"These actions are a continuation of the targeted efforts of the Belarusian authorities to eliminate Lithuanian education in Belarus and a violation of bilateral agreements between Lithuania and Belarus and international conventions that establish the right of representatives of national minorities to study in their native language," writes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania.

The institution in the village of Pelyas, Voronivka district, became the first school in Belarus where education was conducted in the Lithuanian language.

The school was opened in 1992, in the last year more than 120 children studied there.

The Pyala secondary school, one of the two Lithuanian schools in Belarus, was inspected by the Ministry of Emergency Situations before the start of the academic year.

As stated by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the inspection revealed a number of violations, the school is closed until the "liquidation of remarks."

As the head of the main education department

Ruslan Abramchyk

said , in connection with the closing of the school, all its students - 40 children from Lidzka district and 74 from Voronausko - will be transferred to other schools according to their place of residence.

Naturally, education there will no longer be in Lithuanian.

24 teachers, 10 of whom are citizens of Lithuania, are offered a job in the territory of Voronezh region.

Another Lithuanian school on the territory of the Republic of Belarus works in Rymdyuny, Astravetsky District.

Earlier, Poland protested against the actions of Lukashenka's regime, the protest was connected with the destruction of a number of funerals of Home Army soldiers on the territory of Belarus.