2013 01 16

Poland's Lithuanian-language magazine Aušra under threat of termination

A demand by a Polish ministry to return part of a grant may terminate publishing of a semimonthly Lithuanian-language magazine Aušra that has been in circulation for more than 50 years.

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According to Lietuvos Žinios daily, the magazine is in danger after Poland's Ministry of Administration and Digitization decided that the magazine should pay back some of the 2001 grant – about 13,400 litas (EUR 3,900).

Irena Gasperavičiūtė, Aušra's editor-in-chief, says the demand is due to a revision in the interpretation of legal acts, as income received from subscription is now treated as part of the grant.