{"id":31913,"date":"2026-03-21T16:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=31913"},"modified":"2026-03-21T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:37:39","slug":"lithuania-and-the-z-and-n-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/lithuania-and-the-z-and-n-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania and the Z and N Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minister of Culture Vaida Aleknavi\u010dien\u0117 says she disagrees with the statements of Audrius Valotka, head of the State Language Inspectorate, about &#8220;gypsies&#8221; and &#8220;negroes&#8221;, and invites him for a conversation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u0417\u0430\u044f\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0433\u043b\u0430\u0432\u044b \u0418\u043d\u0441\u043f\u0435\u043a\u0446\u0438\u0438 \u043f\u043e \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0443 \u043e &#8220;\u043d\u0435\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0445&#8221; \u0438 &#8220;\u0446\u044b\u0433\u0430\u043d\u0430\u0445&#8221; \u0432\u044b\u0437\u0432\u0430\u043b\u043e \u0431\u0443\u0440\u044e: \u044d\u0442\u043e \u0443\u043c\u0443 \u043d\u0435 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0436\u0438\u043c\u043e. In: Delfi. 20.03.2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/ru\/news\/politics\/zayavlenie-glavy-inspekcii-po-yazyku-o-negrah-i-cyganah-vyzvalo-buryu-eto-umu-ne-postizhimo-120226281\">https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/ru\/news\/politics\/zayavlenie-glavy-inspekcii-po-yazyku-o-negrah-i-cyganah-vyzvalo-buryu-eto-umu-ne-postizhimo-120226281<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Minister calls Valotkas to the mat: she didn&#8217;t like the words &#8220;gypsy&#8221; and &#8220;negro&#8221;. In: Made in Vilnius. 19.03.2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/madeinvilnius.lt\/en\/news\/Lithuanian-news\/The-minister--who-is-calling-the-cleaner--did-not-like-the-words-gypsy-and-negro-on-the-rug.\/#google_vignette\">https:\/\/madeinvilnius.lt\/en\/news\/Lithuanian-news\/The-minister&#8211;who-is-calling-the-cleaner&#8211;did-not-like-the-words-gypsy-and-negro-on-the-rug.\/#google_vignette<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Culture Vaida Aleknavi\u010dien\u0117 says she disagrees with the statements of Audrius Valotka, head of the State Language Inspectorate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo-6193029-2048x1365-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[625,14],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-31913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lithuania","category-news-eastern-europe","tag-racism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo-6193029-2048x1365-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31916,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913\/revisions\/31916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}