Lithuanians
Lithuanians (Lithuanian: lietuviai, singular lietuvis/lietuvė) are a Baltic ethnic group. They are native to Lithuania, where they number around 2,561,300 people. Another million or more make up the Lithuanian diaspora, largely found in countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Russia, and Canada. Their native language is Lithuanian, one of only two surviving members of the Baltic language family. According to the census conducted in 2001, 83.45% of the population of Lithuania identified themselves as Lithuanians, 6.74% as Poles, 6.31% as Russians, 1.23% as Belarusians, and 2.27% as members of other ethnic groups. Most Lithuanians belong to the …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English
After World War II displaced more than sixty million people, Cold War politics opened global eyes and wallets to European displaced persons. The postwar experiences of more than three million …
separated by their nationality – Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Russians, Belarusians, Jews, Yugoslavs, Czechs … numerically significant groups – and Germans, Lithuanians, Russians, and Czechs.10 The necessity to add …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 26 July 2022 English
Much of today’s international order can be traced to the experimentations with governance that occurred in central Europe immediately after World War I. And though Western governments did not bring …
mention Polish attacks against Ukrainians and Lithuanians, among others, is also outlined in this book …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2022 English
Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have brought scholarly and public attention to Ukraine’s borders. Making Ukraine aims to investigate the various …
identified themselves as “Russians,” “Catholics,” “Lithuanians,” or – most prominently – simply as “locals” …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 May 2022 English
The first comprehensive account of the making of Ukraine’s borders during the twentieth century. Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have brought …
identified themselves as “Russians,” “Catholics,” “Lithuanians,” or – most prominently – simply as “locals” …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2021 English
The Precarious Lives of Syrians reveals the vulnerability and insecurity that Syrian refugees confront in Turkey, including their socio-legal status, living conditions, and mobility. Drawing on legal and scholarly materials, …
(including Jews, Balts, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Serbians, Ukrainians, and Yugoslavs) …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2021 English
For decades, Ukrainian contacts with the outside world were minimal, impeded by politics, ideology, and geography. But prior to the Soviet period the country enjoyed diverse exchanges with, on the …
(Ten Fragments on the Manners of the Tatars, Lithuanians, and Muscovites), was printed in Basil in 1615 …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 10 December 2020 English
Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709), hetman of the Zaporozhian Host in what is now Ukraine, is a controversial figure, famous for abandoning his allegiance to Tsar Peter I and joining Charles XII's …
Throughout November and December 1686 the Poles and Lithuanians doggedly insisted on “punishment” and even “execution …
desLibris · 6 August 2019 English
The public should be given the necessary tools to enhance their ability to consume media with a crit- ical eye, to check facts, and question the platforms that promote and …
activity during the 2019-2020 election cycle.” Lithuanians went to the polls in May 2019 to find a successor …
MLI: Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 6 August 2019 English
Referring to the May 2019 European elections, Mark Galeotti, a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, warned that the Kremlin would focus on “exploiting the cam- paigns …
activity during the 2019-2020 election cycle.” Lithuanians went to the polls in May 2019 to find a successor …
MLI: Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 6 August 2019 English
Referring to the May 2019 European elections, Mark Galeotti, a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, warned that the Kremlin would focus on “exploiting the cam- paigns …
activity during the 2019-2020 election cycle.” Lithuanians went to the polls in May 2019 to find a successor …
