Irena Veisaite has passed away at the age of 92, her friend and former student
Marius Mikajalunas has on Friday confirmed it to BN, cites
LETA.
According to media reports, Veisaite contracted the coronavirus. She was a wonderful, very considerate and inquisitive person who cared about everything that s going on in the world and Lithuania. She loved people very much, was open to everyone, respected everyone and would talk to everyone. She was a person who brought light to everyone, Mikalajunas said.
Veisaite was born into a Jewish family in Lithuania s second-largest city of Kaunas in 1928. She was a prisoner of the Kaunas ghetto during WWII and was hidden and saved from the Holocaust by Lithuanian friends.
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How racist is Germany s police force?
As the state interior minister, Caffier oversaw the police and intelligence agencies conducting an investigation into the extreme-right group.
In his statement Tuesday, Caffier flatly denied any links to right-wing extremists and condemned unrestrained reporting into the case. He said he was resigning to protect my family, the people around me and my staff and to avert damage from the government.
Who is Lorenz Caffier?
Caffier, 65, had served as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania interior minister for 14 years and was the oldest sitting politician in that position. He also served as the leader of the center-right CDU party in the northeastern German state from 2009 to 2017.
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Celebrating Human Rights Day in Uzbekistan
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, together with the National Human Rights Centre of Uzbekistan, co-hosted a blended event to mark Human Rights Day. The International Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December, the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
The event in Tashkent was attended by more than 140 participants with some of them attending in person and some online. Representatives of the Parliament, state bodies, youth and civil society, as well as representatives of the diplomatic corps and international organizations took part in the meeting. Discussions focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to build back better by ensuring that human rights are central to recovery efforts, which was the main theme of this year s Human Rights Day.
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The Argentinean-born scientist has set himself ambitious goals in the spirit of the academy s mission to promote science and encourage interdisciplinary exchange: Saxony offers a large number of small and medium-sized companies with an enormous potential for innovation. I would like to support them with new developments and findings from the basic science. The Academy will enable me to come into contact with outstanding scientists in the region, exchange ideas and realize new projects and cooperations. I am looking forward to the future! At the same time, membership in the Central German Scholarly Society, founded in 1846 as the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences and now steeped in tradition, is a very special distinction for him: I have been living in Saxony for twelve years now. This award is not only a recognition of my scientific work. It is a special honor for me as a foreign scientist to receive this endorsement from my colleagues .