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Is it possible that Lithuania awaits the final episode of this farcical soap opera? (0)
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Today, on returning from a hearing, I read an appeal made by the bailiff, Marekas Petrovskis on the internet website 'Delfi' that the Venckai family should approach him.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, I would like to direct an appeal to the highest office bearers of the country - Her Excellency the President, the Honorable Prime Minister and the Honorable Chairman of the Seimas.
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Urgent! Help is needed! Attention to journalists!!!! (5)
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Eight months ago Drasius Kedys, a father of a small daughter, sent to foreign journalists this letter, hoping that the journalists will help to find the truth in the pedophile case, which was blocked in Lithuania by the high Security Department officials and some prosecutors in the General Prosecutors Office. Eight months has passed, and Drasius Kedys was found killed. The Kedainiai court few days ago has returned this small girl to her mother, which was accused by Drasius Kedys by selling their small daughter to pedophiles. Hundreds of people are standing at Drasius Kedys sister's house and are protecting the small girl form pedophiles, because people know: if the girl goes with her mother, she will be killed as her father was killed a month ago, because the Drasius Kedys' daughter is the witness and can tell and recognize the pedophiles, who were raping this small girl. They say, that some pedophiles are the agents of Lithuanian Security Department, and the Lithuanian Security Department is protecting them from disclosing (course they are in high positions in court and other institutions), that's why they killed Drasius Kedys, a father of raped girl, and can kill the small girl as well.
That's why Lithuanian society is asking for help of international journalists and international human protection organisations: press our President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, the Chairman of Parliament Irena Degutiene, the Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius not to get the Drasius Kedys' daughter to the hands of pedophiles – IN THAT WAY THE SMALL GIRL WILL BE KILLED.
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A Tent and Hundreds of the Girl’s Defenders at the House of N. Venckienė. Road Blocked (0)
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After the Kėdainiai District Court ordered the return of the girl to Stankūnaitė L., the house of N. Venckienė (the temporary guardian of D.Kedys‘ daughter) was surrounded by the public who did not allow the bailiff and the policemen who arrived with him, access to N. Venckienė and the girl.
The People stood defiantly in defence of Drąsius Kedys‘ daughter confronting the police – as a human shield and with prayer, “Our Father”. Together with people, the girl is being defended from the paedophile clan by the priest Jonas Varkala; and Saulius Stoma a member of the Seimas is already on the scene for a few hours.
As night fall, people remain steadfast. They keep a watchful eye on neighbouring streets, too, as attempts were made to get into Neringa Venckienė’s house over the neighbour’s fence.
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NO to parade of the homosexuals in Vilnius! (1)
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We ask the Mayor to cancel the permit for European homosexuals to organize a parade in Vilnius.
We need neither officials of the EU Committee – the intercessors of the homosexuals - nor meetings of any members of sexual minorities in Lithuania. Vilnius is not a suitable place for solution of the homosexuals’ problems.
Therefore, we claim that we do not assent to organization and propagation of any events of the homosexuals in Vilnius. We militate for tolerance, but not for exceptional promotion and agitation.
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Secret CIA Jails in Lithuania: Legacy of Nazi Collaborationism (0)
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The «Amber Rebuff» was the code name of the operation jointly carried out by the CIA and Lithuania's Department of Homeland Security during which they transferred supposed Al Qaeda militants captured in Afghanistan to the country. In Lithuania, they were subjected to interrogation with tortures with the goal of obtaining information about Muslim extremist groups.
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News from Lhasa: questioning the leaders of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (0)
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The morning after our arrival to Lhasa, a very important meeting was scheduled with representatives of the TAR (Tibetan Autonomous Region) to discuss economic and social policies in Tibet.
They were all there, the Commissions and Departments of all policy fields were represented: development and reform, commerce, education, culture, poverty alleviation, health, environmental protection, ethnic and religious affairs, cultural heritage.
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Kazakhstan moving ahead (0)
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Today, in a speech delivered at the opening of the 3rd session of the Parliament in Astana, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev outlined recent successes and underlined tasks for the rest of the year. ... more
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Speech at the plenary session of the Parliamentary assembly of the OSCE (0)
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There have been celebrations on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the so call “fall” of the so-called “iron curtain”. Of course this is rather natural for the new bourgeoisie that emerged in the former SU and the former socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. But what about the people, the working people in particular? What is there for them to celebrate?
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Statement by communist members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE in Vilnius (0)
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We strongly condemn the resolution “Divided Europe Reunited” approved by the General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE which, on the pretext of combating totalitarianism, equates communism with nazism.
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Who is who in the Post-Soviet Lithuania? (0)
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The more time elapses since the eleventh of March, 1990, the clearer it becomes that post-soviet reality does essentially differ from the fine-sounding declarations of those days. Basically, this difference is shown by the fact that the post-soviet Lithuanian state denies its citizens the Human right to make use of the land either acquired by themselves or by way of inheritance. Whenever this Human rights is being safeguarded in a state, we call this state a state under the rule of law (carrying out its direct functions), whenever this Human right is being denied, it is by no means a state under the rule of law.
Far from safeguarding these Human rights, the law-giver of post-soviet Lithuania –time and again- is arbitrarily creating ever new „laws“ regulating the denial of these rights (be it the „land reform“ or the so-called „restoration of rights of ownership“).
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Did Obama really fire the chairman of General Motors? (0)
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Nothing like it has ever happened. The President of the United States, the elected representative of the people, has just told the head of General Motors -- a company that's spent more years at #1 on the Fortune 500 list than anyone else -- "You're fired!"
I simply can't believe it. This stunning, unprecedented action has left me speechless for the past two days. I keep saying, "Did Obama really fire the chairman of General Motors? The wealthiest and most powerful corporation of the 20th century? Can he do that? Really? Well, damn! What else can he do?!"
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You will be greatly astonished to know the following facts (1)
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The judicial scandal of the twentieth century – systematic violation of a peremptory rule of international law by Lithuania.
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EESC plenary session adopts a new social, economic and environmental pact for Europe (0)
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In an historic move at today's plenary session, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) adopted a strategic, long-term document on the current political debate and the challenges ahead – A Programme for Europe: proposals of civil society. The Committee has presented the EU institutions with a set of concrete measures and initiatives needed to overcome the economic crisis and support sustainable growth in the years to come. It has also taken a position on the European elections, calling on the other institutions, the Member States and stakeholders to ensure that the June elections discuss matters of European interest and not just national issues.
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EESC civil society prize: Call for nominations opened (0)
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For the third time, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will award the EESC prize for organised civil society. The prize aims at rewarding and encouraging concrete achievements and initiatives that significantly contribute to promoting European identity and integration.
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EESC plenary session debates common asylum and immigration policy with Commissioner Barrot (0)
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On 25 February 2009 the EESC plenary session held a debate on a common EU asylum and immigration policy with Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security. Mr Barrot's speech focused on the concrete measures and instruments required for an integrated European framework for immigration and asylum. Mr Barrot also provided details of the European Integration Forum, a joint EESC-Commission initiative. The EESC adopted a series of key opinions linked to this topic.
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94% of all outgoing E-mail is SPAM (0)
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The amount of SPAM is on the rise in the world, and at this point it has reached a dramatic level, indeed. DEAC, a provider of outsourced IT services in Latvia, has studied the flow of E-mail among its clients, finding that over the last five years, the amount of SPAM has increased by more than 40%. In 2003, the proportion of SPAM was nearly 50% of all outgoing E-mail, but in 2008, more than 94% of it was SPAM. The new DEAC anti-SPAM system dealt with these easily and prevented them arriving in the E-mail inboxes of the company’s clients.
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The Role of the Lithuanian Judge in the European Court of Human Rights (0)
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As far as the return of real estate to the original land owners in Lithuania is concerned, it is important to stress that the situation differs completely from the way in which this problem is being dealt with in the other „Reform States“ of Eastern Europe. In Latvia, for example, all the land was quite simply returned to the original owners respectively to their heirs. Even in those cases, where buildings had been erected - on the plots owned by the original owners - during the period of the Russian occupation, the bare land was returned anyway, which procedure left the occupants of such buildings with only one option – to purchase the land from the land-owners for the real market price.
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Land reform á la Lithuanian (0)
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One of the former Lithuanian governments, by „slightly“ modifying the law for the return of land to former land-owners, enabled Lithuanian party-comrades and cunning speculators owning waste land in sandy or swampy regions, practically without any value, to „exchange“ this land for plots in the most valuable residential areas of the big cities as well as for land situated by pleasant lakes and in recreational areas. This amendment, originally meant as a gift for „deserved“ party comrades, has ever since miraculously turned the owners of waste land into multi-millionaires, whereas the legal owners of these valuable residential plots and attractive recreational areas were made beggars by way of this „legal trick“.
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Use of outsourced services will strengthen co-operation among companies at Pan-Baltic level (0)
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In the eyes of the world, the Baltic States are perceived as a single region, and many companies operate not just in one, but in all three of them. These are companies which increasingly feel the need for services and solutions at the Pan-Baltic level. DEAC Ltd., which offers outsourced IT services in Latvia, is prepared to offer such Pan-Baltic services through its new data centre, “Riga,” which is going to be the largest centre of its type in the Baltic States.
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The unjust though implemented law of post-soviet Lithuania (0)
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On the morning of 2008-12-24 Elzbieta Jurgelevičienė, a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania, received an especially strange letter from the European Court of Human Rights. The very text of the letter received from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg by Elzbieta Jurgelevičienė on the morning of December 24th, 2008, was drawn up in Strasbourg December 23rd, 2008 (which fact is confirmed by the date of this letter mentioned in the text). On the morning of December 24th, 2008 this letter arrived in the village of Tabariškės, district of Kaunas. This means that a letter sent in Strasbourg, France, by post, did travel only one day minus several hours to reach the place of residence of the above applicant. We asked employees of the central post-office of Kaunas, whether such a speedy delivery of a letter is at all possible. These people assured us that no letter from Strasbourg to Kaunas has ever arrived before the elapse of at least 4 days. As the time in question falls within the period of sending Christmas greetings, this time will be considerably longer. That is why there is only one conclusion to be drawn from these facts: this European Court of Human Rights document was not sent from Strasbourg, but from Lithuanian territory.
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Stalin's times back to Lithuania (2)
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Who could imagine, that after Lithuania became an EU and NATO member, the Stalin's times will come back? ... more
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The EESC makes proposals to improve the mobility of young people in Europe (0)
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During its Plenary Session on 28 and 29 May 2008, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will adopt an exploratory opinion on the mobility of young people in Europe. ... more
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The court didn't allow Lithuanian journalist to go to EESC special plenary session (3)
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Please, hand over my request to the President of European Parliament Mr.Hans-Gert Pottering, to the President of the European Commission Mr.Jose Manual Barroso and other EU bodies who cares about democratic processes in EU.
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"Do you know, that Lithuania is corrupted country?" (0)
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Lithuania, you shock me. The pen is mighty than the sword.
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The EESC celebrates its 50th anniversary! (0)
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On 28 May 2008, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will mark its 50th anniversary with a special commemorative plenary session opened by EESC President Dimitris Dimitriadis, and key addresses by Mr Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament, Mr José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, and Mr Luc van den Brande, President of the Committee of Regions. ... more
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EESC hearing urges caution on biofuels targets (0)
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At a 17 April 2008 Public Hearing on Sustainability Criteria for Biofuels, representatives of organised civil society urged the European Union's institutions and its Member States to exercise extreme caution when considering the role and use of biofuels.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Libraries grant recipients to meet in Lithuania (0)
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Partners of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries initiative will meet in Vilnius, Lithuania from April 7 - 11 to share their experiences, exchange ideas and explore solutions as they plan for and implement programs to provide more people with opportunities that Internet access can provide.
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Address by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (0)
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Address by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan H.E. Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan.
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The growth of welfare of the citizens of Kazakhstan is the main goal of the state's policy (0)
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The annual Address of President Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan “The growth of welfare of the citizens of Kazakhstan - is the main goal of the state's policy” is a logical continuation of the Addresses of 2006 and 2007, which were devoted to Kazakhstan’s Strategy of joining the ranks of the world’s 50 most competitive nations and modernization of society, as well as innovative development of economy followed by “30 corporate leaders” program.
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Russia’s Soft Power Ambitions (0)
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The European Union thinks of itself as a 'soft power', which is defined by Joseph Nye as the "ability to get what you want through attraction rather than through coercion" and which can "be cultivated through relations with allies, economic assistance, and cultural exchanges."
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SOS: Independent newspapers are being liquidated in Lithuania (1)
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