The former priest and current religion scholar in Duke University, North Carolina, remembers her childhood in 1990s Vilnius – the time when her Russian surname suddenly became a problem.

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This episode is a part of the series Rethinking Lithuania focusing on people who initiate progressive changes in Lithuanian society, despite not living here physically.

Rethinking Lithuania project was made during the class of professor Elizabeth Spiers at Studio 20, NYU.

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