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VilNews section 4: FROM OUR ARCHIVES

Welcome to some of our highlights from the last 10 years! Articles, interviews, comment articles and more…


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Fri, 21st September, 2012 - Posted by - (1) Comment

FROM JUNE 2006

Lingering nomenklatura


Major General Jonas Kronkaitis was Lithuania’s Vice Minister of National
Defense and Commander of the country’s armed forces for the period 1999 –
2004. Vytautas Dudenas was a member of the Lithuanian Parliament in the
1990s and later Minister of Finance for the period 1999 – 2000.
Both are now retired.

“Many of our Lithuanian politicians, civil servants, judges, the court system and the prosecutor’s office are still the children of the old Soviet ‘nomenklatura’, and there is a great need for fresh blood and new thinking in order for Lithuania to catch up with Western Europe.”

This said Jonas Kronkaitis and Vytautas Dudenas in 2006. Are they right, also in 2012?

Read more...

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OPINIONS
Here you will find editorials and letters
from readers who have commented to
our articles over several years.


    • Opposition leader Andrius Kubilius in January 2006:
      “Lithuania needs a visionary strategy”

      Read our exclusive interview with Mr. Kubilius from 2006, two years before he became Prime Minister of Lithuania, a post he has now held for four years.

      How successful has he been? Share your thoughts on this topic by writing to editor@VilNews.com...
    • “It is better to light one small candle, than to curse the darkness”
      - K’ung Fu-tzu (Confucius)
      By Aage Myhre, November 2004

      Fourteen years ago this November, I first arrived in Lithuania. I came with other Norwegians, having been invited by the parliamentary chairman, Dr. Vytautas Landsbergis.

      Read more…...


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