Adas Jakubauskas, 55, the new director of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania, vows to improve the center's international and internal communication and spread awareness on Lithuania's historic memory issues abroad.
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Adas Jakubauskas, 55, has been appointed director of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania on Thursday after 71 lawmakers voted in favor, 15 were against, eight lawmakers abstained and one voting ballot was damaged.
Lithuanian Tatars discussed Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis' proposal to construct a community building on the site of a former Tatar cemetery in Vilnius as they held their first-ever congress on Saturday.
Lietuvos Paštas (Lithuanian Post) is releasing on Friday a special postage stamp featuring Lithuania's Tatars.
The new chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Stanislav Shevchuk, is visiting Vilnius on Monday to meet with Lithuania's officials and discuss support to the Ukrainian legal system reform.
The Tatar community, which this year celebrates 620 years in Lithuania, hopes that the issues of recounting its history and construction of a mosque in Vilnius would finally get in motion.
