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The decrease was likely caused by expirations of temporary residence permits, as the number of their holders has decreased by 7,406 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":59368,"template":"","rubric":[15],"class_list":["post-170815","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Number of Belarusian expats in Lithuania continues to decrease | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 7, Pozirk. 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