VILNIUS - The Lithuanian State Language Commission has given the order for signs on routes to the Russian Kaliningrad enclave to show traditional Lithuanian place names. Official Russian names can be used also after Lithuanian names.Now highway signs in Lithuania will show the way to Karaliaucius (Kaliningrad), Tilze (Sovietsk), Gumbine (Gusev), Stalupenai (Nesterov), Ragaine (Nieman), Gastos (Slavsk). Danguole Mikuleniene, chairman of the commission, explained that traditional Lithuanian names are used also in transport information to name many places of the world. For example, Varsuva (W...
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