''Voruta'' is a Lithuanian weekly historical newspaper, founded in 1989 by Juozas Vercinkevičius. Gražina Jurgaitienė and Marius Vaišnys. ''Mano credo: daugiau autorių, daugiau nuomonių, daugiau įvykių'' (My Credo: more authors, more views, more events), "Voruta", No. 10 (484), 19 May 2001
/ref> Preparations for publishing Voruta started in 1988 and first trial issue was published in 1989.

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, Regina Žepkaitė,

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, Vincas Martinkėnas,

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, Nastazija Kairiūkštytė, Stasys Buchaveckas, Kęstutis Makariūnas, Antanas Suraučius, Juozas Vaina,

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, Evaldas Gečiauskas among other authors published their works in Voruta. Newspaper is named after

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, a mythical capital of the Lithuania established in the time of king

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in the 13th century.

Criticism

The newspaper has been noted for leaning towards nationalistic and anti-Polish bias, particularly in the early 1990s, Algis Kasperavičius,
Współcześni historycy litewscy o sprawie Wilna i stosunkach polsko-litewskich w latach 1918-1940 oraz zmiany w potocznej świadomości Litwinów'
', in ''Historycy polscy, litewscy i białoruscy wobec problemów XX wieku Historiografia polska, litewska i białoruska po 1989 roku'', Krzysztof Buchowski i Wojciech Śleszyński (ed.), Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, 2003 but later its tone changed to a more neutral one. Its past editors included the leader of the anti-Polish, nationalistic organization Vilnija,

. Stanisław Tarasiewicz
Litewski historyk oskarża Polskę o rewizjonizm granic, lecz zarazem ubolewa, że Polska nie chce zwrócić Niemcom swoich zachodnich ziem
infpol, 2008-11-07

References

External links

''Voruta'' online
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