During the discussion between students and EU diplomats at the European Humanities University on 25 July in Vilnius, the Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrius Krivas said that restrictive measures against Belarus were effective, because they did not allow the Belarusian authorities to ignore and forget the EU demand to release and rehabilitate all political prisoners, and to improve the human rights situation and democracy in the country.

Who is Edward Snowden anyways? The whole world asks this question when looking at the weird adventures of the most famous contemporary refugee. Recently, he became the 'resident' of the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The situation reminds us of the movie's 'Terminal' script where Tom Hanks, who is playing an immigrant from fictitious Central European country Krakozhia, settles down in New York's JFK airport's arrival zone because his documents are invalidated. The character is deprived of the right to leave the airport. The similarities end here though because the case of E. Snowden is not a movie.

The Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a son on Monday, the third in line to the throne, a baby destined to be the 43rd monarch since William the Conqueror obtained the English crown in 1066.

'At 3 am in the morning Ukrainians started mass massacres at all the villages and colonies. The massacres were organized in a way that all the Poles would be killed in the villages inhabited by Ukrainians. It is important to note that Ukrainians did such killings during their festivities. Axes were specifically attacked to long handles and Ukrainians would burst into Polish houses and kill everybody - men, women, elders, children who were torn or taken on their hands or legs and their heads were beaten to the posts. They searched all the Polish buildings, gardens, all the corners. If they found hiding people, they killed them.' (From Bolesław Dolecki, one of the survivors, letters).