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		<title>Poland should be more sensitive towards Lithuania; European Voice</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/09/poland-should-be-more-sensitive-towards-lithuania-european-voice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poland should realise that it is a big country and should start acting like one.  It should be more sensitive towards Lithuania and be more delicate in treating the Northern neighbour, the Brussels-based newspaper European Voice says.
&#8220;Poles often fail to realize how big their country is relative to its northern, southern or eastern neighbours. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Note regarding simplified border crossing procedures is expected from Belarus</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/09/note-regarding-simplified-border-crossing-procedures-is-expected-from-belarus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/09/note-regarding-simplified-border-crossing-procedures-is-expected-from-belarus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=10527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania is actually ready for the simplified crossing procedure for the border with Belarus , however it is necessary to receive a note from Minsk, said Minister of Interior Raimundas Palaitis on 6 February, delfi.lt reports.
„We could send this note at any time, but we are waiting for a note from Belarus“, &#8211; Minister of Interior told journalists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ministers of Lithuania and Latvia have different attitudes towards Sweden‘s and Finland‘s involvement in air policing mission</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/09/ministers-of-lithuania-and-latvia-have-different-attitudes-towards-sweden%e2%80%98s-and-finland%e2%80%98s-involvement-in-air-policing-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian and Latvian Ministers of Defence differently evaluated the idea of involvement of non- Alliance members Sweden and Finland in NATO Baltic Air Policing mission, delfi.lt reported on 3 February.
Minister of National Defense Rasa Juknevičienė stated that partners‘ participation would be „very helpful“, however her counterpart Latvian Artis Pabriks emphasized that non-Alliance countries are not able to provide guarantees to NATO.
„This is NATO mission, and the main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATO further authorized the Baltic Air Policing mission</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/09/nato-further-authorized-the-baltic-air-policing-mission/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/09/nato-further-authorized-the-baltic-air-policing-mission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Defence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 8, the North Atlantic Council  adopted a decision to extend the Baltic Air Policing mission which had  been mandated till 2014, Ministry of Defence informs.
“We are very happy about this decision.  The mission is a great demonstration of the Alliance’s commitment to  security in the Baltic States. The decision is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania’s dilemmas integrating in the EU, by Ažubalis</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/08/lithuania%e2%80%99s-dilemmas-integrating-in-the-eu-by-azubalis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/08/lithuania%e2%80%99s-dilemmas-integrating-in-the-eu-by-azubalis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to today&#8217;s dilemma of integration in the European Union, we need to develop Lithuania&#8217;s position in accordance with national interests and real possibilities. This is to avoid extremes and to follow the principle of balance, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Audronius Ažubalis wrote in Veidas magazine on 30 January.
Subtract from Lithuanian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania&#8217;s choice: with Franco-Germany or the Nordic countries and Anglo-Saxons?</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/08/lithuanias-choice-with-franco-germany-or-the-nordic-countries-and-anglo-saxons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=10507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Facing a factual division of the European Union into continental eurozone, dominated by France and Germany and maritime non-eurozone, led by Great Britain with some indirect support from several Scandinavian and Middle European countries, Lithuania tries balancing dangerously on two chairs, veidas.lt wrote on 30 January.
Almost two months had to pass after the failure of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomorrow’s challenges in focus at the Northern Future Forum</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/08/tomorrow%e2%80%99s-challenges-in-focus-at-the-northern-future-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economic downturn has been at the top of the agenda at almost all  international meetings the last couple of years.  At these meetings we  tend to focus on the immediate economic challenges such as how to get to  grips with a debt-ridden banking sector or growing budget deficits.  There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chief of Defence of Lithuania participate in the Baltic-Nordic Chiefs of Defence meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/08/chief-of-defence-of-lithuania-participate-in-the-baltic-nordic-chiefs-of-defence-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maj. Gen. Arvydas Pocius]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 7, Chief of Defence of  Lithuania Lt Gen Arvydas Pocius departs for Stockholm (Sweden) where on  February 8 he will participate in the Nordic-Baltic Chiefs of Defence  meeting, Press Service of Ministry of Defence reports.
In the meetings Lithuanian, Danish,  Estonian, Latvian, Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish CHODs will discuss  security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EP members&#8217; status will change</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/08/ep-members-status-will-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/08/ep-members-status-will-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Internal Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=10489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The status of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) elected in Lithuania will be regulated by a new law, in which the provisions regarding salary from the state budget will be deleted, delfi.lt reported on 6 February.
In 2009, Board of the Seimas appointed a working group to prepare a new law regulating the status of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nationalists, Social Democratic Union and the centrists united to restore national policy</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/07/nationalists-social-democratic-union-and-the-centrists-united-to-restore-national-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2012 Parliamentary Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three small parties — Lithuanian Center Party, Lithuanian Social Democratic Union and Nationalist Union — are establishing the union &#8220;For Lithuania in Lithuania&#8221;. New formation proclaims that its goals are to stop Lithuania’s political, legal and social destruction and revive currently ignored national politicy, delfi.lt reported on 6 February.
This was announced on Monday at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll — Government’s work given 6 out of 10</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/07/poll-%e2%80%94-government%e2%80%99s-work-given-6-out-of-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=10480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most residents of major cities would give the Seimas 4 out of 10, while the Government would receive a mark of 6, shows a poll published on Monday in a weekly magazine Veidas, delfi.lt reported on 6 February.
The least amount of respondents have evaluated the Parliament and the Cabinet of Ministers with the highest marks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Lithuania truly just an outsider of the European Union? By Auštrevičius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/07/is-lithuania-truly-just-an-outsider-of-the-european-union-by-austrevicius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, some academics say that the desperation of our people is also being increased by the fact that during the recent 20 years we’ve become a godforsaken place somewhere in the East near Russia, in other words – probably the worst part of the EU. And we used to be the gem of a certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Government will present measures to prevent &#8220;monopolistic tendencies&#8221; in heat production</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/06/the-government-will-present-measures-to-prevent-monopolistic-tendencies-in-heat-production/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government will soon       put forward a package of measures to protect heat consumers from       monopolistic trends, said Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius on Monday, lrytas.lt reports.
According to the head       of the Government, the measures to protect  the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President congratulates Queen Elizabeth II on 60th anniversary of her reign</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, February 6, Vilnius &#8211; President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to Her Majesty  Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on the 60th anniversary of her  accession to the throne, Press Service of the President informs.
&#8220;On  behalf of all the people of Lithuania and on my own behalf, I extend  our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UEF in Lithuania – a new approach to government and politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greta Armonaitytė &#124; The Lithuania Tribune
On the 3 February the Union of European Federalists in Lithuania held an inaugural meeting and discussion &#8220;Lithuania in Europe: between the core and the periphery&#8221;, involving the founders of the movement Petras Auštrevičius, Rokas Grajauskas, Gediminas Vitkus, Vaida Česnulevičiūtė, and special guest Andrew Duff, the President of the UEF. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. And Russia’s Elections, by Krickus</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/06/the-u-s-and-russia%e2%80%99s-elections-by-krickus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dick Krickus &#124; The Lithuania Tribune
Article published in russiaprofile.org on 3 February.

“How serious is the ‘U.S. factor’ in influencing Russian voters’ preferences?” This question is being asked against the backdrop of Michael McFaul’s appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Russia. Hard-liners claim that this former Stanford professor and author of a provocative book—Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The President — Lithuania will follow fiscal discipline and responsibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė forecasts that Lithuania will only accede to some of the provisions of the Fiscal Compact Treaty, but will follow the key objectives of the treaty, 15min.lt on 30 January.
 
„The main points have been discussed. The majority of states are likely to approve them. Of course, the United Kingdom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unique Soviet Crimes, by Girnius</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historical disputes are currently unceasing, neither abroad nor in Lithuania. A week ago, the French Senate adopted a law on criminal liability for negating the Armenian genocide. Turkey strongly condemned the decision taken by France, calling it irresponsible and disrespectful, and it threatened to take reciprocal measures, Kęstutis Girnius wrote in alfa.lt on 30 January.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who donated the most?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) data, the companies owned by the Achema Group and Arvi group of companies donated the most to political parties last year, delfi.lt reported on 21 January.
On the basis of analysis conducted by the CEC, three Achema Group companies transferred 414 thousand LTL to eight parties. Two companies from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snoras commission will be headed by V.Mazuronis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 12-person       parliamentary commission for Snoras&#8217; story investigation       was confirmed by Seimas after a       long discussion. It will present the conclusions by June 1. The       fight broke out    [...]]]></description>
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