government officials and entrepreneurs, which also contradicts the Article 10 of the Framework Convention. The country has terminated the Law on National Minorities, and the Seimas has not extended it, as had been done previously. After the abolition of the Law "On National Minorities" (from 11.23.1989) in 2009, which is contrary to the Framework Convention which forbids to degrade the legal status of national minorities, the new law has not yet been adopted. In 2009, the Government abolished the Department of Immigration and National Minorities, and its functions were transferred to a Department of Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. Significantly diminished the number of opportunities for the national minorities to obtain information in their native language. Over the past 20 years the circulation of Russian-language print media decreased by 80%, the duration of television programs in Russian on the public television channels – by 70%. However, this is not the only evidence of purposeful limitation of rights and forced assimilation of national minorities. The new wording of the Education Act does not correspond to a number of regulations and documents of the OSCE, in its adoption were not taken into account the opinions of Russian and Polish communities that had collected more than 60 000 signatures against it prior to the voting in the Seimas. Thus, the Charter of Paris for a New Europe from 21.11.1990 says that the OSCE member States undertake to improve the situation of minorities (and not worsen it), and the document of the Copenhagen Conference on the Human Dimension of the OSCE (29.06.1990) in Art. 33 with the purpose of such protection, they "take measures after due consultations, including contacts with organizations or associations of such minorities". In addition, it should be noted that in its comments on the adoption of amendments to the Education Act, the representatives of the authorities of Lithuania referred to the statistics that does not relate directly to the students of schools of national minorities. The new edition of the Law "On Education", which came into effect on 1 September 2011 does not define the concept of "national minority schools".