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	Lithuania - MSN Encarta
		In Lithuania, a special commission was formed in 1988 to propose amendments to the republic’s constitution in order to accommodate Gorbachev’s reforms; members of the commission founded the coalition Sjūdis (the Lithuanian Movement for Reconstruction).
		In December 2002 Lithuania was one of ten countries formally invited to join the European Union (EU) as part of a long-planned expansion of that organization.
		Lithuania entered NATO in April 2004, and it was admitted as a full member of the EU one month later.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555831_5/Lithuania.html (1587 words)

	Lithuania (02/07)
		In 2005, Lithuania's GDP increased by 7.6%, and in 2006, by 7.4%.
		Urbanization increased from 39% in 1959 to 68% in 1989.
		Lithuania maintains foreign diplomatic missions in 60 countries on six continents, a consular post in one country that is not represented by an embassy, consular posts led by Honorary Consuls in 32 countries that are not represented by an embassy, and a special mission in one country without other diplomatic representation.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5379.htm (5081 words)

	History - Lithuania - Europe
		Lithuania was annexed by Russia, except for a small section in the southwest that was awarded to Prussia; that too went to Russia in 1815.
		In Lithuania, a special commission was formed in May 1988 to propose amendments to the republic’s constitution in order to accommodate Gorbachev’s reforms; members of the commission founded the coalition S?judis (the Lithuanian Movement for Reconstruction) in October.
		After a runoff general election in November 1996, the center-left DLP was replaced by a conservative coalition comprising the Homeland Union and the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party.
	www.countriesquest.com /europe/lithuania/history.htm (2201 words)

	Background Info \| Lithuania Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		Lithuania suffered a military coup in 1926 and from 1929 was ruled by Antanas Smetona along similar lines to Mussolini's Italy.
		Hitler invaded Lithuania in 1941, and during the Nazi occupation nearly all of Lithuania's Jewish population was killed in camps or ghettos.
		Lithuania became a fully-fledged NATO and EU member in early 2004, and oozed with pride when it became the first of 25 EU members to ratify the EU constitution in November that year.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/europe/lithuania/essential?a=culture (1153 words)

	CHARLES BRAY's Lithuani Journal
		Lithuania is unwilling to acknowledge its own role in the extermination of its Jewish population, preferring to present itself as the innocent and helpless victim of both Soviet and Nazi aggression.
		Lithuania's chief EU negotiator, Petras Austrevicius, said there were no doubts as to the result of the vote, but there was some anxiety about the turnout.
		Lithuania is one of 10 mainly former-communist countries on course to join the EU next year.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Europe/Lithuania (4169 words)

	A Short History of Lithuania’s Seimas Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lithuania's elections' law fully enfranchised all adult population of the country.
		A territory of Lithuania was divided into 10 electoral districts, but actual voting was held only in 7 electoral districts due to occupation of Vilnius region by Poland in 1919.
		The Third Seimas of Lithuania was elected in June, 1926.
	vingis.sc-uni.ktu.lt /rinkimai/seimhist.htm (544 words)

	999 Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lithuania was the first Soviet republic to do so, though Soviet forces unsuccessfully tried until August 1991 to suppress this secession, including an incident at Vilnius' TV Tower in January 1991 that resulted in the death of several Lithuanian civilians.
		Lithuania's major warm-water port of KlaipÃâ”da lies at the narrow mouth of KurÃÂ¡iÃÂ³ marios (Curonian Lagoon), a shallow lagoon extending south to Kaliningrad.
		Prior to 1998, Lithuania was the Baltic state that conducted the most trade with Russia; however, the 1998 Russian financial crisis forced the country to orient toward the West.
	www.999lithuania.com (1837 words)

	Central Europe Review - Lithuania: A leap into the unknown
		However, this brief half-year period between the local and general elections is vital for both the winners and losers of the local polls, as it could further tempt Lithuanians to test the untested parties or could serve as a warning for Lithuanians not to gamble with the same untested parties.
		Karbauskis said after the election that if the success of the local polls carry over to the parliamentary elections, the Farmers' Party will push to distance Lithuania from its European Union and World Trade Organisation membership bids, which are both, in Karbauskis words, disadvantageous for Lithuanian agriculture.
		Though they did drop from some 500 seats before the elections to 199 and third place, the showing is remarkably better than the low poll ratings showing them to be on the short end of the required five per cent barrier.
	www.ce-review.org /00/12/amber12.html (2845 words)

	Mr. DURBIN. - LITHUANIA Another Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement (Senate - March 13, 1997)
		Lithuania, for those who are not familiar, is a country of fewer than 4 million people.
		Ironically, it was this effort by the czars to Russify Lithuania which resulted in my being on the floor of the Senate today, because these efforts by the Russians led my mother's family to pick her up as a small girl and emigrate from Lithuania to the United States.
		If you visited Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania today, you would be hard pressed to suggest that any of these countries have any type of motive to expand their territory or to in any way jeopardize the future of Russia.
	www.fas.org /man/nato/congress/1997/s970313.htm (2886 words)

	CEDAW
		Elections to the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania are conducted according to two systems: half of the Seimas members are elected in the multi-mandate electorial districts (70), and the rest (71) in one-mandate electorial districts.
		If parents of a child are divorced, the child may acquire the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania upon a written request of one of the parents who has acquired the Lithuanian citizenship and with whom the child lives upon the decision of the court or with whom the child lives continually de facto.
		In the Republic of Lithuania education and its support at the national level is becoming one of the key principles in the realm of gender equality.
	www.un.int /lithuania/Report_CEDAW.html (11468 words)

	Politics of Lithuania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Lithuania takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Lithuania is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		The President of Lithuania is the head of state of the country, elected directly for a five-year term.
		The Prime Minister of Lithuania is the head of government of the country, appointed by the President and approved by the Seimas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Lithuania (1334 words)

	Global Insight // Same-day Analysis
		In what was billed as a victory for 'traditional' parties, the second round of voting in Lithuania's parliamentary elections has produced three strong blocs and renewed support for conservative, right-leaning parties, leaving the governing coalition in third place.
		Amidst a low turnout, the second round of Lithuania's legislative elections yesterday exposed a sustained decline in support for the governing parties, despite stable administration over the last four years.
		This was disappointing compared with the 2000 elections, and to counter this, the conservative parties embarked on a much more successful campaign strategy to appeal directly to voters, resulting in their eventual 43-seat victory.
	www.globalinsight.com /SDA/SDADetail1281.htm (985 words)

	LITHUANIA: parliamentary elections Seimas, 1992
		Elections were held for all the seats in Parliament following the premature dissolution of this body.
		General elections were previously held in February/March 1990, prior to Lithuania’s independence in September 1991.
		The 1992 general elections – the first since independence in September 1991 – were held under the terms of the new Electoral Law adopted in July 1992, which provided for a mixed system and run-off elections in constituencies where the required majority was not attained.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2189_92.htm (280 words)

	Lithuania : National Programmes for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights
		On 14 May 1993, the Republic of Lithuania became a member of the Council of Europe and on the same day it signed the European Convention on Human Rights which was ratified by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania on 27 April 1995 along with the Fourth, Seventh and Eleventh Protocols to the Convention.
		Lithuania made a great progress in further securing and increasing the stability of institutions ensuring democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect to national minorities as well the protection of their rights.
		Elections in Lithuania are democratic, they are based on the multi-party system; there are no complaints about any restrictions of election rights.
	www.ohchr.org /english/countries/coop/lithuania.htm (9190 words)

	Political Resources on the Net - Lithuania 1:3
		Elections of the President of the Republic of Lithuania 1997-1998
		Lithuania's Seimas Elections '96 by Kaunas University of Technology - Department of Public Administration
		Lithuania's Seimas Elections 2000 by Central Electoral Committee
	www.politicalresources.net /lithuania.htm (105 words)

	Central Europe Review - Lithuania: Changing the Rules at the Half
		It is a tool employed by some pseudo-democratic regimes to change the election rules on the brink of the vote itself, to better suit the interests of the ruling clan in light of the day's conditions.
		Though the parliamentary elections in Lithuania are due in early October, the campaign has been in full swing since the end of the local elections back in March.
		Lithuania's mixed parliamentary election system allocates 70 seats by proportional representation and 71 seats by direct constituency mandate.
	www.ce-review.org /00/27/huang27_lithuaniaopinion.html (1223 words)

	BBC News \| Monitoring \| Defeated Lithuanian election candidate calls for recount
		Vilnius, 5th January: Lawyer Arturas Paulauskas, who lost the presidential elections in Lithuania, said at a press conference on Monday [5th January] that, according to his sources, the vote-counting procedure had been violated and that he would insist on recounting the results of voting.
		He said in many countries election results are recounted if the margin is very narrow.
		Paulauskas added, however, that the presidential elections marked a new stage in the development of the state and of democracy in general.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/monitoring/44837.stm (285 words)

	Lithuania in the EU - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lithuania in the EU Lithuania is a member of the European Union
		2004-10-20 12:15:47 Lithuania is considering asking the European Union to allow it to extend the timetable for the closure of its ageing Soviet-built nuclear power plant at Ignalina, officials said Wednesday.
		Lithuania invites tenders for 100 million euro locomotive contract
	www.eubusiness.com /topics/Lithuania/index_html?b_start:int=80 (859 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe
		Lithuania, a parliamentary democracy, has one of the poorest, fastest-growing economies of the EU.
		Candidates are competing for all 141 seats in parliament, with 70 to be allocated to parties according to their share of the vote and 71 based on contests in geographic districts.
		Lithuania is one of 10 nations that joined the EU on May 1.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aWGbj.mX6Fp0&refer=europe (725 words)

	Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Elections - Lithuania
		Final report on the parliamentary elections in Lithuania, 20 October and 10 November 1996
		Preliminary statement on the second round of the parliamentary elections in Lithuania, 10 November 1996
		Preliminary statement on the first round of the parliamentary elections in Lithuania, 20 October 1996
	www.osce.org /odihr-elections/documents.html?lsi=true&limit=10?lsi=true&limit=10&grp=230 (134 words)

	Elections in Lithuania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections in Lithuania gives information on election and election results in Lithuania.
		Lithuania elects on national level a head of state -- the president -- and a legislature.
		Lithuania has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Lithuania (242 words)

	LITHUANIA: parliamentary elections Seimas, 1996
		Elections were held for all the seats in Parliament on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		Landsbergis, considered the hero of Lithuania's independence drive in 1991; and the Conservatives' allies - the Christian Democratic Party and the Centre Union.
		Only two of the 71 majority seats were won outright in the first round, with runoffs on 10 November being required for 65 others (new elections were to be held in the four remaining constituencies).
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2189_96.htm (362 words)

	Russian-born millionaire's party tops Lithuania poll among voter discontent
		In the first elections to be held for the 141-member parliament, the Seimas, since Lithuania joined the EU and NATO (news - web sites) earlier this year, Viktor Uspaskich's opposition Labour Party captured 29 percent of the votes -- gaining 23 seats.
		The elections' final results will be known only in two weeks' time when a second round of voting will be held in 66 local constituencies where no candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote.
		Labour are in a strong position for the second round, fielding nearly 50 candidates for the 66 seats, and Uspaskich already won his mandate in Kedainiai, 120 kilometres (75 miles) west of Vilnius, convincingly.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1241383/posts (726 words)

	BHHRG
		Turnout during the last municipal elections in 2003 was 52 per cent.
		Paksas, 50, a former mayor of Vilnius, was elected president of Lithuania in 2003.
		Capitalizing on rural disaffection, the party swept to victory in national elections in 2004, with Uspaskich becoming economy minister.
	www.bhhrg.org /mediaDetails.asp?ArticleID=1610 (469 words)

	Russian Millionaire’s Labor Party Wins Lithuania Parliamentary Elections - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Labor Party took 30 percent of yesterday’s vote, the Election Commission in Vilnius said, based on ballots from 75 percent of polling stations.
		Uspaskich was born in Siberia and came to Lithuania in 1985 to manage the construction of a natural gas pipeline.
		He later worked as an intermediary between the government of newly independent Lithuania and OAO Gazprom, the worlds biggest natural gas producer, to arrange payment for gas supplies to the country.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/10/11/lithuan.shtml (1187 words)

	Turnout Low in Round 2 of Lithuanian Parliamentary Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Election officials said that one hour before voting ended Sunday, just 31 percent of Lithuania's 2.4 million voters had cast ballots.
		That was a drop from the 37 percent pre-closing turnout in first-round elections two weeks ago.
		Lithuania's ruling left-of-center coalition, which won 19 seats, and conservatives agreed to work together against the pro-Moscow Laborites in the second round.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2004-10/2004-10-24-voa36.cfm (217 words)

	Central Europe Review: Lithuania's Loons Take off (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Following the 19 March local elections in Lithuania, political analysts and politicians alike focused their attention on the leftward shift in popular support and the spectacular success of the centre-left New Alliance (Social Liberals).
		However, with the election of radical campaigner Vytautas Šustauskas as mayor of second city Kaunas on 13 April, the country's political concerns lie elsewhere, namely, with the success of radical and fringe movements in Lithuania's elections.
		The local elections proved them wrong, and some fear that the extra emphasis now placed on denouncing Šustauskas by the political establishment could backfire, as its poll ratings continue to fall over Lithuania's protracted recession.
	www.tol.cz /look/TOL/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=14&NrIssue=11&NrSection=4&NrArticle=13792 (756 words)

	Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
		The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented.
		Adam Carr's Electoral Archive has complete (ie, seat by seat) federal elections statistics from 1901 (federation) to the present, and statistics for all Australian state elections since 1990.
		Elections New Zealand is the website for the Electoral Enrolment Centre, Chief Electoral Office and the Electoral Commission, and has election results
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /election.htm (1226 words)

	Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lithuania's international commitments as regards the protection of human rights as one of the main criteria of the plan
		The problem in relation to the application of international agreements in Lithuania is also the fact that not all the international agreements, to which Lithuania is a signatory, have been officially translated into the official language and duly published in the Official Gazette “Valstybės inios”.
		Action: To prepare a measures plan for the participation of the Republic of Lithuania in the European Union employment policy coordination and coordination of the employment strategy of the Republic of Lithuania with the European Union employment policy guidelines in the light of the EU PHARE Twinning Project, and start its implementation.
	www.unhchr.ch /html/menu2/Lithuania.htm (6248 words)

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