The new law stipulates that a minimum of four hours of Lithuanian language per week should study the children in kindergartens, and in 2013 a nationwide equal exam on the state language was introduced for the graduates of both the Lithuanian schools and schools of national minorities. At the beginning of 2011-2012 academic year Russian schools faced the lack of a mechanism of implementation of new programs, and the acute shortage of methodological literature and textbooks for minority schools. In accordance with the approved plans of the local authorities to optimize educational institutions further reduction of the number of Russian schools is expected. The inflow of young Russian-speaking professionals among the teaching staff continues to decrease (as universities of Lithuania do not train subject-teachers for Russian schools, except Russianists). On top of this, the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Lithuania tightened the knowledge of the state language requirements for subject teachers. It should be noted that through the efforts of the Russian-speaking and Polish communities an acquiescence in the terms of implementation of the Act has been achieved. So, for the schools of national minorities a transition period with softer evaluation criteria was introduced. In addition, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania set up a working group on minority schools in which to discuss critical issues. However, these measures are still insufficient. It's time to call the ongoing process by its true name: it is a deliberate assimilation and linguocide! First, Russian and Polish population is forbidden to write their names in accordance with their national traditions and grammatical rules. We have been deprived of real opportunities to teach children their native history and culture in schools, funded among other through our taxes. Now our right to teach our offspring in their native language at all will be limited . What's next? Will we be forbidden to write our names on the gravestones? Lithuanian state