National communities of Lithuania submitted in 2012, more than 180 projects in the field of culture, reported today, 30 January BakuToday in the press centre of culture of Lithuania.
Of the 103 project provided non-governmental organizations, 77-national cultural centres, religious associations, foundations, scientific organization.
Projects aimed at combating racism, discrimination on the basis of nationality, to preserve the cultural identity of peoples living in Lithuania, the Organization for children and young people travel to their historical homeland, develop a network of national Sunday schools, ethnographic activities, the establishment of museums.
The head of the Culture Commission, composed of representatives of the Council for national minorities, in the near future will identify projects for which would be granted partial public funding. Proponents of other projects to either seek private sponsors, or postpone the implementation of ideas until better times.
As previously reported BakuToday, in the Lithuanian Council of national minorities are constant squabbles between representatives of the traditional minority-the Polish, Russian, Belarusian communities and communities formed in Lithuania during the Soviet period, when the population was extremely high and often obuslavlivalas′ the production or the defence of necessity. Both were Ukrainian, Moldavian, Romanian, Estonian and other communities.
