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	Lithuania - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Lithuania borders on the Baltic Sea in the west, Latvia in the north, Belarus in the east and southeast, Poland in the south, and the Kaliningrad oblast (a Russian exclave; formerly East Prussia) in the southwest.
		In 1992, the Democratic Labor (formerly the Communist) party defeated Sajudis, and Algirdas Brazauskas, a former Communist, was elected president in 1993.
		Lithuania is at the centre and crossroads of Europe.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-lithuania.html (1293 words)

	Liberalism worldwide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		the Liberal Democratic Party (Russia) and the Liberal Democratic Party (Lithuania).
		Smaller liberal parties are Spirit, allied with the social democrats, and Vivant, allied to the VLD.
		The so-called Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is not at all liberal; it is a nationalist, right-wing populist party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_parties (5736 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Lithuania reluctantly consented to the maximum seven-year restriction on labor movement and did not obtain the right to impose this restriction reciprocally on other EU countries, as have some other candidate countries.
		Lithuania is under strong pressure from the EU to close its Ignalina nuclear power plant, which supplies over 75 percent of Lithuania's electricity and provides some 4,000 jobs to an economically depressed region.
		Lithuania has already committed itself to closing one of the two reactors by 2005 and is being urged to commit to shutting down the second by 2009.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol11num1_2/constitutionwatch/lithuania.html (2436 words)

	Lithuania (08/06)
		Urbanization increased from 39% in 1959 to 68% in 1989.
		Lithuania pegged its national currency, the litas, to the euro on February 2, 2002 at the rate of LTL 3.4528 for EUR 1.
		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 (5213 words)

	Central Europe Review - Falling Down: The decline of liberalism in CEE
		The support of Polish liberal parties was also clearly higher than the West European average of 12.5 per cent, and the second attempt at forming a liberal party in Slovakia gave liberalism a new chance.
		This is not surprising since liberal parties are perceived as advocates of the free market and economic reforms, and therefore big business and small entrepreneurs are interested in supporting the liberal representatives of their interests.
		If the liberal parties of the region are able to adapt to the ongoing changes and to exploit the peculiarities of political competition, they can improve their prospects and return to the high time of the early 1990s.
	www.ce-review.org /00/31/lang31.html (2374 words)

	Lithuania Country brief - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		Lithuania was the first Baltic country to declare the restoration of its independence from the Soviet Union on 11 March 1990, demanding the withdrawal of Soviet forces from the country.
		Lithuania was accepted as one of ten new members for accession to the EU at the Brussels summit in October 2002.
		Lithuania is concerned about energy dependency on Russia and has, together with the other Baltic states and former Soviet satellite states, called on the EU to conclude a bilateral agreement on energy with Russia.
	www.dfat.gov.au /geo/lithuania/country_brief_lithuania.html (1813 words)

	MapUp.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Lithuania's major warm-water port of Klaipeda lies at the narrow mouth of Kursiu Gulf, a shallow lagoon extending south to Kaliningrad.
		The Seimas (parliament) of Lithuania adopted a constitution on August 1, 1922, declaring Lithuania a parliamentary republic, and in 1923 Lithuania annexed the Klaipeda region, the northern part of Lithuania Minor.
		Lithuania, a relatively new NATO member, fully endorses the concept of "collective defense." National policy recognizes the primacy of NATO as the guarantor of security in Europe.
	mapup.com /europe/lithuania.html (4109 words)

	Lithuania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Lithuania is a member of the European Union; Russia, Germany, Latvia, and Poland are the main trading partners.
		Witowt, a cousin of Ladislaus II, ruled Lithuania independently (1392–1430) and brought it to the height of its power and expansion.
		During the German occupation (1941–44) of Lithuania in World War II, the considerable Jewish minority was largely exterminated.
	www.bartleby.com /65/li/Lithuania.html (1175 words)

	Lithuania Government Information
		In July 2001, the center-left New Union Party forged an alliance with the left-wing Social Democratic Party and formed a new cabinet under former President Algirdas Brazauskas.
		Lithuania officially became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on March 29, 2004 after depositing its instruments of treaty ratification in Washington, DC.
		Lithuania maintains an embassy in the United States at 2622 - 16th Street, Washington DC, 20009, tel: (202) 234-5860.
	www.traveldocs.com /lt/govern.htm (544 words)

	The Liberal Party...
		For the liberal society is a free society, and it is at the same time and for that reason a strong society.
		Assembly believes that the Party’s commitment to a written constitution requires the use of referenda to amend such a constitution and accordingly resolves to amend the statement to read “The Liberal Party is opposed to the use of referenda except for determination of constitutional changes”.
		Liberal Party members opposed the merger of the Liberal and Social Democrat parties in 1988, believing it to be an inadequate vehicle for promoting genuine Liberalism.
	www.liberal.motime.com (4884 words)

	Lithuania : History
		With the rise of the medieval lords in adjacent Prussia and Russia, Lithuania was constantly subject to invasion and attempted conquest.
		As a result, the Democratic Labor party (DLP; the former Communist party of Lithuania) won a majority of seats in the Seimas in February 1992, and in November 1992 Algirdas Brazauskas, the DLP leader, was elected president with 60 percent of the vote.
		Lithuania and Belarus signed a mutual friendship treaty in February and in the same month Lithuania concluded a free-trade agreement with Ukraine.
	www2.omnitel.net /ramunas/Lietuva/lt_history.shtml (1918 words)

	The End of Career - Pravda.Ru
		The fact did not influence the wish of the electorate to prefer the younger liberal democratic leader (Paksas was 46 during the presidential election) to an aged president.
		The Lithuania special services insist that heads of several companies (they mention the names of Anzori Aksentyev, the actual head of the 21st Century Company, and Yury Borisov, the Avia Baltica company president) allegedly attempted to use Lithuania as a basis for illegal traffic in weapons, drugs and for money laundering.
		As far as liberal democrats make up the minority in the parliament they will not be able to hamper this resignations if it is to happen.
	english.pravda.ru /world/20/92/372/11473_lithuania.html (1243 words)

	Order and Justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Almost all traditional parties, except few smaller political groups (National Progress party of Lithuania, and Liberty League of Lithuania including), more or less supported the opposing campaign, what resulted using of strong administrative resource against the new party, that especially increased, when the leader of the party Rolandas Paksas won the presidential election of 2003.
		Along with it Liberal Democrats maintained elements of a populist party, with motley and challenging political campaigns, although some observers consider, that controversy of the impeachment decreased its chances in political stage.
		The member of the European Parliament from the Lithuanian Liberal Democratic party is Rolandas Pavilionis, a former rector of Vilnius University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Lithuania) (769 words)

	Internal Front Groups: Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the 'Centrist Bloc'
		A few weeks after this, the founding congress of the Liberal Democratic Party was held, an event that was announced on the front pages of all major Soviet newspapers on April 1, 1990, in marked contrast to the scant media attention that had accompanied the prior foundings of other parties.
		The chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party was Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who, in contrast to the leaders of the other parties, was a political unknown.
		In December 1991, as the USSR was collapsing, the phony nature of Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party was officially confirmed.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /russia_folder/pcw_era/sect_07.htm (2368 words)

	Pravda.RU:Zhirinovsky Becomes Lithuania President
		At that, Paksas with the votes of 56% voters is 12% ahead of former president of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus.
		As soon as Paksas lost the opportunity to be put forward as a candidate to the presidential post from the Liberal party, together with his followers he abandoned the liberal faction and created Lithuania's liberal-democratic party at the beginning of March 2002.
		PRAVDA.Ru Lithuania : To be or not to be in NATO
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2003/01/06/41680_.html (562 words)

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		The governing left-wing coalition "Working for Lithuania" of the Social Democrat and Social Liberal parties, led by Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas and parliamentary Speaker Arturas Paulauskas, was predicted to come in second, followed by the Homeland Union and the Liberal Centre Union.
		His party's message was welcomed in rural areas, where people felt they had been left behind by surging prosperity in the cities, and among many urban voters who declared corruption to be their number one concern.
		The coalition "Working for Lithuania" was second, gaining slightly more than 20 per cent of the vote for 16 of the seats elected proportionally and 3 seats in the majority system, while the Homeland Union obtained nearly 15 per cent winning 11 seats in the nationwide constituency.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2189_E.htm (637 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Petar Gosev and Stojan Andov, leaders of the Democratic Party and the Liberal Party, have decided to merge their formations into "a strong [party] in the center," Nova Makedonija reported on 29 January.
		Meanwhile, Veljko Dzakula, head of the Serbian Democratic Forum, the organization that represents the interests of Croatian Serbs, said on 28 January that the situation of Serbs in Croatia has deteriorated, AFP reported.
		Leaders of the Party of Romanian National Unity (PUNR) and the Greater Romania Party (PRM), in separate meetings with President Emil Constantinescu on 28 January, have demanded that Intelligence Service director Virgil Magureanu be dismissed, Romanian media reported.
	www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/97-01/jan29.omri (2293 words)

	Seven Labor MPs break from party, increase ruling coalition’s vulnerability
		VILNIUS - Lithuania’s ever-fluid political climate lived up to its reputation this week after seven MPs from the Labor Party split from the faction to create their own group in Parliament.
		The deputies cited dissatisfaction with party management, particularly chairman and founder Viktor Uspaskich, as the reason for the split.
		The seven MPs that decided to withdraw from the Labor Party’s faction and from the party are Algirdas Ivanauskas, Romas Venclovas, Rimvydas Turcinskas, Juozas Jarusevicius, Jonas Lionginas, Vladimir Orechov, Andrius Baranauskas.
	www.baltictimes.com /news/articles/15266 (635 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		Zhirinovsky's party led with 23.5 percent of the vote, followed by the main pro-Yeltsin bloc, Russia's Choice, with 14.8 percent.
		In the last year, voters in Poland, Lithuania, and the regions of the former East Germany turned to the left, to Communists and Social Democrats, for protection against an aggressive and not always civilized capitalism.
		None of the parties whose positions on many issues could be called social democratic was energetic and decisive enough to stake out this key vacant spot on the Russian political spectrum.
	www.aei.org /publications/pubID.15359,filter.all/pub_detail.asp (967 words)

	Parties and Elections in Europe
		The leadership of the pro-government "Communist Party of Belarus (KPB)" proclaimed a merger with the opposition "Communists' Party of Belarus (PKB)".
		The PKB leadership slammed the merger conference, describing it as a government-orchestrated move to liquidate the influential opposition party [July].
		The party federation "Rose in the Fist (RnP)" between the "Italian Radicals (RI)" and the "Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI)" joined the center-left electoral alliance "The Union (L'UNIONE)" led by former Prime Minister Romano Prodi [January].
	www.parties-and-elections.de /news.html (355 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		The opposition delegation consists of Anatol Lyabedzka and Yaraslaw Ramanchuk of the United Civic Party, and Syarhey Haydukevich of the Liberal Democratic Party.
		The statement notes that members of democratic, nongovernmental organizations were not included on election commissions, and that 30-40 percent of opposition nominees were denied registration as candidates.
		The Social Democratic Party's (CSSD) parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies on 19 February rallied behind the CSSD leadership's choice of philosopher and former Education Minister Jan Sokol as the party's candidate in the 28 February presidential vote, CTK reported (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 18 February 2002).
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/02/3-CEE/cee-200203.asp?po=y (2485 words)

	AllRefer.com - Japan - The Liberal Democratic Party in National Elections \| Japanese Information Resource
		Following the three occasions when the LDP found itself a handful of seats shy of a majority, it was obliged to form alliances with conservative independents and the breakaway New Liberal Club.
		In the July 18, 1993, lower house elections, the LDP fell so far short of a majority that it was unable to form a government.
		The political crisis of 1988-89 was testimony to both the party's strength and its weakness.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/japan/japan233.html (564 words)

	Political Resources on the Net - Lithuania 1:3
		Elections of the President of the Republic of Lithuania 1997-1998
		Lithuania's Seimas Elections 2000 by Central Electoral Committee
		Lietuvos partija "Socialdemokratija 2000" Lithuanian Party Social Democracy 2000
	www.politicalresources.net /lithuania.htm (105 words)

	CNN.com - World News: Election Watch
		Rolandas PAKSAS of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won the presidency with 54.9% of the votes while independent candidate Valdas ADAMKUS secured 45.1%.
		On April 6, members of the Seimas voted to remove President Rolandas PAKSAS from the presidency on grounds that he divulged official secrets, granted citizenship to a foreigner in exchange for funding, and exerted unlawful influence on the decisions of private businesses.
		Lithuania officially became a member of the European Union on May 1, 2004.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/europe/lithuania4.html (239 words)

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		Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
		Liberal Democrat Group of the Council of Europe (LDR)
		Liberal Party of the Philippines (LP) - Philippines
	www.liberal-international.org /members.asp?ia_id=50 (94 words)

	Russian Liberal Democratic Party to publish a book in English for NATO servicemen - Russian News - REGNUM
		The party is going to publish a book for Russian troops where it would tell them about the party and Russia’s position.
		As REGNUM reported earlier, first announcement of possible military exercises together with NATO troops in Nizhny Novgorod in Milino Garrison was announced by leader of the regional communists’ organization Nikolai Ryabov.
		He said the regional committee of the party was preparing a protest action, the first rally to be held on July 16.
	www.regnum.ru /english/669879.html (766 words)

	Lithuania
		Informally from 4 Jul 1569, constitutionally from 3 May 1791, Poland and Lithuania constituted the United Commonwealth of Two Nations; the Polish king also had the style of Grand Prince of Lithuania, and the two countries were governed together and were represented on the Diets.
		Although de jure the Polish Interrex only dealt with Poland during a vacancy in the monarchy (the Lithuanian Council of State [Lietuvos Ponu Taryba], chaired by the Grand Marshal [Lietuvos didysis marsalka] dealing with Lithuania), this is de facto a spurious distinction.
		The full style of Grand Princes of Lithuania (and Polish kings) from 1573 was (in official Latin): Dei Gratiae Rex Poloniae, Magnus Dux Lituaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masoviae, Samogithiae, Kiioviae, Volhyniae, Podoliae, Podlachiae, Livoniae, Smolensciae, Severiae, Czernichoviaeque.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Lithuania.htm (3645 words)

	Lithuania 2004 Legislative Election
		Union of Farmers and New Democratic Parties (VNDPS)
		Source: Electionworld.org /Elections around the World (Elections in Lithuania).
		# Source: Elections to the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania 2004.
	www.binghamton.edu /cdp/era/elections/lit04par.htm (46 words)

	Lithuania Government 2006 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Lithuania Government 2006 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics
		11 March 1990 (independence declared from Soviet Union); 6 September 1991 (Soviet Union recognizes Lithuania's independence)
		Independence Day, 16 February (1918); note - 16 February 1918 is the date Lithuania declared its independence from Soviet Russia and established its statehood; 11 March 1990 is the date it declared its independence from the Soviet Union
	www.theodora.com /wfbcurrent/lithuania/lithuania_government.html (301 words)

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