Legal status of national minorities – comparative study

Situation of national minorities is analyzed in this final work. Most of modern world states are homogeneous no more for a long time already. That also includes Lithuanian Republic, where there is about 20 per cent of society of non Lithuanian nationality people. The most national minorities in Lithuania and neighbor countries of Latvia and Poland are Russian, Pole, Byelorussian and representatives of other national groups. That is why it is very important those countries to be equally vouched with laws to all citizenry and that effective security policy of national minorities would have been also pursued. The main problem of national minorities is that all legislators often try to delay the enactment of new laws and some adequate institutions are working not so effectively, when political, economical and social conditions change. It is very hard for national minorities to protect one’s own rights, because it’s difficult to prove the fact of discrimination, moreover, courts are tended to explain the rules, which vouches rights and freedoms, constrictively. The main purpose of this comparison research was to reveal the legal status of present national minorities in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, to compare enacted rules of those states, which regulate the questions of national minorities and main problems that appear. Finally, the goal was to give recommendations on law and other rules corrections, which could solve those problems. After analyzing the rules of national minorities in neighborhood of Latvia and Poland, we could make a conclusion, that the status of Lithuania’s national minorities is fairly regulated by laws, however, there are areas, where it is necessary to fix, improve and initiate new projects of deeds, in order the status of national minorities to be moved on ahead in our society