Lithuania

Lithuania is in the middle of the Europe( the center of Europe is not far from capital Vilnius), near the Baltic Sea. Lithuania has boeders with Latvia, Russia, White Russia and Poland.
There are about 3.7 million inhabitants in Lithuania and about 1.3 million lithuanians in other states. Slightly more than four-fifths of the people are Lithuanian. Russians and Poles are the two largest minority groups, but there are also other minority groups of Belarusians and Ukrainians who live in Lithuania. All minorities have full citizenship rights but rather in the paper only, because most of minority people aren’t very desirable everywhere.
Lithuanian is one of the oldest Indo-European languages still in everyday use. It belongs to the Baltic language group along with Latvian and some other languages such as Yatvangian and Old Prussian. Its rules of grammar are similar to those of Sanskrit and Homeric Greek. The formation of Standard Lithuanian was not completed until the 19th century because Polish (and sometimes other languages) had been used as the state language from the 13th century. By the 17th century the Lithuanian language survived only among rural peasants because urban people spoke Polish. They thought that lithuanian language is language for poor people and it is humiliating to speak lithuanian. After 1795, when Lithuania and Poland ceased to exist, Russian was introduced and encouraged among Lithuanians. When Lithuanian was later revived, four main dialects evolved out of the many that had existed before. As a result of the period of Soviet domination, most Lithuanians can speak Russian(rather older people), and many are now learning English.
A new constitution went into effect in 1992. The president, who is directly elected for a five-year term, is head of state. Now the President of Lithuania is Valdas Adamkus. A prime minister heads the legislature, called the...

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