Tsar mentality - he is russia and russia is his.

My cousin's regular public kindegarten has English lessons and he's not yet 5 years old. When I was in kindegarten over 20 years ago my mom allowed me to take an English class once a week too. It's not uncommon.

Because English is basically Lingua Franca nowadays. You can communicate in it pretty much anywhere in the world and a lot of businesses have English and their main language.

By shooting their dicks off

I know what they're saying and I regret it. Because as soon as I start to explain to non-russian speakers how absolutely fucked up MOST russians are I get called names. So what's the point of knowing that language lol

2nd foreign language options in my school were German, French, and Russian. (1st foreign language is English). My parents made me choose russian and I regretted it ever since. Especially that it's useless for me other than see war reports in their language and understanding just how fucked up their general population is. Meanwhile some of my classmates who picked French ended up studying in France. My half-sister is Belarusian and she picked russian as a 2nd foreign language because she already spoke it and it was an easy way to get good grades with minimal effort. Also, Russian schools where all subjects except for Lithuanian and English are taught in russian exist with no plans to close them. So what are your reasons to keep teaching it in Lithuanian schools? To make more kids lazy or miserable?

For context: Lithuanians learn Lithuanian - their native language. Then they learn English in kindegarten and/or from 2nd grade of school. Then at 6th grade they get to pick a second foreign language. That depends on school - some schools already didn't have russian as an option, mine had French, German, and Russian, and the only reason I chose russian was because my parents understood it so they thought I should take it so they could help me with homework.

Removing russian would be removing one of the multiple second-foreign-language options. That's it. And it's not even popular and/or useful (most businesses are Europe/Asia/US oriented. Most students choose to study in Western Europe).

Russian schools (minority-specific school, just like Jewish or Polish or Ukrainian) where all subjects but Lithuanian language are taught in russian, still exist with no plans to close them down. This will only affect 2nd foreign language learning in standard Lithuanian public schools.