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		<title>The Rzeczpospolita is misleading: Warsaw, not Vilnius, is adulating Russia, by Laučius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/30/the-rzeczpospolita-is-misleading-warsaw-not-vilnius-is-adulating-russia-by-laucius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita published an article encouraging the restoration of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, I say it would be worth considering, despite the fact that it would anger the plentiful ranks of polonophobes. If an article reproaching Lithuania with the dislike of Russia was printed, it would be understandable: the Moscow–Warsaw relations are almost [...]]]></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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		<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>More than 1,000 of Lithuanian citizens get Karta Polaka annually</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/21/more-than-1000-of-lithuanian-citizens-get-karta-polaka-annually/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year more than 1,000 Lithuanian citizens of Polish origin receive the Karta Polaka, which has been criticized by the Lithuanian government, 15min.lt reported on 17 January.
The Polish embassy in Vilnius told the BNS that these documents were issued to 1,024 Lithuanian citizens in 2011. 1,197 cards were issued in 2010. Over 4,000 of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Voice: A.Ažubalis is partly responsible for poor relations with Poland and Latvia</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/20/european-voice-a-azubalis-is-partly-responsible-for-poor-relations-with-poland-and-latvia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/20/european-voice-a-azubalis-is-partly-responsible-for-poor-relations-with-poland-and-latvia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Brussels’s newspaper European Voice, Audronius Ažubalis, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, should be partly responsible for the problems between Lithuania and Poland, lrytas.lt wrote on 19 January.
“A.Ažubalis, who is now serving the second term of office, cannot be blamed for all foreign problems of Lithuania. Having such neighbours as Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>V. Landsbergis encourages his fellow party memembers to a legal assessment of Karta Polaka</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/18/v-landsbergis-encourages-his-fellow-party-memembers-to-a-legal-assessment-of-karta-polaka/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/18/v-landsbergis-encourages-his-fellow-party-memembers-to-a-legal-assessment-of-karta-polaka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEP Vytautas Landsbergis encouraged other members of his party to aim for the legal assessment of the so-called Karta Polaka, which is being distributed by the Polish government among Lithuanian citizens of Polish descent, 15min.lt reported on 15 January.
During the council meeting of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, V. Landsbergis said the Constitutional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Česlovas Juršėnas – Poles want to teach us, but they do not talk about the situation of Lithuanian education in Poland</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/05/ceslovas-jursenas-%e2%80%93-poles-want-to-teach-us-but-they-do-not-talk-about-the-situation-of-lithuanian-education-in-poland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Poles want to teach Lithuanians, however, they do not talk about the situation of Lithuanian education in Poland,&#8221; — says Česlovas Juršėnas, Deputy Chairman of the Lithuanian Parliament, when assessing the bilateral relations.
&#8220;The essence of the matter, in my opinion, is that our Polish friends want to teach us and demand of us those things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maxima group to buy Polish retail chain Aldik Nova</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/29/maxima-group-to-buy-polish-retail-chain-aldik-nova/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian retail chain Maxima received permission to start its expansion into Poland’s retail market.  The Baltic giant , who already operates some 459 retail supermarkets in the Baltic States and Bulgaria has received approval from Poland&#8217;s anti-monopoly watchdog, the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, (UOKiK) for takeover of the Polish supermarket chain Aldik Nova, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military power poker near the borders of Lithuania, by Jasiulionis</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/24/military-power-poker-near-the-borders-of-lithuania-by-jasiulionis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, President Dalia Grybauskaitė met Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Vilnius and said that “the number of military forces and armaments is increasing near the borders of Lithuania and the Baltic States, intense military training is taking place thus NATO’s presence and attention is very important.” Minister of National Defence Rasa Juknevičienė agreed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hitachi – Poland never took Visaginas’ project seriously</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/23/hitachi-%e2%80%93-poland-never-took-visaginas%e2%80%99-project-seriously/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that Poland suspended its participation in the Visaginas’ Nuclear Power Plant project will have no impact on the further course of the project: strategic Japanese investor Hitachi determined to continue participating fully in the project, delfi.lt wrote on 13 December.
“The fact that Poland stopped its participation does not diminish the significance of the [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Grybauskaitė: relationships with Russia might worsen</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/20/grybauskaite-relationships-with-russia-might-worsen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė claims that the  relationships between Russia and Lithuania “might worsen”. She also  claims that Russian government bears sole responsibility for this.  According to Grybauskaitė, Russian government representatives are  blinded by “Soviet nostalgia”, bnn-news.com reported on 19 December.
“I do not have any illusions that the situation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visaginas is a geopolitical project but Poland thinks differently – President</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/19/visaginas-is-a-geopolitical-project-but-poland-thinks-differently-%e2%80%93-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The official Warsaw begun treating energy projects, like Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant project, from the commercial side even though the Lithuanian president thinks that such energy projects involve a geopolitical character.  In an interview to TV3 commercial television the president Dalia Grybauskaite noted that Poland is increasingly opening close cooperation with Russia
‘Back when it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A. Sekmokas – PGE manager did not coordinate the decision concerning NP with Polish government</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/18/a-selmokas-%e2%80%93-pge-manager-did-not-coordinate-the-decision-concerning-np-with-polish-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minister of Energy, Arvydas Sekmokas, has made claims that the former Chairman of the Board of Polish energy company Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), did not coordinate the company’s withdrawal from the Visaginas nuclear power plant project with the Polish government, and as a result, has left the company, delfi.lt reported on 15 December.
The issue was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President – Poland’s withdrawal from NPP project should make running of the plant easier</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Dalia Grybauskaitė did not emphasise Poland’s decision to end its participation in the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project as a crucial turning point in the development of the plant. The President added that the fewer participants involved, the easier it would be to run the project, 15min.lt reported on 14 December.
“Currently, the plant is due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ažubalis – Bilateral relations and Poland’s withdrawal from Visaginas project not related</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 9 December, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Audronius Ažubalis, urged people to stop searching for a link between Poland’s decision to end its participation in the Visaginas nuclear power plant project, and the state of bilateral relations, writes 15min.lt.
Ažubalis added that the new nuclear power plant project would be based on firm logical grounds.
“Money has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latvenergo: VNPP project has returned to the primary stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polish state-owned power company PGE (Polska Grupa Energetyczna)’s decision to end its participation in the new Visaginas nuclear power plant project means a return to the primary stage of the project, stated Āris Žīgurs, head of the Latvian state-owned energy company Latvenergo, delfi.lt reported on 9 December.
“Clearly the remaining participants of the project are going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>V.Dombrovskis: we will finish VNPP even without Poland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis was not surprised of Poland‘s position to withdraw from the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (VNPP) construction project, delfi.lt reported on 9 December.
According to Latvia’s prime minister, Baltic States may proceed new VNPP project even without Poland.
‘Poland in previous preparatory meetings considered the project  to be too small for Poland. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poland freezes its participation in the Visaginas’ N-Plant project</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poland has decided to freeze its participation in the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (VAE) project in Lithuania, state energy group PGE announced on 9 December.  The Visaginas Plant COE is surprised, the Minister of Energy states that the project will go ahead as planned and the Prime Minster is convinced that this is only negotiations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maxima Group to acquire Polish Aldik Nova</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maxima Grupe (Maxima Group) the Baltic States largest retail trade company is planning to acquire Poland’s retail chain Aldik Nova which runs 24 shops, vz.lt reported on 2 December.  According to the portal Maxima Grupe has already applied to Poland’s competition panel for permission to acquire Aldik Nova.
‘That’s what the plans are – to acquire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sikorski&#8217;s speech: Poland and the future of the European Union</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Radek Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland
Berlin, 28 November 2011
Mr President, Minister – dear Guido, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let me start with a story.
20 years ago, in 1991, I was a reporter, visiting what was then the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia. I was interviewing the chairman of the Republican Bank of Croatia when he
received a phone call [...]]]></description>
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