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The causes of the emigration of the members of the Russian ethnic minority from Lithuania in the last two decades are analyzed in the article. There is a lack of official statistics about the scale (numbers) and reasons for the emigration of ethnic minority groups from Lithuania. Therefore, the qualitative data analysis of Lithuanian press in the Russian language and interviews with informants of Russian nationality is presented in the article. The qualitative data analysis allows to look at the aspects on emigration from the Russian ethnic minority group perspective. The topics of articles about emigration and emigration aspects reflected in informants’ interviews are analyzed. It is considered how emigration of Russians from Lithuania is related to socio-economic, socio-psychological and other factors important to the country’s development.

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a multifactorial disease of the central nervous system with pronounced hereditary predisposition. The purpose of the study was to test the assumption on the involvement of the apolipoprotein E gene ( APOE) polymorphism in exon 4 in the development of MS in ethnic Russians. Samples independently collected in Moscow (106 MS cases and 189 control healthy volunteers), Sverdlovsk oblast (54 and 109, respectively), and the Republic of Bashkortostan (119 and 285, respectively) were examined. Genotypes for 2059C/T and 2197C/T polymorphisms of the APOE gene, which determine the amino acid substitutions C112R and R158C in apolipoprotein E, were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction followed by restriction analysis of amplificates. No statistically significant differences in genotype or allele frequencies were found between the control group and the group of MS cases. The APOE*4 allele is not associated with the risk of MS in ethnic Russians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]