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[00:00:19] those who have a, well,
[00:02:00] Lithuanian basketball, community divided,
[00:02:03] and results getting worse. National team
[00:02:06] fans' hearts are warmed only by past
[00:02:09] victories.
[00:02:12] What's the solution? What do the candidates for the country's basketball
[00:02:16] leaders propose? Discussion on LRT Forum tonight
[00:02:20] live immediately after
[00:02:21] Panorama.
[00:03:37] in the news. The European Union has approved the largest package of
[00:03:40] sanctions against Russia to date. It has added over 1,500 military industry
[00:03:43] figures responsible for ballistic missile production to the blacklist.
[00:03:47] The Lithuanian Prime Minister proposes to attack more data
[00:03:50] centers in Russia, but as the confrontation with Donald Trump continues,
[00:03:54] European leaders no longer hide that they do not believe in his announced energy
[00:03:58] truce. After a Russian strike, Volodymyr Zelenskyy stung that
[00:04:02] Vladimir Putin does not read Trump's posts on social
[00:04:05] networks.
[00:04:07] "The reality in Ukraine is not changed by Donald Trump's posts on social media,"
[00:04:10] says Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as Kyiv admitted that it
[00:04:14] learned about the American President's announced immediate ceasefire from
[00:04:17] the media. Immediately after the post, Russia targeted
[00:04:21] a power plant in Kharkiv, causing even more damage to our energy
[00:04:25] system. It is clear that Putin does not read True
[00:04:28] Social.
[00:04:31] The French leader says he has not noticed any energy truce,
[00:04:34] so Europe's position will not change as long as Russia
[00:04:37] bombs civilians and energy.
[00:04:41] So yes, to seek an energy truce, I would add, and in the
[00:04:44] Black Sea, and to restore peace talks, but
[00:04:48] essentially to surrender to the Russian threat. But when
[00:04:51] the Financial Times announced that American officials threatened European
[00:04:55] capitals over the weekend that they would stop selling weapons to Ukraine for
[00:04:59] European money.
[00:05:14] interested in ceasefires, de-escalation or peace, it is interested only in domination.
[00:05:17] This is why I will travel to Brussels to urge European partners to seriously
[00:05:21] consider tightening sanctions against Russia.
[00:05:25] The Lithuanian Prime Minister proposes a tougher step. We should
[00:05:28] ask Mr. Zelenskyy to attack more data centers
[00:05:32] in Russia, that could help. So
[00:05:35] far, the European Union has approved new sanctions. The largest expansion of the blacklist to date,
[00:05:39] over 1500 individuals and companies.
[00:05:42] According to the community's diplomatic chief, it will significantly complicate
[00:05:45] Russia's ability to produce weapons to
[00:05:47] kill Ukrainians.
[00:05:50] "We want to end this war? The only way is to put more pressure on Russia,
[00:05:53] we will also invite the United States to impose sanctions so that we can
[00:05:57] truly end the war," that whole effect, like
[00:06:00] attacking processing plants, would not be necessary if the war were
[00:06:03] ended. But when Donald Trump complains about Ukrainian
[00:06:07] strikes on processing plants and announced a deal to get diesel
[00:06:11] from Russia, representatives no longer try to hide
[00:06:14] the division, where there is a dangerous direction, that is, to
[00:06:17] conclude agreements with Russia
[00:06:20] at the same time, without seeing any changes in Russia's behavior
[00:06:24] towards Ukraine, and if these two paths
[00:06:27] diverge, we can enter a very bumpy
[00:06:30] and difficult period, therefore Europe
[00:06:34] must remain very firm and clear and
[00:06:37] communicate very precisely. Trump's former secretary, in an interview
[00:06:40] with Fox & Friends, accused Europe.
[00:06:44] "Europeans have given Russia more money since the beginning of the war, more
[00:06:47] than to Ukraine, because they cannot disconnect from Russian
[00:06:51] energy. Their energy policy has failed, and they
[00:06:54] continue to finance Vladimir Putin, so it is
[00:06:57] hypocritical to explain to them that we cannot get
[00:07:01] a diesel price break." The Kremlin, even when asked,
[00:07:04] does not comment on Trump's statement about the energy truce, says
[00:07:07] it maintains contacts, but rejects Zelenskyy's proposal to cease
[00:07:11] fire for two months to hold the elections
[00:07:13] Trump wants. The Kremlin and President Putin, and
[00:07:17] representatives at other levels, have repeatedly stated that we want,
[00:07:21] not just a ceasefire, we want long-term peace and are
[00:07:24] ready to do everything to
[00:07:26] achieve it.
[00:07:29] Zelenskyy says if Russia wants Ukraine's long-range strikes to stop,
[00:07:33] let it stop targeting energy facilities and killing
[00:07:37] its people. This winter, if Russia does not agree to
[00:07:40] an energy truce, we will respond, that's why yesterday
[00:07:44] the American President's post generated real interest and
[00:07:48] we believe that an energy truce can truly
[00:07:50] work. In Ukraine, we immediately supported this
[00:07:54] idea. He says that such a truce requires American
[00:07:57] pressure on Russia, not the lifting of sanctions or concessions, but
[00:08:01] it must be done in reality, not just on Truth
[00:08:04] Social social network.
[00:08:08] For the second time, the Vilnius District Council meeting did not take place, as representatives
[00:08:12] of the Lithuanian Polish Electoral Action Christian Families Union faction
[00:08:15] did not attend. Today, the meeting was supposed to discuss the renaming of streets
[00:08:18] named after the Polish clergyman Henryk Gulbinowicz, who was punished for pedophilia.
[00:08:22] According to the Council Secretary, the mayor was not properly
[00:08:25] informed about the non-attendance of Council members. Also, some representatives of the Polish
[00:08:29] Electoral Action faction had attended the previous Ethics Committee meeting.
[00:08:33] The municipal council had already discussed the street renaming issue
[00:08:37] in February and April of this year, but in both cases, the proposals
[00:08:39] were not approved.
[00:08:42] They don't come to the most important thing, that is, the council member's meeting. Well, everyone took
[00:08:45] an oath, so meetings should be attended if you can. So,
[00:08:48] maliciously intentionally doesn't come. Well, you know, that
[00:08:52] boycotting, what can
[00:08:56] to evaluate it, this is
[00:08:59] simply a strategic
[00:09:02] oversight when meetings are supposed to take place, and
[00:09:06] if one faction (not naming which one) but
[00:09:09] announces appropriately
[00:09:13] that the council members will not gather,
[00:09:17] that also needs to be evaluated. I think that this is
[00:09:20] simply a lack of communication and unwillingness
[00:09:24] to truly listen.
[00:09:28] Vilnius University Santaros Clinics announce that the health
[00:09:31] condition of former President Valdas Adamkus is improving. Treatment continues, and he
[00:09:35] remains in the medical institution, where necessary medical
[00:09:39] care is ensured. A week ago, Valdas Adamkus underwent surgery. According to the president's
[00:09:42] office, due to an acute health disorder, Adamkus was admitted to the clinic on September
[00:09:46] 26th. After examinations and evaluation of his health condition, the president
[00:09:50] underwent surgical operation. It was successful. Adamkus was also admitted
[00:09:53] to Santaros Clinics at the beginning of the year, where he underwent a procedure
[00:09:56] to restore blood circulation
[00:09:57] in his legs.
[00:10:01] According to the Chamber of Agriculture, the almost 20 million euros in aid allocated by the European
[00:10:04] Commission and the government, due to increased fuel and fertilizer prices,
[00:10:08] is intended to be distributed opaquely. The chair of the Chamber says that the aid is foreseen
[00:10:12] only for the grain and dairy sectors, while those growing vegetables, fruits,
[00:10:16] and meat will be left out. The Chamber of Agriculture states that it is missing
[00:10:20] dialogue with the Ministry of Agriculture and an explanation for the aid distribution. At that
[00:10:23] time, the Minister of Agriculture, Kęstutis Mažeika, asserts that the aid will also
[00:10:27] be received by the vegetable and fruit growing sectors. He says
[00:10:30] that such talk about supposedly opaque aid distribution is an attempt
[00:10:33] to mislead the public. Especially those smaller
[00:10:37] regional, whether family farms, or newly established, or
[00:10:40] no matter if older,
[00:10:44] less ability to generate income, they are completely
[00:10:48] losers, but they also had rain, they had
[00:10:51] no electricity, also.
[00:10:54] those fertilizers and all other things, if you keep a lot of those
[00:10:58] cows, they buy your milk at higher prices, if you have few,
[00:11:01] then few, but exactly the same cost, that
[00:11:05] basket is also not smaller for anyone, right, and the prices are
[00:11:09] also the same, gardeners and vegetable growers will also receive,
[00:11:12] just of the same size, as everyone, according
[00:11:15] to the established methodology, we focus on small and medium-sized farms, which
[00:11:19] means from one hectare to 300 hectares, who
[00:11:22] well grow various crops
[00:11:26] and from one to 300 milking cows
[00:11:29] are also supported, we understand that larger farms
[00:11:32] over 300 hectares and animal farms over
[00:11:36] 300 hectares are indeed economically
[00:11:39] stronger, their bargaining power
[00:11:41] is greater.
[00:11:44] This year's Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to American economists
[00:11:47] Robert Hall and Michael Woodford. According to the Royal Swedish
[00:11:51] Academy of Sciences, the professors of Stanford and Columbia Universities
[00:11:55] were awarded for the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization,
[00:11:58] revealing how economic models can be reformed and thus
[00:12:02] revitalize stabilization policy. Unlike other Nobel
[00:12:05] prizes awarded since 1901 according to
[00:12:08] Alfred Nobel's will, the economics prize
[00:12:12] was additionally established in 1968 by the Swedish
[00:12:16] Central Bank on the occasion of its 300th anniversary. This year,
[00:12:19] the monetary value of the prize reached 12 million Swedish kronor, a million more
[00:12:23] than in previous years. Just over one million
[00:12:26] euros.
[00:12:30] At the age of 78, journalist, editor
[00:12:34] Henrikas Vaitiekūnas passed away. Throughout his career, he worked in various newspapers,
[00:12:38] magazines, and lectured at Vilnius University. Henrikas
[00:12:41] Vaitiekūnas was a long-time LRT employee. Expressing condolences,
[00:12:44] state leaders say the legendary journalist's ability to notice
[00:12:48] people, hear their stories, and share his experience left
[00:12:51] a clear mark and enriched Lithuanian journalism.
[00:12:56] In 1949,
[00:13:00] the future journalist was born there, who had many fans on television for his
[00:13:03] masterful words and wit. However, when Henrikas
[00:13:06] Vaitekūnas was three months old, his family moved to Klaipėda, which
[00:13:10] he called a holy city, without which he could not live.
[00:13:14] Sociologists say, and even present surveys,
[00:13:17] that as many as 95%
[00:13:20] of Lithuanian residents, if they had to change their place
[00:13:23] of residence, their own and...
[00:13:29] Vaitėkūnas graduated from secondary and music schools, and worked as a loader
[00:13:33] in a knitwear factory. Vaitiekūnas laughs saying that after becoming
[00:13:36] a Klaipėda resident, he still learned to swim in Pakruojis, in the
[00:13:39] Kruoja River, although at that time all the children compared him to a real sailor.
[00:13:43] Later, Vaitėkūnas worked and studied in Vilnius, Kaunas, and after more than
[00:13:47] 40 years, he returned to Klaipėda, because, as he replied,
[00:13:50] he became the captain of the show, began to host Lithuania, a maritime
[00:13:54] state. "If I tell you Mars,
[00:13:57] you will probably think that I am talking about the planet,
[00:14:01] that red Mars. That is not the case, we are
[00:14:05] at sea, almost at sea, and therefore
[00:14:08] Mars is an observation
[00:14:11] platform on a ship's
[00:14:14] mast." The show started airing
[00:14:17] in 2012, but Henrikas Vaitiekūnas became a well-known television
[00:14:20] face much earlier. We get
[00:14:23] skimmed milk."
[00:14:25] In 1977, he worked at LRT
[00:14:28] Panorama, as a correspondent for the agriculture and
[00:14:30] industry department. Tell me, are there still disputes about milk
[00:14:34] fat content? Of course, it happens, it didn't happen
[00:14:37] to me personally, but for some,
[00:14:40] this question, he solves it
[00:14:44] together, with people participating and with the
[00:15:05] Vaitiekūnas was the deputy director of Kaunas Program
[00:15:08] Directorate, later he started managing the directorate and creating the show Laisvės
[00:15:12] alėja. When I, you see, drove to a gas
[00:15:16] station in Kaunas, and the station was closed,
[00:15:18] I
[00:15:21] knocked, saying: give me gas. Well, they
[00:15:25] said, Laisvės alėja will end now, then you can
[00:15:28] fill up. People sit and watch Laisvės alėja and
[00:15:32] say, no gas. It's a normal show from which
[00:15:35] all later Lithuanian television
[00:15:38] kakadu and all sorts of other frivolous news
[00:15:42] shows developed. Vaitiekūnas's path to journalism was winding. After
[00:15:46] unfinished journalism studies, he had to delve into
[00:15:49] librarianship, law, Lithuanian language, and
[00:15:52] literature. But the master of words was stubborn and
[00:15:55] in 2000, being 50 years old, he still finished
[00:15:58] journalism. Being a lecturer at Vilnius College,
[00:16:02] Vilnius University, the higher school of international law and
[00:16:04] business, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University,
[00:16:08] he did not attach great importance to education. When we received those
[00:16:12] diplomas, Martynas, you probably remember, they were huge, they were very
[00:16:15] big. I still manage to lose them. How much I needed them, I don't know,
[00:16:19] where I always tuck them away somewhere. That day, when they presented them to us, we
[00:16:23] went somewhere to drink beer, I think.
[00:16:26] I lifted the Mini Cooper's trunk and under
[00:16:30] the lid there, so it wouldn't wrinkle, I put it there. Yes, so
[00:16:33] eight years later, when I was selling that
[00:16:35] Mini Cooper, it was already almost gone when I remembered that
[00:16:39] the diploma was there. Vaitiekūnas's reports were always witty,
[00:16:43] with a hint of irony. He also conducted social
[00:16:46] experiments. From 2012,
[00:16:49] Vaitiekūnas was one of the presenters of the LRT show Laba Diena, Lietuva.
[00:16:53] At first, regarding the current affairs show broadcast during the day, Vaitiekūnas said
[00:16:57] he was asked if it would feature so-called "light news".
[00:17:00] The journalist replied that he and his colleagues worked hard
[00:17:04] to make it easy to watch. After some time, he left the show. There
[00:17:08] comes a time when you can
[00:17:12] work, there comes a time when you have to leave,
[00:17:16] not everyone on television
[00:17:17] understands that.
[00:17:20] I am not interrupting my journalistic activity. You only leave
[00:17:23] journalism when the coffin is carried out, then you also
[00:17:27] withdraw from journalism. I
[00:17:29] love journalism, I love television. After leaving
[00:17:33] television, Vaitiekūnas returned to Klaipėda, where he often visited
[00:17:36] his parents' home, where he grew up. After finishing his work in television, Vaitiekūnas
[00:17:40] continued to write his memoirs about it, which he had also done previously while working in the press, in
[00:17:43] Komjaunimo tiesa, Valstiečių laikraštis sportas, Gimtajame
[00:17:47] krašte, editing the publication Kalba Vilnius.
[00:17:51] I don't regret not working in television.
[00:17:54] On the other hand, I like to write a little about television and
[00:17:58] I always broke certain rules
[00:18:02] in recent years, can you really write about
[00:18:05] it when you yourself work?
[00:18:08] On the other hand, those opinions of ours, of old
[00:18:11] journalists, are also not really needed by anyone.
[00:18:14] Life moves at a cruel pace
[00:18:17] and I would not want to remain an old
[00:18:21] grumbler, for whom everything is bad and disliked.
[00:18:24] Vaitiekūnas also disliked the Lithuanian weather, as he said,
[00:18:28] the sky as gray as cement and the frowning faces of people. At those
[00:18:31] moments, the journalist said, he didn't want to see Lithuania or
[00:18:35] live here, but as soon as he left, for even a few days, he couldn't
[00:18:39] do without Lithuania. He always wanted to return, why,
[00:20:32] with occasional light rain in some places, and heavy fog. Temperatures will be
[00:20:36] 16 degrees, in some places 7-9 degrees Celsius,
[00:20:39] with ground frost in some areas down to three degrees below zero. Tomorrow
[00:20:43] during the day, partly cloudy, with scattered light rain, and heavy fog in the morning.
[00:20:47] Temperatures will rise to 10-15 degrees.
[00:21:03] The United States administration warns Ukraine and its allies
[00:21:07] in Europe that Washington may cut off intelligence sharing
[00:21:10] and prevent European countries from buying American
[00:21:14] weapons for Ukraine if Kyiv continues to attack Russian
[00:21:17] energy facilities. This threat
[00:21:21] came after Donald Trump announced a supposed energy
[00:21:24] truce, about which, at least for Ukrainians, the news was
[00:21:27] unexpected. In recent days, Trump
[00:21:31] has surprised the world with more than one statement, from a decision
[00:21:34] to conclude a diesel supply deal with the Kremlin to
[00:21:37] a demand to change the Ukrainian president. So today
[00:21:40] we ask you, how do you rate Trump's agreement with Putin
[00:21:44] on diesel? Logical, after all, America is
[00:21:47] first. This is an alliance with the devil, or
[00:21:50] who knows where it will lead. All three
[00:21:53] answer options are on the screen. You can scan the QR
[00:21:57] code or vote below the live stream window.
[00:22:01] We will review the results at the end of the show. Now I will speak with
[00:22:04] Vytautas Magnus University professor Gintautas Mažeikis. Good
[00:22:07] day. Good day, Mr. Mažeika.
[00:22:10] In what world have we found ourselves
[00:22:14] when the United States imposes sanctions on Russia so that it
[00:22:17] would not have money for war, and after a few weeks, its president
[00:22:21] himself agrees with Putin on Russian diesel? We
[00:22:24] have found ourselves in the world of the corrupt
[00:22:27] far-right. The corrupt far-right
[00:22:31] concludes all sorts of deals and ignores
[00:22:34] democracy, democratic laws, those very laws
[00:22:38] that have already been adopted in the United States, approved by the Senate and
[00:22:41] Congress, or signed by previous
[00:22:44] presidents. In other words, for Donald Trump
[00:22:48] and his entourage, money
[00:22:50] is far more important than human
[00:22:53] lives, personal gain than
[00:22:56] democracy, fame than
[00:22:58] justice, and here, at this point, it is entirely
[00:23:02] understandable that he always wanted and intended, and
[00:23:06] never hid, to be friends with Putin and to fawn
[00:23:10] over him in every way, but he would also like
[00:23:13] to communicate with Chinese leader Xi Jinping
[00:23:16] or praises and worships North
[00:23:20] Korean Kim Jong-un, that is his choice,
[00:23:23] and he also wants to split the European Union
[00:23:26] in every way, by financing, supporting, openly speaking
[00:23:30] for the far-right or populist
[00:23:33] right, accordingly ignoring
[00:23:36] and cursing all others, calling them communists,
[00:23:40] pro-communist, or some kind of traitors, and in this
[00:23:44] way he is constructing a completely new world that America has not
[00:23:47] yet seen.
[00:23:50] the upcoming congressional elections, and Americans are clearly dissatisfied with the current
[00:23:54] economic situation, are we witnessing a situation
[00:23:57] where domestic political interests begin
[00:24:00] to dictate decisions about the survival of another state,
[00:24:04] because we hear exactly the same demands from Trump to replace
[00:24:08] the Ukrainian president?
[00:24:10] Well, all this, that he thinks that he will ask
[00:24:14] Putin this month for 3,000
[00:24:17] tons of diesel, that it will change American
[00:24:21] prices stronger, quite
[00:24:24] strongly, he is deeply mistaken, the United States itself
[00:24:27] exports about 5 million barrels
[00:24:30] of diesel per year, they are one of the
[00:24:34] largest exporters, and this is just business, to buy
[00:24:37] cheaper, sell more expensive, nothing else than
[00:24:41] speculation, the probability that it will help him solve
[00:24:44] domestic problems is close to zero, but he is not very
[00:24:48] worried about the Republican party either, the only
[00:24:51] thing that worries him is his personal safety and his
[00:24:55] family's safety, he will take care of them, well, and he has
[00:24:58] some fantasies, not listening to anyone else,
[00:25:02] and those fantasies, in his opinion, should lead him somewhere
[00:25:06] to his imagined world, he
[00:25:09] fantasizes that he has already won the war against Iran, he
[00:25:12] fantasizes that peace has emerged between Russia and
[00:25:16] Ukraine in the energy sector.
[00:25:20] He fantasizes that he has ended eight or
[00:25:23] nine, eight or nine wars, well, he lives in such a
[00:25:27] cosmos, and those around him, most importantly, the
[00:25:30] surrounding services that help him every day and
[00:25:33] every moment indulge in his irrationality
[00:25:37] and this destroys the world order. What do you
[00:25:40] think, professor, what is more dangerous, Trump's
[00:25:44] deal with Putin, or the fact that such decisions
[00:25:47] are becoming normal? I
[00:25:50] think that this Trump's relationship with Putin
[00:25:53] is just the tip of the iceberg.
[00:25:56] It is clear that no one would have discussed such
[00:25:59] a trifle. At first, this month, when the elections...
[00:26:02] will be determined by this person. 300,000, as I
[00:26:06] mentioned, barrels, nothing, uh, diesel, it will mean nothing,
[00:26:09] it will change nothing, but most likely he has bigger
[00:26:13] agreements, more significant ones,
[00:26:16] e, going much further,
[00:26:19] and Ukraine in this place is just an obstacle, by the way,
[00:26:23] the European Union is also an obstacle, it is undeniable that after
[00:26:26] Ukraine, from America, the European
[00:26:30] Union will also suffer, ways will be sought how to harm them, how to
[00:26:33] destroy them, and to use the internal
[00:26:36] contradictions of the European Union,
[00:26:39] but when Russia is encouraged for its aggression, and
[00:26:43] Ukraine is forced to explain and justify why it
[00:26:47] defends itself, isn't such a precedent
[00:26:50] being formed, when the stronger
[00:26:54] imposes its will on the weaker, and
[00:26:57] what does that say at all then about international law, about
[00:27:01] international order. One should read those thinkers
[00:27:05] and philosophers who surround Trump
[00:27:08] or the so-called MAGA movement, they all say
[00:27:11] the same thing, that the strongest, smartest, and
[00:27:14] richest must survive, an incredibly cynical view
[00:27:18] of the remaining democracy and its self-organization methods,
[00:27:21] and Trump represents this cynical
[00:27:24] view, for him, his personal
[00:27:28] income and pleasant conversations with Putin are
[00:27:32] much more important than hundreds or thousands
[00:27:35] of peaceful Ukrainian residents who died at that time,
[00:27:39] and he doesn't care about them at all, just as Putin probably
[00:27:42] doesn't care about his soldiers dying on the front
[00:27:46] line, thus two cynical individuals
[00:27:49] meet and enjoy talking,
[00:27:53] Professor, briefly, because time is up, but what
[00:27:56] does this situation, this behavior of the United
[00:28:00] States president, teach others?
[00:28:03] uh, I mean Chinese, North Korean
[00:28:05] leaders? Well, I don't think China and
[00:28:09] North Korea will be as cynical as
[00:28:12] Trump, they still do not represent that, let's say,
[00:28:16] oligarchic or corrupt capitalism, both
[00:28:19] these, North Korean and Chinese leaders, are still
[00:28:23] communist party or local,
[00:28:26] Korean or not, party e
[00:28:30] implementers, they have a certain different
[00:28:32] vision of the world and probably in their hearts deeply despise
[00:28:35] Trump e, but on the other hand, they gladly want to
[00:28:39] use him. Vytautas Magnus University
[00:28:43] Professor Mr. Mažeikis, thank you for being
[00:28:46] with us. In four days, Ukrainian drones
[00:28:49] damaged three Russian Google called technology
[00:28:53] giants Yandex data centers, disrupting
[00:28:56] services for millions of users. In Russia, there were
[00:28:59] problems with ordering taxis, food, using payment
[00:29:02] systems and artificial intelligence services, while
[00:29:06] on social networks, internet users rejoice that after the Ukrainian
[00:29:10] strikes, Russian bots almost disappeared overnight,
[00:29:13] internet traffic monitoring data indeed
[00:29:16] shows significantly reduced automated Yandex network
[00:29:20] activity, although this does not yet prove that the Kremlin's propaganda
[00:29:23] bots have disappeared. Information security expert Vytautas Krekys
[00:29:27] in the studio, good day, good day, what do we generally know about
[00:29:30] uh Russian bot
[00:29:34] centers? First of all, one should understand what these bot centers
[00:29:38] and bot farms are, they are usually unsanctioned
[00:29:41] state-
[00:29:44] sponsored organizations that operate
[00:29:47] for state purposes, and those
[00:29:51] three purposes are such that they are either moving
[00:29:54] the political environment, implanting
[00:29:57] certain narratives, and
[00:29:59] fraud. From fraud, bot farms earn
[00:30:03] directly, from the first two, they probably have to receive some subsidies from
[00:30:06] states, so one way or another, such bot
[00:30:09] centers can operate only
[00:30:12] in shadow states like Russia, China,
[00:30:16] North Korea, and of course in those
[00:30:20] countries where the standard of living is low, such centers
[00:30:23] can also operate there,
[00:30:26] it is worth remembering that in 2025, one bot center
[00:30:29] was also stopped in Lithuania. "In Latvia,
[00:30:33] 5000 uh bots were caught
[00:30:37] in one criminal investigation.
[00:30:40] E, that Yandex data
[00:30:43] centers were damaged does not yet confirm
[00:30:47] the fact that bot farms are also destroyed, it can
[00:30:50] be assumed that Yandex data centers act as
[00:30:54] servers."