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    Dr. Letas  PALMAITIS
                                Baltist & Orientalist, Ethnologist

                            Cell. ph.
+370 67746906,  e-mail: palmaitis@yahoo.co.uk
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  1. Introduction
 
2. Positions and grants
  3. Research work: 
OrientalisticsIndoeuropean and general linguistics,       
                                         
Indoeuropean and Baltic linguisticsPrussology  
 
4. Life programme: N.-Baltic boundarytoponymsRURIKNeo-Prussian,
                                         
Documented novel about Ingermanland
  5. Support

    
The life programme is calculated for possible last 10 years in which the daughters must be brought up and the main planned works finalised under hard conditions of unemployment and accidental earnings demanding almost all energy and time. There is no hope of any support from Lithuania because of being ostracised by the colleagues in the corporative society under the competition in such narrow sphere as Baltic linguistics.
      

The Baltic origin of the names Russia and Russians.
     The hypothesis has been formulated by Dr. Letas Palmaitis in 2001 Festive Volume dedicated to Prof. Dr. Habil. Michal Hasiuk, Poznan University. Enough linguistic data (first of all an undoubtful role of Western Balts in adoptingScandinavian word vikingR by the Russians in the form vityaz) as well as historical data are gathered to show that Primary Russes were a West Baltic Scalovian tribe of the basin of the river *Rusa, today Rusne. Ca. half a year is necessary for the work with Scandinavian documents in which concerned events are mentioned. While it has been already discovered by analizing DNA data that Rurik was of Finnougrian origin, the author states  that vikings-vitings of littoral part of the Baltic lands were mostly scandinavized Balts mixed with accidental representatives of various ethnic groups of the post-wandering period.

Publications:

1.
Guessed Riddles of the Millenium [in Lithuanian: Imintos tukstantmecio misles]. Kaunas: Kalendorius 2009.

2.
Die Mission des Hl. Brun von Querfurt im Licht der westbaltischen (schalauischen) Hypothese über die Herhunft des Namens Rus [im Polnischen]. / Colloquia Baltica, Olsztyn 2009 (in print).