Department of National Minorities Requests to Include the International Roma Genocide Day into the List of Remembrance Days

The Department requested the Committee of Human Rights of the Seimas to include the International Roma Genocide Day into the list of remembrance days. Europe commemorates Roma Genocide Remembrance Day on the 2nd of August.

Traditional Bread Festival

The 13th Bread Festival event took place in the House of National Minorities on the 1st of February 2019. The national minorities in Lithuania - Armenians, Byelorussians, Greeks, Karaites, Kazakhs, Latvians, Moldavians/Romanians, Russians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Germans and Lithuanians – presented their national bread to the audience in a creative way.

Two and a Half Hundred Thousand Euros for Promotion of Cultural Activity

The Department of National Minorities allocated partial funding for National Minorities’ Culture and Integration Centres following the recommendations of a Project Evaluation Commission. Overall amount from the State budget was 259 thousand Euros. The funding is to ensure successful project-related activity of the Centres in 2019.