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	<title>The Lithuania Tribune &#187; 11 March</title>
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		<title>Conservatives after the Nationalists’ Withdrawal, by Girnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/07/03/conservatives-after-the-nationalists%e2%80%99-withdrawal-by-girnius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the conference, which took place on the Sunday before last, the Nationalists (Tautininkai) decided to withdraw from the governing Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party (HU-LCD) and they announced their intention to re-establish a separate party. However, it was not a unanimous decision: 55 delegates voted to withdraw from the HU-LCD, 17 voted against, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radicals, go forth to Jerusalem! by A. Brazauskas</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/30/radicals-go-forth-to-jerusalem-by-a-brazauskas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read a comment written by Arunas Brazauskas, Editor-in-Chief of Balsas.lt savaitė magazine.  The comment was read on the Public Radio by the author twice and is published on the Public Broadcaster’s web site on 25 March.  No comment&#8230;
The hysteria set off by the patriotic march of 11 March has all washed away along the surface. Caught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Stolen Holiday, by G. Aleknonis</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/25/a-stolen-holiday-by-g-aleknonis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Gintaras Aleknonis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, there has been a major threat to the Lithuanian national holiday, which is celebrated on 11 March, in which it will soon be appropriated by Europe. In addition, we should neither be rejoicing, nor taking pride in the fact that we, purportedly, have been given the permission to also render a memorable day to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regarding the condemnation of the march of extreme right and the spread of hatred in public</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/17/regarding-the-condemnation-of-the-march-of-extreme-right-and-the-spread-of-hatred-in-public/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 11 March, 2011 (on the Day of Restoration of Lithuania’s Independence) the extreme right and neo-Nazi skinheads marched down the main street of Vilnius, Gediminas avenue, hailing racists and xenophobic slogans such as “Lithuania for Lithuanians”, “For Lithuania, the nation and the race”, “We are white brothers” and other. The participants of the march [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish community complains over neo-Nazi march</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/15/jewish-community-complains-over-neo-nazi-march/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/15/jewish-community-complains-over-neo-nazi-march/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Jewish Lithuania]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an official letter to the Vilnius municipality, the Lithuanian Jewish Community has complained that they knew ahead of time that the march permitted on March 11 would feature Nazi slogans.
&#8220;The Lithuanian Jewish Community is concerned about the Vilnius City Council&#8217;s decision to grant permission for the demonstration with banners and symbolism that is contrary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuanians were not sufficiently afraid of USSR, Swedish diplomat</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/14/lithuanians-were-not-sufficiently-afraid-of-ussr-swedish-diplomat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/14/lithuanians-were-not-sufficiently-afraid-of-ussr-swedish-diplomat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=5833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People in Lithuania seemed as if they were obsessed, fanatical, care free and not sufficiently affraid, Lars Freden the current Swedish Ambassador to China says in an interview about his time in Lithuania when he was the Swedish Consul for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 1989 and 1992.  See the interview in English conducted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The story of Lithuanian independence, 21 years on</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/11/the-story-of-lithuanian-independence-21-years-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/11/the-story-of-lithuanian-independence-21-years-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=5814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Twenty one years ago Lithuania regained its independence by electing a parliament in a democratic way, which announced the re-establishment of the state.
On this day, the highest government of the time, the Supreme Council, started implementing the sovereignty of the state.
History professor Edvardas Gudavicius once stated that &#8220;March 11 became the ground for a chain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gorbachev calls allegations that he bargained for Lithuania&#8217;s independence not serious</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/02/24/gorbachev-calls-allegations-that-he-bargained-for-lithuanias-independence-not-serious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev called recent media claims that he asked some 21 bln Roubles and Klaipeda port city for Lithuania’s Independence in 1990 as not serious, as a Swedish diplomatic telegram claims.
&#8220;This is not serious. This is an extremely free interpretation of the events that took place when Lithuania decided to secede from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Balts are welcome to Iceland – ForMin</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/02/12/the-balts-are-welcome-to-iceland-%e2%80%93-formin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iceland&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson said that his nation is proud that they were the first western country to recognise Lithuania’s regained independence 20 years ago.  The Minster, who is now on a official visit in Lithuania to mark this occasion, also spoke favourably about the Baltic immigrants in Iceland.
&#8220;People from the Baltic are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania will never forget Iceland’s support</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/02/12/lithuania-will-never-forget-iceland%e2%80%99s-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė received Iceland&#8217;s Minster for Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Össur Skarphéðinsson, the Presidential Palace reported.
The President thanked the Minister for the support demonstrated by Iceland and its people in 1991. Iceland was the first foreign country to recognize officially the restored independence of the Republic of Lithuania [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extravagant Lithuania’s Foreign Policy &#8211; Monika Garbačiauskaitė</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/04/09/extravagant-lithuania%e2%80%99s-foreign-policy-by-monika-garbaciauskaite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vague blueprints of the Lithuanian foreign policy of recent years have become clearer and have turned into incoherent extremes. At least that is an impression that one gets watching it from the outside. There are no explanations; therefore, one has to come up with its own conclusions.
Since the beginning of her term in office, President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norwegian Ambassador waiting for Lithuanians’ reaction to 11 March rally</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/03/21/norwegian-ambassador-waiting-for-lithuanians%e2%80%99-reaction-to-11-march-rally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Norwegian Ambassador to Lithuania Steinar Gil expressed his disappointment about lack of reactions from the Lithuanian political elite regarding nationalistic youth rally on 11 March in Vilnius.  More than 500 nationalistic youth marched from the St. Ann’s church to former the Vilnius Sports palace.
The Ambassador expressed his disappointment during a seminar “European and Lithuanian Values: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lesson of tolerance for Lithuania</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/03/21/a-lesson-of-tolerance-for-lithuania/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/03/21/a-lesson-of-tolerance-for-lithuania/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Lithuanians have a serious tolerance lesson to learn, the participants of the discussion &#8220;European and Lithuanian Values: Identical or Different?” in Seimas agreed on Friday.
The lack of tolerance and the values of Lithuanians and Europeans were discussed in the panel, organised by the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania, the Human Rights Monitoring Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What did Lithuania achieve during 20 years of Independence? Kestutis Girnius</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no unanimous answer to this question. The optimists like the Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, claim that during those 20 years the achievements were bigger than during any other 20 years of the millennium of Lithuania&#8217;s existence. The kasandras of today, like the PR specialist Rūta Vanagaitė claim that there&#8217;re almost no achievements &#8211; that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saakashvili snubbed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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His bags were packed and he was waiting by the phone, but in the end Georgian head of state Mikheil Saakashvili never got a call from the Lithuanian president for the country&#8217;s 20th anniversary of independence.
The presidents of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine were all invited by the President Dalia Grybauskaite, but Saakashvili, who is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sajudis: the cradle of Lithuanian independence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago Lithuania became independent – the parliament, elected in a democratic way, announced the re-establishing of an independent state. The highest government, the Supreme Council, started implementing the sovereignty of the state.
History professor Edvardas Gudavicius once stated that &#8220;March 11 became the ground for a chain reaction, which destroyed the Soviet Union.”
The &#8220;Lietuvos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania’s second republic turns twenty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year Lithuania celebrated one thousand years since it was mentioned for the first time.  Today it celebrates its twentieth birthday.  During the past thousand years Lithuania managed to create its statehood in medieval times, then lose it again and again.  Throughout the thousand years it was a struggle to keep it going, to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swedish Minister for the EU will take part in the Baltic Pride in Vilnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/03/04/swedish-minister-for-the-eu-will-take-part-in-the-baltic-pride-in-vilnius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweden&#8217;s Minister for European Union Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson is planning to participate in the Baltic Pride parade in Vilnius on May 8.   The Minister announced this to the journalists during her visit to Vilnius on 4 March.  The Minister also stated that she will also participate in the 11 March celebrations in Vilnius.  The newly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dainius Žalimas. „Mistral“: Dreams about Russia and Solidarity in the French Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, Russia pulled out her armed forces from South Ossetia and Abkhazia and terminated the occupation of these Georgian territories, it is not going to create plans in case of crisis to block the ships of NATO countries and the provision of backup in the Baltic Sea, it has investigated all the violations of human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuanian President will meet PM Putin in Finland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania&#8217;s President Dalia Grybauskaite announced on 5 February that she is going to meet the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Finland next week.
According to her, the initiative for the meeting came from Kremlin.  Grybauskaite said to the reporters today, &#8220;At Putin&#8217;s request, we agreed to such meeting.&#8221;  The Lithuanian president and the Russian Prime [...]]]></description>
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