 29 December.
To begin with &#8211; Lithuanian neighbours. Belarus. It seemed that Lithuanian foreign policy planners have developed a political dialogue without any preconditions with our neighbours; however, everything remained just a talk. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Česlovas Juršėnas – Poles want to teach us, but they do not talk about the situation of Lithuanian education in Poland</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/05/ceslovas-jursenas-%e2%80%93-poles-want-to-teach-us-but-they-do-not-talk-about-the-situation-of-lithuanian-education-in-poland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Poles want to teach Lithuanians, however, they do not talk about the situation of Lithuanian education in Poland,&#8221; — says Česlovas Juršėnas, Deputy Chairman of the Lithuanian Parliament, when assessing the bilateral relations.
&#8220;The essence of the matter, in my opinion, is that our Polish friends want to teach us and demand of us those things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maxima group to buy Polish retail chain Aldik Nova</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/29/maxima-group-to-buy-polish-retail-chain-aldik-nova/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian retail chain Maxima received permission to start its expansion into Poland’s retail market.  The Baltic giant , who already operates some 459 retail supermarkets in the Baltic States and Bulgaria has received approval from Poland&#8217;s anti-monopoly watchdog, the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, (UOKiK) for takeover of the Polish supermarket chain Aldik Nova, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Vaclav Havel</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/28/remembering-vaclav-havel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/28/remembering-vaclav-havel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, Václav Havel (75) died. A hippy, a poet, a dramatist, a fan of jazz, a man of the bohemia, and a president, who could welcome the Rolling Stones wearing jeans. Without exaggeration, this loss made Middle and East Europe a colder place. And more vulnerable to the winds from the East, writes lrytas.lt.
Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poland should show wisdom and respect to Lithuania – PM Kubilius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/27/poland-should-show-wisdom-and-respect-to-lithuania-%e2%80%93-pm-kubilius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relationship between Lithuania and Poland will improve in the future, but Poland must show some wisdom since relations with neighbours should be based on rationality and mutual respect the Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said in an interview.
&#8220;We are always ready to look for plenty of opportunities to strengthen, improve relations between our states and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vaclav Havel’s idealism has changed Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/24/vaclav-havel%e2%80%99s-idealism-has-changed-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/24/vaclav-havel%e2%80%99s-idealism-has-changed-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, December 23, Prague -  President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended at St. Vitus Cathedral the State  Funeral of the fighter for freedom and former President of the Czech  Republic, Vaclav Havel, Press Service of the President reports.
According  to the President, Vaclav Havel was a great European figure whose  courage, moral values [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hitachi – Poland never took Visaginas’ project seriously</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that Poland suspended its participation in the Visaginas’ Nuclear Power Plant project will have no impact on the further course of the project: strategic Japanese investor Hitachi determined to continue participating fully in the project, delfi.lt wrote on 13 December.
“The fact that Poland stopped its participation does not diminish the significance of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Neighbours – Four Foes? By Girnius</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania shares a border with four countries. For various reasons, Lithuania’s relations with all of its neighbours have deteriorated this year, Kęstutis Girnius wrote in alfa.lt on 19 December.
We cannot choose our neighbours. We have the ones that were determined historically and geographically. Fate was not particularly favourable to Lithuania. Russia and present-day Belarus are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A. Sekmokas – PGE manager did not coordinate the decision concerning NP with Polish government</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/18/a-selmokas-%e2%80%93-pge-manager-did-not-coordinate-the-decision-concerning-np-with-polish-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minister of Energy, Arvydas Sekmokas, has made claims that the former Chairman of the Board of Polish energy company Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), did not coordinate the company’s withdrawal from the Visaginas nuclear power plant project with the Polish government, and as a result, has left the company, delfi.lt reported on 15 December.
The issue was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President – Poland’s withdrawal from NPP project should make running of the plant easier</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/16/president-%e2%80%93-poland%e2%80%99s-withdrawal-will-make-the-power-plant-running-easier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Dalia Grybauskaitė did not emphasise Poland’s decision to end its participation in the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project as a crucial turning point in the development of the plant. The President added that the fewer participants involved, the easier it would be to run the project, 15min.lt reported on 14 December.
“Currently, the plant is due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poland is moralising again, by Girnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/15/poland-is-moralising-again-by-girnius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a few months break, Poland has again started moralising Lithuania, and increasing the pressure regarding the changes to the Law on Education. Wrong were those who thought that the avalanche of criticism towards Lithuania was merely a result of the election campaign. The roots of the contention and misunderstandings are obviously deeper and more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R. Lopata: Poland stops participation in Visaginas NP project due to declining bilateral relations</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/14/r-lopata-poland-stops-participation-in-visaginas-np-project-due-to-declining-bilateral-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Polish side has declared that it is stopping participation in the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project, argues political scientist Raimundas Lopata, as a result of declining bilateral relations: In Smolensk died the Polish political elite that was favorable to our country, and the new Polish leaders simply do not see reasonable prospects of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ažubalis – Bilateral relations and Poland’s withdrawal from Visaginas project not related</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 9 December, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Audronius Ažubalis, urged people to stop searching for a link between Poland’s decision to end its participation in the Visaginas nuclear power plant project, and the state of bilateral relations, writes 15min.lt.
Ažubalis added that the new nuclear power plant project would be based on firm logical grounds.
“Money has [...]]]></description>
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