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Kondolencje dla wszystkich Polaków.

Lithuanian government (I mean the current cabinet of ministers and mostly all ruling conservative-christian democrat party apart from few extremist MPs) is no way anti-Polish. Quite the opposite. I know some ministers and conservative MPs personally, so, I guess, I can tell this with confidence.

The situation with our Sejm (which shamelessly made the notorious decision of not approving new legislation extending the right to local Polish of writing their names in Polish language) is more complicated and hard to explain, though. It is combination of stupid nationalism, incompetence and wish of parliament opposition to make things more complicated for the government. I hate to think what kind of message Lithuania sent to Mr. Kaczyński and Polish people just before the terrible thing has happened.

Three days of mourning is not a part of diplomatic protocol - it is a true sign of Lithuanian solidarity with Poland. Most of the people here are touched by the tragedy very deeply and many of them see this loss as their own too.