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	<title>The Lithuania Tribune &#187; Kirkilas</title>
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		<title>No leadership challenge for Butkevicius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/04/15/no-competition-in-sosdems-chairperson-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Internal Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Algirdas Butkevicius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juozas Olekas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Social Democrat partyto hold its chairperson elections on 30 April.  However, unlike the Conservative party, its incumbent leader Algirdas Butkevicius very likely is not going to face any competition for the post.
Lithuanian media reported that MEP Zigimantas Balcytis refused to run since his term in the European Parliament has not finished yet.  Gediminas Kirkilas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania, Caught in Web of Intrigue, To Become Hostage to Foreign Nuclear Power Plants, former PM</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/24/lithuania-caught-in-web-of-intrigue-to-become-hostage-to-foreign-nuclear-power-plants-formar-pm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read an interview with former Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas by Lietuvos rytas on Lithuania becoming a ‘hostage’ to Belarusian and Russian nuclear plants being built near Lithuanian borders.  The interview was published on 16 March.
Minsk and Moscow have agreed on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus. Lithuania, which had announced its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the era of Algirdas Brazauskas</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/07/29/the-end-of-the-era-of-algirdas-brazauskas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arturas Paulauskas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audrius Baciulis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazauskas Algirdas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bronislovas Lubys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dujotekana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivan Paleicik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirkilas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lietuvos Dujos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LUKOIL Baltia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Veidas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viktor Uspaskich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vytautas Radzvilas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In memoria – Algirdas Brazauskas by Audrius Baciulis for Veidas magazine’s web side on 28 June.
The political era of Algirdas Brazauskas has ended. By all rights it began in 1988, on June 24th of that year in Vilnius,  Sąjūdis organized a farewell gathering for the delegates to the 19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania should be cautious about improving ties with Belarus</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/07/07/lithuania-should-be-cautious-about-improving-ties-with-belarus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrius Kubilius]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brazauskas Algirdas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalia Grybauskaitė]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgian-Russian War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kazahstan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kurmanbek Bakiyev]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania’s leading daily Lietuvos rytas on 30 June posted an editorial examining Lithuania’s policy towards Belarus.  According to Lietuvos rytas the Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius&#8217;s working visit to Belarus even drew the attention of the world. This is not unexpected since the West views the authoritarian Alexander Lukashenka’s regime with suspicion; therefore, the Lithuanian Prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dmitriy Rogozin: diplomat without &#8216;aqualung&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/04/28/dmitriy-rogozin-diplomat-without-aqualung/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An exclusive interview with Russia&#8217;s envoy to NATO Dmitriy Rogozin, by Lithuania’s Russian minority weekly Ekspress Nedelia on 25 March.
In mid-March, narcissuses, crocuses, and tulips are in full bloom in Belgium. You can find these flowers everywhere: in Brussels and in the cozy suburbs surrounding the city, such as Ukkel (where the Russian Embassy, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania’s grey cardinal interviewed on relations with US, CIA prison and more</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/01/21/lithuania%e2%80%99s-grey-cardinal-interviewed-on-relations-with-us-cia-prison-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian web site Delfi on 12 January published an interview with Albinas Januška, a former state secretary of the Foreign Ministry, former adviser to President Valdas Adamkus and Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas, and signatory to the Lithuanian Independence Act. 
Some commentators call him Lithuania’s grey cardinal and a mastermind behind so called group called the ‘Statesmen’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G.Aleknonis-The Prisons of CIA. Truth under the counter</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/01/12/899/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[„At that time in Lithuania two equal forces stood in front of each other – bourgeois nationalists and the labour people. And if our paratroopers wouldn&#8217;t have interfered, nobody knows what could have happened&#8230;“ Such a version of the events of the 13th of January of 1991 I&#8217;ve heard from Mikhail Gorbachev.
A decade ago, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Committee will not give a clear answer on feasibility of CIA prison in Lithuania</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/12/21/committee-will-not-give-a-clear-answer-on-feasibility-of-cia-prison-in-lithuania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Parliamentary Committee investigating allegations of the possible CIA ‘black sites’ in Lithuania most likely will fail to give answers.  Since the committee failed to complete the conclusions of the parliamentary probe on Monday morning it is to vote on the final occlusions tonight.
Head of the National Defence and Security Committee Mr Arvydas Anusausakas said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do Two Social Democratic Presidents Want? By Virgis Valentinavicius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2009/11/05/what-do-two-social-democratic-presidents-want-by-virgis-valentinavicius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President Algirdas Brazauskas and the President Valdas Adamkus are in unison dissatisfied with the Conservatives and the Prime Minister Mr. Andrius Kubilius. They are more in favour of the Chairman of the Seimas Mrs. Irena Degutienė, who is &#8220;more clever&#8221;, because she is professedly more friendly towards the Social democrats. This kind of a [...]]]></description>
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