Indigenous affairs raise tough questions Alexander Osipov On 1 February 2019, the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) publicised two decisions on identical complaints about the political participation of Sami in Finland [...]
Aliaksandr Adamkovič: the Belarusian voice will keep sounding in diverse Vilnius The Republic of Lithuania is home to about 36,000 ethnic Belarusians, most of whom are concentrated in Vilnius (Belarusian: [...]
Media as bearers of democratic values: local modification of the CNN effect and its outcomes for Slovakia Katarína Stratená The CNN effect is a theory which originates within political science and [...]
Vida Montvydaitė: there is no agreement in Lithuania on what national minority is Diversity management requires a mutual dialogue between representatives of minorities and state authorities. Nearly every state in [...]
Robert Mickiewicz: Poland launched its kin-state policies in Lithuania only after democratic transition An autochthonous Polish community of Lithuania is concentrated in the Vilnius (Polish: Wilno) region. In the interwar [...]
School-leaving exam as a divisive point in Lithuania Ewelina Knutowicz On 8 January 2019, the Council of Europe Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities published [...]
Ilya Lensky: Jews were perceived as the least politically problematic minority in interwar Latvia During the interwar period, Latvia was the home of sizeable and vibrant Jewish community. Its [...]
Mirosław Jankowiak: education in mother tongue is crucial for preserving national identity According to the most recent population census of 2011, more than 44 thousand of Latvia’s residents declared their [...]
Ukraine and its national heroes: time for changes? David R. Marples Introduction On 19 December 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a resolution on the celebration of certain dates in 2019, which [...]
Polish schools in Belarus are hostages of Sovietized officials One can speak about the division of the Poles of Belarus and Lithuania into two different sub-groups of the Polish nation [...]
