Can't blame ya. What with Russian government deciding to become terrorists.

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I can't really comment on bussiness side of things in modern Lithuania. Haven't lived there for 12 years and things most certainly changed.

But 12 years ago knowing Russian was a massive boon for finding jobs in Lithuania it self. Even more so if you knew both English and Russian.

Just fly drones with banners sayiong to follow drones to surrender XD.

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Worked at elast once when a soldier surrendered to a drone which had then proceeded to lead him to ukrainian surrender point.

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Imagine seeing a guy with hands up following a drone.

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Truly we live in the 21st century.

Ukraine is offering those who surrender an excuse of them being taken prisoner in official dealings with Russia. You can also request to not be part of prisoner swap.

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Bring one of the Russian vehicles, and you also get monetary payment. Think citizenship is on the cards as well.

Well duh, Lithuanian and LAtvian are of the same baltic family but languages are so differen't, it is impossible to communicate. A russian and Polish have better understanding of each other language than Two Baltics. Add in, a bunch of nordics and you must speak english out of politness.

This is nothing new. Lithuania has been phasing out Russian since the later half of the first decade of 21st century.

And from 2015 you can no longer even fill out forms in Lithuania in russian language.

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To pick other foreign languages also requires more teachers speaking those other languages. I hope government is prepared to dish out money for salaries to encourage young people to stay and become new generation of teachers, instead of running away to other foreign countries.

Russia could in theory attack anyway justifying supression and ethnic cleansing of ethnic minorities in Lithuania.

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That aside, Lithuania is a member of NATO and Russia is being busy losing to Ukraine. Kinda doubt Lithuania at this point has any reason to fear an invasion.

If you want to enjoy literature, then chosing Russian isn't a bad choice. they have plenty of well known and pretty good authors and books. Let's not pretend that just because Russia is currently being a terrorist state, that their long history of literature is suddenly not worth reading or is inferior to lets say French or German.

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It's weird that you say let's forget politics and war and then bring politics in describing Russia.

Pretty sure international law prohibits that. Heck, the only Lithuanians with dual citizenship are foreigners who took Lithuanian as second citizenship. Lithuanian constitution prohibits us from taking second citizenship.

You are not the only person in Lithuania. Maybe someone else wants to learn it. Primarily a small percentage of ethnic russian and polish families.

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I'm not sure how old you are, but choosing russian in 90ies and up to 2010 was done because knowing russian was better than not knowing it since it was akin to second language and was useful at job hunting.

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These days it's less useful due to russian warmongering cutting up bussiness ties but the main problem is also that Lithuania simply doesn't have enough teachers of other languages as compared to russian. Though given time and with the nature of how things go, that will change in the future as more and more youth focuses on other foreign languages and replaces aging teachers.

Lithuania has began phasing out russian years ago. At this point this has little to do with russian playbook and is just an excuse to finally finish the job.

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That being said, you are right about Russian playbook. Which is why Lithuania refused Kaliningrad when it was offered it. Really don't want your population to jump from less than 8% ethnic russians to around 30% in one go.