Lithuania’s ‘culture wars’

May 21, 2009
By Darius J Ross

Lithuania’s newly elected head of state, Dalia Grybauskaite, is a morally upright woman who is fiercely loyal to kith and kin.  How can I know this with such ironclad certainty? I’m just applying the logic of a group of several dozen prominent Lithuanian linguists, academics, and culture vultures who caused a stir a couple of weeks ago by imploring lawmakers to rescind 2006 rules that allow women to use a maritally neutral surname suffix. By neutral I mean a surname that doesn’t divu ...

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