>>BTW, I keep forgetting to ask you about your surname - are you really a Lithuanian, or just a Russian with origins there?
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>You are correct that my last name means Lithuanian. But I was born in the Western Ukraine; so my connection to Lithuania is probably in the ancestry. My father was born in Bessarabia, which at the time was part of Romania.
>But as far as being "russian", it is only in America I am referred to as a Russian. In the CCCP I was always told that I am a Jew; and to make sure I didn't forget it, I was reminded almost every day :) (The reason I left the CCCP)

You did hint to all of this previously, but I just had to check my memory (IOW finally forget about always forgetting to ask you).

I wonder how many "Russians" in the US have the same referral problem.