{"id":43807,"date":"2022-09-20T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T08:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/belarus-not-to-reopen-lithuanian-minority-school-lithuanian-official\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"belarus-not-to-reopen-lithuanian-minority-school-lithuanian-official","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43807\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus not to reopen Lithuanian minority school &#8211; Lithuanian official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>September 20, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>Belarusian authorities do not intend to reopen the Lithuanian-funded school in Pialesa, located in the Hrodna region\u2019s Voranava district, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/ru\/news\/politics\/vice-ministr-belarus-ne-razreshit-vozobnovit-obuchenie-v-litovskoj-shkole-v-pelese.d?id=91271647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span>Delfi<\/span><\/a> reported, citing Ram\u016bnas Skaud\u017eius, Lithuania&#8217;s deputy minister of education.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Belarusian fire safety inspectors ordered the school\u2019s closure in August over alleged breaches. Additional fire safety measures would require changes to the structure of the building.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The school principal appealed to court, but he was told that no matter how the lawsuit ended, no permission to resume instruction would be given, Skaud\u017eius said. He added that Lithuania&#8217;s foreign ministry was discussing efforts to recover&nbsp;the school property.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Rus\u0142an Abram\u010dyk, the Hrodna region\u2019s education chief, said earlier this year that the new Education Code requires all schools in Belarus to provide instruction in the official languages (Russian and Belarusian) from September 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Lithuanian foreign ministry criticized the decision as a violation of bilateral agreements between Lithuania and Belarus.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Funded by the Lithuanian government, the Pialesa school has provided instruction in Lithuanian since 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 20, BPN. Belarusian authorities do not intend to reopen the Lithuanian-funded school in Pialesa, located in the Hrodna region\u2019s Voranava district, Delfi reported, citing Ram\u016bnas Skaud\u017eius, Lithuania&#8217;s deputy minister of education. Belarusian fire safety inspectors ordered the school\u2019s closure in August over alleged breaches. Additional fire safety measures would require changes to the structure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[15],"class_list":["post-43807","articles","type-articles","status-publish","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>Belarus not to reopen Lithuanian minority school - Lithuanian official | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 20, BPN. 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