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"We Will Not Tolerate": in Vilnius, a Belarusian Who Refused to Speak Lithuanian Was Fired.

The former driver of the company Vilniaus viešasis transportas, a Belarusian citizen, Andrei Spider, was dismissed from his job, as reported in his Facebook account and issued an order to terminate the employment contract. Mayor Vilnius Valdas Benkunskas, in his profile, shared the news about the dismissal of Belarusians and wrote: "Contempt to our national language and people — we will not tolerate it."

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The former driver of the company Vilniaus viešasis transportas, a Belarusian citizen, Andrei Spider, was dismissed from his job, as reported in his Facebook account and issued an order to terminate the employment contract. Mayor Vilnius Valdas Benkunskas, in his profile, shared the news about the dismissal of Belarusians and wrote: "Contempt to our national language and people — we will not tolerate it."

·Vilnius, Lithuania
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In Kharkiv, a taxi driver was fined 5,100 hryvnias for refusing to serve a passenger in Ukrainian, according to RBC-Ukraine, citing a Facebook post by the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, Elena Ivanovska. He insulted the passenger and refused to speak the state language. The driver rudely refused to speak Ukrainian. Following an investigation, the Commissioner issued an administrative penalty under Article 188-52 of the Cod…

After a video of a Belarusian Vilnius public transport (VVT) employee filming a dispatcher and demanding her to speak went viral on the Internet... On the tv3.lt news portal you will find today's most important news, exclusive TV3 news video reports, stories of Lithuanian people and TV3 television video tu

·Vilnius, Lithuania
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His employment contract was terminated due to "gross violation of work duties."

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Радыё Свабода broke the news in on Monday, November 3, 2025.
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