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	<title>The Lithuania Tribune &#187; Lukashenko</title>
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		<title>Government concerned over Belarus trials</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/05/17/government-concerned-over-belarus-trials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 11:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lithuanian government has voiced it concern over the court cases that sprung from Belarus&#8217; post-election protests in Minsk.
The Belarusian government cracked down on protesters sending in police and military who bashed them with clubs and arrested them en masse for crimes against the state.
&#8220;The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is deeply concerned about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a plan for Lithuania’s evacuation?</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/04/25/is-there-a-plan-for-lithuania%e2%80%99s-evacuation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The events in Japan have made Europe question whether it needs nuclear power plants. The people and the governments in Europe are worried, Lietuvos Rytas daily writes in its editorial on 16 March. Germany suspended the work of seven nuclear power plants yesterday. Moreover, the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grybauskaite on Belarus, Putin, US-Russian ‘re-set’ and Georgia</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/04/04/grybauskaite-on-belarus-putin-us-russian-%e2%80%98re-set%e2%80%99-and-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the second part of the interview by Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite to Delfi.lt news portal on 15 March.  Read the first part of the interview here, and the second part of the interview here.
Attitude Towards Belarus Was Shaped by the EU Position
Has the recent presidential election in Minsk and the events that followed the election [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An outbreak of self-flagellation, by K. Girnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/31/an-outbreak-of-self-flagellation-by-k-girnius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chances are that Lithuania will end up surrounded by the nuclear power plants in Kaliningrad and Belarus. In March, Russia and Belarus signed an intergovernmental agreement to cooperate in the building of a new NPP in Astraviec, Belarus, approximately 50 km from Vilnius. A 2400 MW NPP with two reactors should be built by 2018 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania is yet to feel the wrath of Radoslaw Sikorski</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/05/lithuania-is-yet-to-feel-the-wrath-of-radoslaw-sikorski/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that two young, stubborn, and certain of being right Ministers of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis and Radoslaw Sikorski straight out hate each other, Audrius Baciulis writes in Veidas weekly magazine on 16 February..
Lithuanian politicians and diplomats forecast a strong worsening of the relations between Poland and Lithuania in the second quarter because Poland starts its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Partner Has Grown Up; Opinion</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/02/15/strategic-partner-has-grown-up-opinion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Sikorski has caught the swine flu, and the complications of the disease have affected the minister at the weakest spot – the head”. This is how insultingly Sovetskaja Belorusija, the daily newspaper controlled by the administration of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, described the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski. It was Lukashenko’s response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head of Belarus&#8217; Presidential Administration Makey visits Lithuania</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/27/head-of-belarus-presidential-administration-makey-visits-lithuania/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/27/head-of-belarus-presidential-administration-makey-visits-lithuania/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the closest Lukashenko’s ally, the Head of Presidential Administration of Belarus Vladimir Makey paid a visit to Lithuania a few days ago, Lietuvos rytas daily reported on 27 January.  The paper claims that Makey had a meeting with Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite, even though this meeting was not marked on the President&#8217;s calendar.
‘The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania’s OSCE presidency is an obstacle to independent foreign policy</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/20/lithuania%e2%80%99s-osce-presidency-is-an-obstacle-to-independent-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos rytas views Lithuania’s possibilities to peruse its political agenda while chairing the OSCE in 2011.  The editorial was published on 5 January.
The Lithuanian diplomatic service celebrated the beginning of 2011 by undertaking perhaps the greatest challenge since the restoration of the country&#8217;s independence. On 1 January, Vilnius took over the OSCE chairmanship; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania supports sanctions to Minsk officials but against economic sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/18/lithuania-supports-sanctions-to-minsk-officials-but-against-economic-sanctions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania supports the EU’s plans to impose sanctions to individual Belarusian officials but not on its economy, Darius Semaska, the President Dalia Grybauskaite’s chief adviser on foreign policy, said in an interview to the Ziniu Radijas radio station on 18 January.
Referring to an interview of Edward Lucas, the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grybauskaite: We Should Stop Deceiving Ourselves That We Will Soon Have New Nuclear Power Plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read an extract of an interview with the Lithuanian President Dalia Gryubauskaite who was interviewed on domestic, foreign policy, energy projects published in Veidas magazine on 3 January 
Lithuanian President believes that Lithuania&#8217;s economy will regain its footing in 2011, but she says it will be a slow process the success of which will depend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9 EHU students are released and 2 students and a teacher are still in prison</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/13/9-ehu-students-are-released-and-2-students-and-a-teacher-are-still-in-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[European Humanities University has condemned the violent dispersal of a mainly peaceful demonstration in the aftermath of a presidential election in Belarus on 19th of December 2010. Hundreds of detainees stood closed-door trials, among them were the EHU students. 
11 EHU students were imprisoned and most of them were sentenced up to 15 days in prison. 
As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grybauskaite defends Belarus policy</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/06/grybauskaite-defends-belarus-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Dalia Grybauskaite has defended her stance towards Belarus from criticism from former President Valdas Adamkus, who called the current policy a &#8220;disaster.&#8221;
Grybauskaite has spent much of her term opening dialogue with neighbouring Belarus and its leader President Aleksandr Lukashenko. In doing so she has attracted criticism from those within the country who say that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every one a winner, Lithuania, Belarus and OSCE</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/05/every-one-a-winner-lithuania-belarus-and-osce-by-michael-collier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What better way to start the new year than with some harmless predictions?
As you know, Belarus staged (being the appropriate word) elections on December 19 that were – to put it as mildly as did the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) – ‘flawed’  the Baltic Features wrote.
Interestingly, the rigged, violent election that saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Several foreign policy challenges, by Kestutis Girnius</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upon joining the European Union and NATO, Lithuania’s Foreign Service was concerned for its future. Would Lithuania be left to only passively implement joint EU and NATO policies or will she have her own foreign policy ? The Foreign Ministry decided to become a regional leader and a promoter of values based policies out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A glimpse at 2010, and Happy 2011!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lithuanian Tribune would like to wish you all a very happy 2011 and thank you for being with us.  2010 were intense and let us hope that the light that we see in the year 2011 tunnel is not the light of an approaching train.  We would like to mark the most important events [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lukashenko went mad or isn’t very smart – MEP Landsbergis</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/12/29/lukashenko-went-mad-or-isn%e2%80%99t-very-smart-%e2%80%93-mep-landsbergis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lukashenko has either went mad or is not as clever as it appeared, Vytautas Landsbergis,  the Lithuanian Member of the European Parliament, a prominent Lithuanian politician said at a meeting in the Lithuanian parliament organized by the parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs on 29 December.
&#8220;This whole situation, everything that has happened, is absolutely not beneficial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kubilius: we need to change our Belarus strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Following the presidential elections in Belarus, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said it is time for the west to take a different attitude to the country.
The main opposition leader, who was bashed and sent to hospital before being thrown in jail, is yet to be released along with 600 others.
Kubilius admitted that he didn&#8217;t have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania and Europe was too naïve about Belarus – Seimas Speaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania and Europe have been too naïve in their estimation of Lukashenka’s intentions to democratize Belarus, Lithuania’s Parliament Speaker Irena Degutiene is convinced.
‘The general evaluation would be that Lithuania and Europe have been too naïve in their thinking that democracy can be introduced through undemocratic ways and that a person, who has always used authoritarian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ForMin condemns undemocratic elections in Belarus but 2/3 Belarusians in Vilnius support Lukashenka</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Audronius Azubalis follows the line of international observers and claims that the Presidential election in Belarus was undemocratic.  The Belarusian embassy in Vilnius, on the other hand, reports that two thirds of all Belarusian nationals that voted in Vilnius casted their votes for President Lukashenka.
‘Lithuania supports the Organization for Security and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuanian MFA statement on events in Minsk on 19 December</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania closely follows the situation after the elections in the neighbouring state of Belarus, and regrets and expresses concern that on 19 December, the presidential election day, Belarusian authorities failed to grant the freedom of assembly to Belarusian citizens and used force against demonstrators, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release today.
Especially [...]]]></description>
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