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		<title>Č. Juršėnas — Russians will not up with the current government for a long time</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/06/c-jursenas-%e2%80%94-russians-will-not-up-with-the-current-government-for-a-long-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mass protests in Russia on the parliamentary electoral fraud         shows that the         Russians will not reconcile with those at the         top of the government, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas Česlovas  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Vaclav Havel</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/28/remembering-vaclav-havel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vaclav Havel]]></category>

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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>Seimas aims to tie concept of family to marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/28/seimas-aims-to-tie-concept-of-family-to-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/28/seimas-aims-to-tie-concept-of-family-to-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2012 Parliamentary Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The market research company RAIT has conducted a poll on civil  partnership among 1003 Lithuanian inhabitants aged from 15 to 74. The  survey, commissioned by the Baltic News Service, was carried out in  November 2011, writes atviri.lt.
According to the survey, seven out of ten Lithuanians believe that  civil partnership status should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seimas considering Constitutional amendment tying family to marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/25/seimas-considering-constitutional-amendment-tying-family-to-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 21 December, the Seimas has approved the bill of amendment to the Constitution, according to which the family concept would be defined in terms of marriage, 15min.lt reports.
62 members of Seimas voted for the provision that “the family is created by a free marriage agreement between a man and woman”, whereas 8 disagreed 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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				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dalia Grybauskaitė]]></category>
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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>A constitution defining family in terms of marriage would make Lithuania exceptional in Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/23/family-tied-exclusively-with-marriage-in-the-constitution-would-make-lithuania-exceptional-in-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vytautas Mizaras, lawyer and professor at Vilnius University has said that if the constitution tied a family only by marriage, Lithuania would become an exception within Europe, 15min.lt wrote on 21 December.
According to the lawyer, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has never stated that family relations should appear only on the grounds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 10, 2011: What&#8217;s next? By Krickus</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/21/december-10-2011-whats-next-by-krickus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Dick Krickus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dick Krickus &#124; The Lithuania Tribune
Article published in russiaprofile.org on 15 December.


Historians will no doubt cite December 10, 2011 as a pivotal point in modern Russian history; that is the day when real politics began to appear in a society that has suffered under the jack-boot of autocracy for centuries. By now details pertaining to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R. Paksas would swap EP membership for a Minister‘s chair</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/17/r-paksas-would-swap-ep-membership-for-a-minister%e2%80%98s-chair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2012 Parliamentary Elections]]></category>
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If Parliament allows, Rolandas Paksas, who was removed from the presidency by impeachment, is determined to lead his party “Order and Justice” in the upcoming parliamentary elections. He will resign from European Parliament (EP) if he becomes a minister,  delfi.lt reported on 16 December.
On 15 December, Ministers have begun considering the amendments in the Law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moscow protest support campaign held near the Russian embassy in Vilnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/11/moscow-protest-support-campaign-held-near-the-russian-embassy-in-vilnius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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A small group of people carrying white flowers gathered near the Russian embassy in Vilnius to support thousands of protesters in Moscow and other Russian cities against an unfair parliamentary election. Both Lithuanian and Russian citizens supported the action, delfi.lt reported on 10 December.
A police unit was observing.
Participants were invited through social networking websites to join the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Partnership law proposal faces opposition</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/03/partnership-law-proposal-faces-opposition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two hens or two roosters cannot lay an egg. This idea was voiced on Wednesday (30/11/2011) at the Committee on Legal Affairs (CLA) of Seimas, where the draft Law on Partnership, drawn up by Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė, was discussed. The CLA decided that the proposal of the Member of Parliament, according to which partnerships could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel appreciates Lithuania’s position to Palestine’s UNESCO membership</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/02/israel-appreciates-lithuania%e2%80%99s-position-to-palestine%e2%80%99s-unosco-membership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel highly appreciates the Lithuanian position expressed during the vote to oppose Palestine&#8217;s membership in the UNESCO, Israel&#8217;s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said.
&#8220;We highly appreciate Lithuania&#8217;s position – it was a demonstration of its clear support to us and our close mutual relations. Unlike Switzerland or other countries, Lithuania fought and struggled for its independence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden&#8217;s State Secretary for International Development Commends EHU Students and Alumni</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/11/15/swedens-state-secretary-for-international-development-commends-ehu-students-and-alumni/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Eastern/Central Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vilnius, 15 November 2011 – Hanna Hellquist, State Secretary to Sweden’s Minister for International Development, called her meeting with European Humanities University (EHU) students and alumni &#8220;inspiring.&#8221; Visiting EHU&#8217;s campus in Vilnius with a delegation of Swedish officials and diplomats, Hellquist said she was fascinated to hear about EHU students&#8217; plans to use the opportunities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian activist Mikhail Kostyaev is seeking political asylum in Lithuania</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/11/08/russian-activist-mikhail-kostyaev-is-seeking-political-asylum-in-lithuania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia’s human rights defender, environment protection and public activist Michail Kostyaev is asking for a political asylum in Lithuania, reported 15min.lt on 4 November.
M. Kostyaev is accused of appropriating government funds, prosecution demanded a five year sentence for M. Kostyaev . Fearing for his safety, he did not attend the court hearing on 1 November [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belarus in Focus: Competition for European Journalists</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/10/28/belarus-in-focus-competition-for-european-journalists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/10/28/belarus-in-focus-competition-for-european-journalists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the 2010 presidential elections in Belarus, when over 700 people were arrested for participating in peaceful protests, including 7 presidential candidates, major social and economic changes have been ongoing.
Launched on September 5, 2011, Belarus in Focus is a competition for European journalists writing on Belarusian issues. It consists of two categories: for professional journalists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I.Degutienė urges to decide on the spelling of non-Lithuanian names in the passport</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/10/27/i-degutiene-urges-to-decide-on-the-spelling-of-non-lithuanian-names-in-the-passport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After meeting the speaker of the Seimas Irena Degutienė, on 21 October, representatives from the Lithuanian and Polish intellectuals’ forum consented to the spelling of non-Lithuanian names in Latin characters both in the first and the other pages of documents, as it is done in the neighbouring Latvia, delfi.lt reports. 
“This version would correspond to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A. M. Pavilioniene will be scolded but not punished for her proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/10/24/a-m-pavilioniene-will-be-scolded-but-not-punished-for-her-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The initiative by Member of Parliament Marija Ausrine Pavilioniene to legalize same-sex partnership is not only opposed by the ruling conservatives but also by her colleagues in the Social Democratic group, wrote delfi.lt on 18 October.
Algirdas Butkevicius, the chairman of Lithuania’s Social Democratic Party (LSDP) and the leader of the party in the Parliament, criticized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A proposal to ban same-sex partnership</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/10/24/a-proposal-to-ban-same-sex-partnership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mantas Varaška, member of the Seimas, proposes to ban same-sex partnership.
Such a proposal to the Draft Partnership Law and the Draft Amendment to Civil Code was registered by M. Varaška in the Secretariat of the Plenary Sittings of the Seimas, delfi.lt reported on 17 October.
“A person who has contracted a partnership which has not been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The need for angry feminists, by Rydström</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/10/08/the-need-for-angry-feminists-by-rydstrom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fredrik Rydström &#124; The Lithuania Tribune
In the 1960s, a tidal wave of ”sexual liberalism” overflowed Western Europe, and its social impact was to be felt in France, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden in particular. The vocal proponents of sexual liberalism, although admittedly accommodating an ideologically multifarious mass of people, voiced their opposition against the alleged intrusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EHU job offer to Communications Manager</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/10/05/ehu-job-offer-to-communications-manager/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background
The European Humanities University (EHU) is a private, non-profit liberal arts university founded in Minsk in 1992. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this academic year, EHU has been headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania since authorities expelled it from Belarus in 2004. It serves nearly 2,000 mostly Belarusian students, offering in-residence and low-residence undergraduate and graduate degree programs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential advisor: Lithuania is open for any kind of fresh information about possible CIA prisoners</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/10/05/president%e2%80%99s-advisor-lithuania-is-open-for-any-kind-of-fresh-information-about-possible-cia-prisoners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Lithuania is open for any kind of fresh information about the country’s possible participation in the CIA’s program of transportation and imprisonment of suspects of terrorism, advisor Dalia Grybauskaitė  claimed on 4 October, alfa.lt reports.
‘Regarding any information which could assist or provide data about the possible illegal transportation or possession of persons in our country, [...]]]></description>
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