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[00:00:22] Good morning, it's seven o'clock, time for the news, I invite
[00:00:26] you to watch,
[00:00:28] today we buried. The first Prime Minister of independent Lithuania
[00:00:32] after its restoration, Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė. From 9 to
[00:00:36] 13. In Vilnius' St. John's Church,
[00:00:39] the public can bid farewell to the deceased.
[00:00:43] The funeral procession will move towards Santakalnis Cemetery.
[00:00:46] The politician will be buried on the signatories' hill.
[00:00:49] Farewell speeches will be given, a minute of silence will be observed.
[00:00:53] The state flag will be handed over
[00:00:55] to the relatives. LRT will broadcast a special program.
[00:00:59] At 9 AM, a broadcast from St. John's
[00:01:02] Church will begin, at 12:50
[00:01:04] minutes, a special program and a broadcast of the funeral
[00:01:08] ceremony. Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė died
[00:01:11] last week, at the age of
[00:01:13] 84.
[00:01:18] With Ukraine no longer having anything to shoot down increasing Russian
[00:01:21] ballistic missile attacks, Volodymir Zelensky
[00:01:25] accused the West of playing political games.
[00:01:28] To the National Security and Defense Council, he stated that this year,
[00:01:32] only a third of the ammunition for air defense from the West was received,
[00:01:35] allegedly American Patriot missiles were used
[00:01:39] in the war with Iran, but these and other air defense missiles have been supplied
[00:01:43] by European countries that are
[00:01:45] not at war there, so the interruption of supply may be
[00:01:48] an attempt to pressure Ukraine to negotiate with Russia. Yesterday, during
[00:01:52] an attack on the Kyiv region, at least 21
[00:01:55] people died. Ukraine did not shoot down a single one of
[00:01:58] the 28 missiles. Zelensky said that as winter approaches,
[00:02:02] Russia aims to significantly increase missile production
[00:02:05] to destroy energy facilities, and according
[00:02:08] to Kyiv, it is increasingly firing North Korean missiles and moving its entire
[00:02:12] missile unit to Ukraine. Zelensky discussed with
[00:02:15] the NATO head how to get more ammunition from alliance
[00:02:19] members.
[00:02:24] When there is such a big shortage, I don't know if there are other
[00:02:26] reasons, not just the Middle East, maybe it's also... Political
[00:02:30] steps to make Ukraine more, let's say, compliant, in my
[00:02:34] opinion, this is the case. We understand that this is a serious
[00:02:37] challenge.
[00:02:42] As Germany's most important shipping river, the Rhine, continues to dry up,
[00:02:45] a new record low water level is expected
[00:02:48] today. Just a week ago, the appointed transport
[00:02:52] minister is today calling an urgent meeting with industry and business
[00:02:55] representatives. How to act when some shipping companies are stopping
[00:02:59] navigation? While others can only accept a small
[00:03:03] portion of usual cargo in barges. When the economy
[00:03:06] is already stuck, supply chain disruptions and
[00:03:09] rising freight costs can deal another painful
[00:03:13] blow.
[00:03:16] Daily becoming shallower. The most important German waterway, for some
[00:03:19] ships already completely too shallow, others can still
[00:03:22] transport cargo, but only a small portion of it. Shipping companies
[00:03:26] already increased rates in July, now they are three times higher than in June.
[00:03:30] But some are already completely stopping container transport on long stretches of the river.
[00:03:33] The ship,
[00:03:36] which usually transports 2, 2,500 tons
[00:03:40] of cargo, can now transport 400, maybe 600
[00:03:43] tons, depending on the type. For the entire transport chain, this
[00:03:46] imposes a huge burden to
[00:03:49] reorganize everything so that goods still reach
[00:03:52] their destination. This spot on the Rhine near Kaub, not far from
[00:03:55] Koblenz, is considered the basis for measurements, for ships that transport
[00:03:59] cargo to Southern Germany and Switzerland. Here, the river depth
[00:04:02] for normal navigation should be 40 cm, but
[00:04:06] yesterday it was only 23. The previous
[00:04:09] record low in 2018 was
[00:04:12] 25 cm. The upper river is about a meter
[00:04:16] deeper. Meteorologists predict that today
[00:04:19] the navigational depth will further decrease.
[00:04:22] No changes are expected in the coming days, no significant rain that would bring
[00:04:26] relief.
[00:04:28] The Rhine is the second longest river in Western and Central Europe after the Danube,
[00:04:32] and nine countries depend on its waters. Besides grains, coal,
[00:04:36] fuel, ores, and chemicals, the river transports goods that are difficult
[00:04:40] to move by road or rail, such as
[00:04:43] steel structures for construction. The country's construction federation warned that
[00:04:47] when the Rhine can no longer be relied upon, the transport and
[00:04:49] logistics situation becomes vulnerable. When Europe's largest
[00:04:53] economy is already barely growing due to high energy
[00:04:56] prices and foreign competition, the industry says
[00:04:59] it cannot bear another burden. Therefore, the construction
[00:05:02] federation is asking the government for long-term solutions for
[00:05:05] shipping. One alternative, of course, is
[00:05:09] to use so-called low-water adapted ships. But, as
[00:05:13] you can imagine, you can't build them overnight, it usually takes
[00:05:16] one and a half to two and a half years to build a ship, depending on
[00:05:20] its size, and of course, considering the size of the Rhine fleet, this is
[00:05:24] only possible gradually. Last
[00:05:26] week, the government reassured that there would be no significant impact
[00:05:29] on the economy, as many companies had already reorganized supply
[00:05:33] chains, arranged other ways to transport goods, and used warehouses
[00:05:37] in other locations, but today's meeting during the peak
[00:05:40] holiday season indicates that assessments
[00:05:42] are changing.
[00:05:46] Next year, on the occasion of Lithuania's presidency of the Council of the European Union,
[00:05:50] an exhibition by Kazė Zimblytė, one of the pioneers of
[00:05:53] Lithuanian abstractionism, is planned to be held in
[00:05:56] Brussels. A comprehensive catalog of her works, stored
[00:05:59] at the National Art Museum, is being prepared. Some
[00:06:03] of the works are being restored at the Pranas Gudynas
[00:06:07] Restoration
[00:09:12] of next year, on the occasion of Lithuania's presidency of the Council of the European Union,
[00:09:15] her solo exhibition is planned to be held
[00:09:18] in Brussels, at the Felixsart Museum, where the
[00:09:22] restored works will also be exhibited.
[00:09:26] In Kaunas, it is currently 21, in Vilnius and
[00:09:28] Šiauliai 20, in Klaipėda, Panevėžys, and
[00:09:31] Utena 19 degrees
[00:09:33] Celsius.
[00:09:43] Today will be partly cloudy, short rains are expected
[00:09:46] in many places, locally heavy, in most of the country,
[00:09:49] mostly in southern Lithuania, during the afternoon
[00:09:53] squalls and hail are possible in some areas,
[00:09:56] wind from the southwest, west 5-10
[00:09:58] m/s, temperature will reach
[00:10:00] 27-32,
[00:10:03] in the western part of the country
[00:10:05] 23-26,
[00:10:08] in Vilnius, short rains are expected, in the afternoon, a squall
[00:10:11] is possible.
[00:10:30] Today the public will bid farewell to the first head of the Lithuanian government after
[00:10:34] the restoration of independence, Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė,
[00:10:37] she died last week at the age of 84.
[00:10:41] The public's farewell, people's farewell to Kazimira Danutė
[00:10:44] Prunskienė will also be broadcast on LRT television immediately after the program "Good
[00:10:48] Morning Lithuania", and at 12:50
[00:10:51] minutes, a special program with colleague Nemira Pumprickai.
[00:10:55] With us this morning is Vytautas Magnus University political scientist Dr.
[00:10:58] Mindaugas Norkevičius. Good morning. Good
[00:11:01] morning. Mr. Norkevičius, Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė came
[00:11:05] to lead the state at a difficult time. What were the
[00:11:08] political circumstances at that time and what were the main
[00:11:11] challenges that the politician faced?
[00:11:15] In that period, the politician became the first
[00:11:18] prime minister and the first woman prime minister
[00:11:22] in this entire
[00:11:25] political system, which involved the encirclement of the Soviet
[00:11:28] Union, various economic
[00:11:31] situations and a period of reforms,
[00:11:34] which she entered, it
[00:11:38] was one of those that were
[00:11:40] the most difficult, but any other
[00:11:43] politician would have faced exactly the same
[00:11:47] huge international situation
[00:11:51] in politics, when the state needed
[00:11:54] recognition, both the creation of the state
[00:11:57] itself within the country, of the political
[00:12:00] system itself, and that international
[00:12:03] diplomatic activity, which Kazimiera
[00:12:06] Danutė Prunskienė carried out in the 1990s through meetings
[00:12:09] with leaders of the United States of America,
[00:12:12] the United Kingdom, France,
[00:12:15] and Germany, in order to secure
[00:12:18] international support for Lithuania after the declaration
[00:12:21] of independence, were truly very significant. And
[00:12:25] in creating the entire period
[00:12:28] of the state's regaining independence,
[00:12:31] as well as in shaping foreign
[00:12:34] policy. What could be considered
[00:12:37] the main achievements of this politician, starting
[00:12:40] with the formation of the government and ending with her later
[00:12:43] work as a minister?
[00:12:46] She
[00:12:51] was also a signatory of the Lithuanian Independence
[00:12:53] Act, who contributed to the restoration
[00:12:57] of independent statehood of Lithuania,
[00:13:00] the signing of the act, as well as
[00:13:04] the aforementioned first prime minister, and
[00:13:07] that leadership of such an exceptionally
[00:13:10] difficult period of state-building, she
[00:13:13] also contributed to the creation of the Lithuanian
[00:13:17] Restructuring Movement and was
[00:13:20] one of its active
[00:13:23] initiative group members.
[00:13:25] Also, the aforementioned diplomatic activity, the very
[00:13:28] beginning of it and its
[00:13:31] formation. For many years,
[00:13:35] Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė was also a member of the Seimas
[00:13:38] in various parliamentary committees,
[00:13:42] commissions, she also served as the Minister of Agriculture,
[00:13:46] thus contributing to the formation of Lithuanian
[00:13:49] agricultural policy, with Lithuania
[00:13:52] already being a member of the
[00:13:56] European Union, and also her entire scientific
[00:13:59] activity, active public activity, which was
[00:14:02] visible in her leadership of
[00:14:04] women's organizations,
[00:14:08] supporting women's leadership, that
[00:14:11] too was emphasized, not without reason
[00:14:15] for her merits to the state, she was
[00:14:18] awarded both the Grand Cross of the Grand Duke
[00:14:21] Gediminas Commander's Cross
[00:14:24] of Lithuania and the Lithuanian
[00:14:27] Independence Medal. Mr. Norkevičius,
[00:14:30] Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė's career is certainly viewed
[00:14:34] ambiguously, from trust, and what
[00:14:37] her comrades-in-arms are now saying, that she was a special
[00:14:41] politician, to harsh
[00:14:43] criticism. Why has her figure remained
[00:14:47] difficult for historians, political scientists, and the public to evaluate
[00:14:50] even today?
[00:14:55] Yes, her personality perfectly illustrates what you
[00:14:59] are saying, that controversial
[00:15:01] nature of the Lithuanian political system and the ambiguous
[00:15:04] evaluation, although her role in restoring
[00:15:07] Lithuanian independence and leading the first
[00:15:11] government is significant, however,
[00:15:14] later political activity, speaking after
[00:15:18] the 1990s, when the eight-month
[00:15:21] period of premiership ended,
[00:15:25] some decisions certainly received a lot of criticism and
[00:15:28] public discussions in society, starting
[00:15:32] with suspicions of ties with the KGB, which
[00:15:35] ultimately from a legal perspective
[00:15:38] there is no final decision on this
[00:15:41] matter, and that should not be
[00:15:45] exploited either, because there was one court
[00:15:48] decision, and then another court decision,
[00:15:52] which overturned it, her view of
[00:15:54] the Soviet Union, of Russia, when she
[00:15:57] was also serving as prime minister, she maintained
[00:16:00] a fairly moderate stance on
[00:16:03] negotiations with Moscow,
[00:16:06] compared to some other politicians of that time, like
[00:16:10] Vytautas Landsbergis or similar figures, but here
[00:16:13] too, one can draw certain parallels,
[00:16:17] whether it was pragmatic diplomacy at
[00:16:20] that time, considering the entire political system,
[00:16:23] or whether it involved excessive
[00:16:27] concessions that could have been made
[00:16:30] to Moscow. In this case, the economic decisions of
[00:16:34] 1991 were also
[00:16:38] one of the most
[00:16:40] prominent situations related to this policy, whether it
[00:16:44] was during the Soviet economic blockade,
[00:16:47] when the government raised the prices of many
[00:16:50] goods, and this caused immense public
[00:16:54] dissatisfaction and protests, although the decision
[00:16:58] was explained as an economic
[00:17:01] necessity, it very much
[00:17:04] reduced her popularity and
[00:17:08] led to her resignation.
[00:17:11] And with this economic
[00:17:14] situation, she was very much associated
[00:17:17] with it in later times. In the last
[00:17:21] decade, how much more did the politician not actively
[00:17:24] participate in politics? Does that withdrawal over time somehow
[00:17:27] change your, for example, as a political scientist,
[00:17:30] assessment? And ultimately, the younger generation that
[00:17:34] is just coming now, who did not see her as an active politician. What assessment
[00:17:38] could be left for them?
[00:17:39] Well, first of all, Kazimiera
[00:17:42] Danutė Prunskienė was a signatory
[00:17:46] of the March 11th Act,
[00:17:48] she was the first prime
[00:17:52] minister of restored independent Lithuania,
[00:17:55] contributing to the state's international recognition
[00:17:59] and the first steps of independent
[00:18:02] Lithuania. These two things are a huge
[00:18:05] legacy, being the first. prime minister,
[00:18:08] being the first prime minister of the restored
[00:18:12] state, and another thing, she
[00:18:16] demonstrated, as it was
[00:18:20] extremely difficult to do at that time,
[00:18:23] to be the first woman prime minister, and
[00:18:25] in the Lithuanian political system we don't have many prominent
[00:18:29] female politicians, and Kazimiera Danutė Prunskienė
[00:18:33] was one such example, although
[00:18:36] historically, politically,
[00:18:39] the politician's legacy
[00:18:42] is indeed ambiguously and
[00:18:45] complexly conveyed, but that
[00:18:48] contribution to the restoration of Lithuanian independence
[00:18:51] is significant. Other political activities,
[00:18:54] which we can evaluate from various
[00:18:57] perspectives, with certain controversies that accompanied
[00:19:01] her for many years, led to
[00:19:05] Kazimiera Danutė Prunskienė's legacy
[00:19:08] in the political system being discussed from various
[00:19:12] perspectives, but one cannot discount those first two
[00:19:16] most important things, from the signatory of the act
[00:19:20] to the first prime minister.
[00:19:23] Thank you for the conversation and insights, we talked with
[00:19:27] Vytautas Magnus University political scientist, Dr. Mindaugas
[00:19:30] Norkevičius, I want to remind you that the farewell to
[00:19:33] Kazimiera Danutė Prunskienė will be broadcast
[00:19:37] live on LRT immediately after the program "Good
[00:19:41] Morning Lithuania", and at 12:50
[00:19:44] a special program will be aired with colleague Nemira Pumppriskaite.
[00:19:58] Farewell to the signatory of the March 11th
[00:20:00] Act. The first prime
[00:20:03] minister of Lithuania after the restoration of independence.
[00:20:10] State funeral ceremony, Thursday from
[00:20:14] 9:00 AM, live on LRT
[00:20:17] television.
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[00:30:37] Today, the first Prime Minister of restored independent Lithuania,
[00:30:41] Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė, is being laid to rest. From 9 to 13.
[00:30:45] In St. John's Church in Vilnius, the public can
[00:30:48] say goodbye to the deceased. At 13:00, the
[00:30:51] funeral procession will move towards Santakalnis Cemetery. The politician
[00:30:55] will be buried in the Signatories' Hill.
[00:30:58] Farewell speeches will be given.