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	<title>The Lithuania Tribune &#187; Belarus</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<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>China’s geopolitical phenomena or when we could expect news from Finland-China border, by Spraunius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/13/china%e2%80%99s-geopolitical-phenomena-or-when-we-could-expect-news-from-finland-china-border-by-spraunius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Arūnas Spraunius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Belarus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hu Jintao]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The statement about the news from the border of China  and Finland is oxymoron, without any doubt. However, the title does  show a certain tendency: even extreme scenarios should not be rejected  in the confused globalization, Arūnas Spraunius wrote in geopolitika.lt on 2 January.
In September Beijing released a policy document  laying [...]]]></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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				<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eastern/Central Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighbours]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Valentinas Beržiūnas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithuanian-Belarusian relations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>

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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>Four Neighbours – Four Foes? By Girnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/23/four-neighbours-%e2%80%93-four-foes-by-girnius/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/23/four-neighbours-%e2%80%93-four-foes-by-girnius/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eastern/Central Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kestutis Girnius]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nordic-Baltic cooperation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BaltoScandia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Latvia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law on Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithuanian-Polish relations]]></category>
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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. Kubilius: the Eurasian Union is being encouraged by Soviet nostalgia as well</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/11/28/a-kubilius-the-eurasian-union-is-being-encouraged-by-soviet-nostalgia-as-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/11/28/a-kubilius-the-eurasian-union-is-being-encouraged-by-soviet-nostalgia-as-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neighbours]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Lukashenko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrius Kubilius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belarus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kazakhstan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The establishment of a Eurasian Union encourages not only economic integration but also nostalgia for the imperial Soviet past, which is felt in countries like Russia and Belarus, says Andrius Kubilius, Lithuania’s Premier, as delfi.lt reported on November 24.
The head of government observed that so far these endeavours to rebuild any kind of union in [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/11/15/swedens-state-secretary-for-international-development-commends-ehu-students-and-alumni/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Eastern/Central Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Humanities University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anatoli Mikhailov]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hanna Hellquist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=9146</guid>
		<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>Eurasian Union: Is that the direction in which Baltic countries are encouraged to move?</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/11/09/eurasian-union-is-that-the-direction-in-which-baltic-countries-are-encouraged-to-move/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/11/09/eurasian-union-is-that-the-direction-in-which-baltic-countries-are-encouraged-to-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of the establishment of the Eurasian Union by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was expressed at an appropriate time. In the background of the current economic situation of the European Union, Russia is aiming to create a new power center, and this idea is relevant and current for many former countries of the [...]]]></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>Azubalis: the case of Beliatsky is nondemocratic forces&#8217; counter-attack to our growing support of Belarusian dissidents</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/10/05/azubalis-the-case-of-beliatsky-is-nondemocratic-forces-counter-attack-to-our-growing-support-of-belarusian-dissidents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/10/05/azubalis-the-case-of-beliatsky-is-nondemocratic-forces-counter-attack-to-our-growing-support-of-belarusian-dissidents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, there have been misleading comments, expressing doubts about the sincerity and trueness of Lithuania’s support of Belarus’s democracy. These reproaches were fuelled by the tricky actions of the Belarusian law-enforcement to get information on Beliatsky’s bank accounts from Lithuania and Poland, Audronius Azubalis wrote in delfi.lt on 27 September.
In the name of the Foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is allowed to a political scientist is not allowed to the president (once again about the speech of D. Grybauskaitė on the opposition of Belarus) by Laurinavicius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/29/what-is-allowed-to-a-political-scientist-is-not-allowed-to-the-president-once-again-about-the-speech-of-d-grybauskaite-on-the-opposition-of-belarus-by-laurinavicius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ales Beliatski]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Lukashenko]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=8364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although a week has passed since the statement of the president D. Grybauskaitė about the opposition of Belarus which scandalously pealed not only in Lithuania. I think that it is worthy coming back to it once again, the rather that after the cooling-off, one can sometimes look at everything in a more objective and intent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D. Semaska: &#8220;A lot has been done&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/23/d-semaska-a-lot-has-been-done/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/23/d-semaska-a-lot-has-been-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the Lithuanian foreign policy, particularly relationship with neighbours, cause concern for experienced reviewers and the ordinary citizens. But the President Dalia Grybauskaite’s Chief Adviser Darius Semaska is confident that the best balance is achieved between the country and citizenship area, lzinios.lt wrote on 12 September.
Some key decisions that reinforce our country’s role within international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Built a prison for themselves by Aleknonis</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/20/built-a-prison-for-themselves-by-aleknonis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/20/built-a-prison-for-themselves-by-aleknonis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How will Lithuania survive a new alleged shame and a new alleged international humiliation? The former head of the State security department announced that the United States of America moved their intelligence representation to the Baltic States from Vilnius to Tallinn. This allegedly does an enormous damage to our intelligence community, Gintaras Aleknonis wrote in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belarusian opposition concerned more about money than about independence – Grybauskaite</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/13/belarusian-opposition-concerned-about-money-more-than-about-independence-grybauskaite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Belarusian opposition is mostly thinking about more money, but very little about the country’s independence from Russia; Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite said.
“If you look closely, some of the nine candidates who ran for the presidential elections were financed and supported by the Kremlin. When you talk to them or you hear an opposition figure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R. Simasius: Lithuania differs from Austria because it has understood its mistake</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/04/r-simasius-lithuania-differs-from-austria-because-it-has-understood-its-mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=8172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having transferred details of human rights activist Alesis Beliatski to Minsk, Lithuania has recognised its mistakes, and begun to implement corrections to them. Meanwhile, Austria has released  Mikhail Golovatov, who is suspected of committing crimes against humanity, and has accepted praise from Russian officials, according to Lithuania‘s Minister of Justice Remigijus Simasius, delfi.lt reported on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President: Belarusian politics function in repetitive cycles</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/02/president-belarusian-politics-function-in-repetitive-cycles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lithuanian President, Dalia Grybauskaite, summed up the cycle of the Belarusian political system in a few sentences.  ‘…We are observing the fourth cycle of the election and the post-election situation in Belarus. We have observed very similar behaviour – a post-election conflict, alienation from the European Union, political prisoners, then their gradual release and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They’re to blame by Girnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/02/they%e2%80%99re-to-blame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kestutis Girnius]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ales Beliatski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ales Bialatski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ales Bialiatski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alla Bodak]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=8146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian authorities have had a fair share of missteps lately. The Ministry of Justice leaked the bank account details of human rights activist Ales Bialatski and other dissidents to Minsk. The Lithuanian Embassy in Belarus issued a visa to Belarusian Justice Vice-Minister Alla Bodak, who is on a list of Belarusian officials banned from entering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I were Alexander Lukashenko&#8230; By Vareikis</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/08/26/if-i-were-alexander-lukashenko-by-vareikis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MP Egidijus Vareikis, 23 August, delfi.lt.
So, if I were him, I&#8217;d be so proud of myself after this summer&#8217;s political kaleidoscope. I don&#8217;t mind that sometimes in the West they call me the last dictator in Europe. Let them have it, after all it&#8217;s an exceptional title, indicating an exceptional form of communication. I&#8217;ll soon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having Stumbled One-and-a-Half Times&#8230; by Girnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/08/23/having-stumbled-one-and-a-half-times-by-girnius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=8018</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania stumbled one-and-a-half times in its relations with Belarus. The Ministry of Justice made a deplorable and unjustifiable mistake in transferring data about the banks accounts held by the defender of human rights, Ales Beliatski, and other dissidents to Minsk. On Friday, Belarus officially accused Beliatski of income tax evasion on a grand scale, Kestutis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belarusian oppositionist blames Poland for the lack of sincerity and defends Lithuania</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/08/22/belarusian-oppositionist-blames-poland-for-the-lack-of-sincerity-and-defends-lithuania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belarusian human rights defender Vladimir Labkovic stated that representatives of country’s opposition immediately need to find out whether more information about bank accounts of Aleksandr Lukashenka opponents was given to Minsk, delfi.lt reported on 20 August.
“We urgently need information from Poland whether Belarusian governing bodies not only were given information about Ales Bialatski, but also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy is not a business by Aleknonis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the face of the painful story of disclosing the Belarusian human rights defender’s data, as always, we are making the same mistake – for some reason we are imagining that we have appeared under the world’s spotlight and, like a bride, worrying what the world will say about us, Gintaras Aleknonis had spoken on [...]]]></description>
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