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 European Humanities University facts

• Following its forced closure by the Belarusian authorities in 2004, EHU relocated to Vilnius (Lithuania) and thus continues its operations as a private university
• EHU offers high-residence and low-residence undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate degree programs in the field of humanities and social sciences
• University has been headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, since authorities expelled it from Belarus in 2004
• The university intends to return to Minsk
• From 1992 to 2004 EHU was a non-state establishment of undergraduate and post-graduate education in Belarus
• In 2004, due to government opposition, EHU was forced to terminate its activities in Belarus
• However, thanks to political, administrative, and financial support from the European Union, the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Governments of Lithuania, other European countries, and the United States, NGOs and foundations like MacArthur Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and others, EHU resumed its operation in Vilnius, Lithuania and opened bachelor's and master's degree programs for Belarusian students in autumn 2005
• In March 2006 the Government of Lithuania granted EHU the official status of a Lithuanian university
• After the mass protests of the Belarusian presidential election of 2010, many EHU students and teachers were imprisoned by the KGB
• The university said it would work with students to help them in their education despite the circumstances