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		<title>Lithuanian Films at EFM in Berlinale: The Gold Age Era</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/08/lithuanian-films-at-efm-in-berlinale-the-gold-age-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leisure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arunas Gelunas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Film Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A modern national Lithuanian Films stand, representing all the factors that led to the substantial recovery of the country‘s film industry, will be giving a warm welcome to the world‘s film industry visiting Berlin at the European Film Market (EFM) Thursday this week already.
Lithuania‘s Minister of Culture Arunas Gelunas, who is also a strong supporter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baltic countries to purchase medications jointly</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/08/the-baltic-countries-to-purchase-medications-jointly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighbours]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until the end of April, Baltic countries are planning to sign an agreement to jointly buy state financed drugs, delfi.lt reported on 6 January.
“The treaty is still in the preparatory stage. The period for this treaty to b confirmed is from the beginning of March until 1 April”, – the advisor for the Minister 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>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithuanian Centre Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithuanian Nationalist Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Democrats]]></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>UEF in Lithuania – a new approach to government and politics</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/06/uef-in-lithuania-%e2%80%93-a-new-approach-to-government-and-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Duff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gediminas Vitkus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petras Auštrevičius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rokas Grajauskas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Union of European Federalists (UEF) Lithuania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaida Česnulevičiūtė]]></category>

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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>Silent indoctrination: Russian artists&#8217; visits</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/06/silent-indoctrination-russian-artists-visits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leisure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighbours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vilius Ivanauskas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soviet nostalgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soviet Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Approaching the anniversary of the13th of January strange trend was found by few commentators in the public area &#8211; the regular concerts during Lithuanian public holidays, where ultra-patriotic minded Russian artists are invited who express their position and perform controversial songs.
On the13th of January this year conductor Valeryj Gergiev is coming to Kaunas for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuanian emigrants invite the President of USA B. Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/04/lithuanian-emigrants-invite-the-president-of-usa-b-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithuanian Diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian emigrants’ community has invited President of the USA Barack Obama and his wife Michelle to North America Lithuanians’ folk dances celebration, delfi.lt reported on 1 February.
As a daily Lietuvos Rytas writes, the invitation has been sent not only in writing. On 30 January, during B. Obama’s annual meeting with residing diplomats, Lithuanian ambassador Žygimantas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unique Soviet Crimes, by Girnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/03/unique-soviet-crimes-by-girnius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighbours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adolph Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Stalin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nazi Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nazi occupation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soviet occupation]]></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>The number of returned Lithuanian emigrants increased three times</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/03/the-number-of-returned-lithuanian-emigrants-increased-three-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emigration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reemigration of Lithuanians       has recently intensified. About 14 thousand  Lithuanians       — about three times more than in       2010 — returned to Lithuania in 2011, 15min.lt reported on 1 February.
According to       [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lithuanian is facing charges of operating a bogus scheme by collecting clothes for major charities in Highlands</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/02/a-lithuanian-is-facing-charges-of-operating-a-bogus-scheme-by-collecting-clothes-for-major-charities-in-highlands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithuanian Diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miglius Orieska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reported by Noel Donaldson

A Lithuanian man is facing charges of operating a bogus scheme by collecting clothes for major charities in the Highlands of Scotland which had given him no authorisation.
Miglius Orieska, pleaded not guilty through an interpreter, when he appeared from custody at Wick Sheriff Court, today.

 
The charges allege that he claimed to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Lithuanian schools Russian language is more attractive than German or French</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/02/in-lithuanian-schools-russian-language-is-more-attractive-than-german-or-french/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Lithuania, like in all European Union, the most students choose English as the first foreign language. However, only in Baltic countries the most popular second foreign language is Russian — elsewhere in Europe the choice is after German or French languages, veidas.lt wrote on 30 January.
In 2009, in the primary learning phase Russian language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuanian fined for anti-gay comment on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/01/lithuanian-fined-for-anti-gay-comment-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minorities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lithuanian Gay League]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[37-year-old man from Vilnius has been ordered in court to pay a fine of  450 euros (1560 Lithuanian litas) for a comment he posted under an  article on Facebook about the world-famous singer Lady Gaga’s criticism  of the Lithuanian Government, atviri.lt informs.
According to Delfi.lt,  the First District Court of Vilnius City [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maternity vacation conditions are different amongst Baltic countries</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/31/maternity-vacation-conditions-are-different-amongst-baltic-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighbours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[maternity benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maternity leave]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The longest maternity vacation belongs to Estonia – 140 days,  in Latvia – 122 days and in Lithuania – 126 days. Right now maternity  vacations in all three Baltic countries are paid for evenly, but there  are some differences, bnn-news.com wrote on 30 January.
The difference – is in the necessary work experience. [...]]]></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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				<category><![CDATA[Eastern/Central Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minorities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lithuanian minority in Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithuanian-Polish relations]]></category>
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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>60 percent of inhabitants think that Lithuania needs LNG terminal</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/29/60-percent-of-inhabitants-think-that-lithuania-needs-lng-terminal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public opinion poll, conducted in more than 17 towns and 56 villages in January, has shown that people support Lithuania’s objective to build the liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal, 15min.lt reported on 26 January.
The survey&#8217;s results have shown that the majority of Lithuania&#8217;s residents &#8211; 60 per cent &#8211; agreed with the necessity of LNG [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People wish to lend to the Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 24 January, the Bank of Lithuania began issuing two Government Treasury notes at a time. This investment type has now reached its peak; sales of the notes have increased tenfold, compared to the results before the middle of December 2011, delfi.lt wrote on 26 January.
Investors who purchased these notes paid 9.48 million LTL for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuanians spend considerably more than they earn</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/28/lithuanians-spend-considerably-more-than-they-earn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Swedbank, last year Lithuanians spent a lot more money than they earned. About 8-9 billion litas of unofficial earnings were spent, 15min.lt wrote on 24 January.
Despite economic crisis in the eurozone, Lithuania`s economy will keep growing this year. Swedbank`s economists predict the country&#8217;s GDP to grow by 3 percent (the fastest growth in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baltic Tigers after 20 years: is Russia extending a helping hand? By Iškauskas</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/28/the-baltic-tigers-after-20-years-is-russia-extending-a-helping-hand-by-iskauskas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the New Year eve the Russian media started  escalating the issue of Baltic countries’ future and their place in the  region. The forecasts concerning future of the three Baltic States are  far from promising. Yet most importantly, the efforts are made to  withdraw Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia from the general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P.Gylys has been elected chairman of Non-party Democratic Movement</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/23/p-gylys-has-been-elected-chairman-of-non-party-democratic-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of Non-party Democratic Movement (NDM) gathered to its Second         Congress and approved the program, revised the charter of the         organization and formed a         new leadership on Saturday (21 January) in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study on Latvian and Lithuanian relations: A new vision of bilateral relations</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/22/study-on-latvian-and-lithuanian-relations-a-new-vision-of-bilateral-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greta Armonaitytė &#124; The Lithuania Tribune
On the 20 January the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Latvian Embassy held a discussion on a report about Lithuanian-Latvian co-operation perspectives’ study. The research was presented by its authors, Neris Germanas, the Lithuanian ambassador to Latvia and Alberts Sarkanis, the Latvian ambassador to Lithuania. Initially, the research was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A national bilingualism scenario is also possible in Lithuania</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/22/a-national-bilingualism-scenario-is-also-possible-in-lithuania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The neighbouring Latvia, where the only national language now is Latvian, is holding a referendum next month: its citizens will be asked whether Russian should be recognised as the second national language. In Latvia, which has 2.2 million residents, Russian is native to more than a third, writes Rasa Prascevičienė in an article published by [...]]]></description>
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