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[00:01:37] The coming night will be partly cloudy, with occasional rain in some places, mainly
[00:01:40] light rain, much fog, it will be 1-6 degrees Celsius, in some places
[00:01:44] 7-9 degrees Celsius, on the soil surface there will be local frosts down to
[00:01:47] 3 degrees Celsius, tomorrow during the day it will be partly cloudy, with local
[00:01:51] rain, mainly light, much fog in the morning, warming up to
[00:01:54] 10-15
[00:01:55] degrees.
[00:02:05] assess it at all, say that
[00:02:09] The United States administration warns Ukraine and its European
[00:02:13] allies that Washington may stop sharing intelligence
[00:02:16] data and no longer allow European countries to buy American
[00:02:20] weapons for Ukraine if Kyiv continues to attack Russian
[00:02:24] environment, Tusk said yesterday that energy facilities. These threats came after
[00:02:27] Donald Trump announced about allegedly concluded
[00:02:30] energy ceasefires, about which the news, at least to Ukrainians, was
[00:02:33] unexpected. In recent days, Trump
[00:02:37] has surprised the world with more than one statement, from the decision
[00:02:40] to conclude a diesel supply deal with the Kremlin to
[00:02:43] the demand to change the Ukrainian president. So today
[00:02:47] we ask you, how do you evaluate Trump's agreement with
[00:02:50] Putin on diesel? Logical, after
[00:02:53] all, America is first of all, is it a deal with
[00:02:56] the devil or who knows where it will lead? All three
[00:03:00] answer options are on the screen, you can scan the QR
[00:03:03] code or vote below the live broadcast window,
[00:03:07] we will review the results at the end of the show, now I am talking to
[00:03:10] Vytautas Magnus University Professor Gintautas Mažeikis, good
[00:03:13] afternoon, good afternoon, Mr.
[00:03:15] Mažeikis, in what world have we found ourselves
[00:03:19] when the United States imposes sanctions on Russia so that it
[00:03:23] would not have money for war, and after a few weeks its president himself
[00:03:26] agrees with Putin on Russian diesel?
[00:03:30] "We have found ourselves in a world of corrupt
[00:03:33] far-right. Corrupt far-right wants
[00:03:37] to make all sorts of deals and ignores
[00:03:40] democracy, democratic laws, those very laws
[00:03:44] that have already been adopted in the United States, approved by the Senate and
[00:03:47] Congress or signed earlier by previous
[00:03:50] presidents. In other words, for Donald Trump
[00:03:54] and his entourage, money is much more important
[00:03:57] than human life." personal profit, not
[00:04:00] democracy, glory, not
[00:04:04] justice, and here in this place, it is therefore quite
[00:04:08] understandable that he always wanted and intended and
[00:04:12] never hid his desire to be friends, communicate with Putin and in every way
[00:04:16] to appease him, but equally he would also like
[00:04:19] to communicate with Chinese leader
[00:04:22] Xi Jinping or praises and worships
[00:04:25] North Korea's Kim Jong-un, that is his
[00:04:28] choice. And he also wants to divide the European
[00:04:32] Union in every way, by financing, supporting, openly
[00:04:35] advocating for the far-right or
[00:04:38] the populist right side, accordingly
[00:04:41] ignoring and cursing all
[00:04:44] others, calling them communists, pro-communists or
[00:04:48] some kind of traitors, and in this way he is constructing a completely new
[00:04:52] world that America has not yet seen.
[00:04:56] Congressional elections are approaching and Americans are clearly
[00:04:58] dissatisfied with the current
[00:05:00] the world, economic situation, or are we witnessing
[00:05:03] a situation where domestic
[00:05:05] how many political interests begin to determine decisions on
[00:05:08] the survival of another state, because we also hear
[00:05:12] Trump's demands to change the Ukrainian
[00:05:14] president? Well,
[00:05:18] he thinks that by asking Putin for 3,000
[00:05:21] tons of diesel this month,
[00:05:24] that will change American
[00:05:27] prices strongly, sufficiently
[00:05:30] strongly, he is deeply mistaken. The United States itself
[00:05:33] exports about five million barrels
[00:05:36] of diesel per year, they are one of
[00:05:40] the largest exporters, and this is just business, buying
[00:05:43] cheaper, selling more expensive, nothing more than
[00:05:47] speculation. The probability that this will help him solve
[00:05:50] domestic problems is close to zero, but he probably doesn't
[00:05:54] worry much about the Republican Party.
[00:05:57] The only thing that worries him is his personal
[00:06:00] security and his family's security, he will take care of
[00:06:03] them. Well, and he has some
[00:06:06] fantasies, listening to nothing else, and those
[00:06:09] fantasies, in his opinion, should lead somewhere. And
[00:06:12] that into his imagined world, he
[00:06:15] fantasizes that he has already won the war against Iran, he
[00:06:18] fantasizes that peace has arisen between Russia and
[00:06:22] Ukraine in the energy
[00:06:25] sector, he fantasizes that he has
[00:06:28] ended eight or nine eight or nine
[00:06:31] wars, well, he lives in such a space, and
[00:06:34] the surrounding people, most importantly, that the surrounding services that help
[00:06:38] him, every day and every moment they flatter him in this
[00:06:42] his... irrationality and that destroys the world
[00:06:45] order. Professor, what do you think is more
[00:06:48] dangerous, Trump's deal with Putin,
[00:06:52] or the fact that such decisions are becoming normal?
[00:06:56] I think that this Trump
[00:06:58] deal with Putin is just the tip of the iceberg.
[00:07:02] Obviously, for such a trifle, no one would have negotiated,
[00:07:06] to begin with, this month, when the elections will be determined by these 300,000, as I already
[00:07:10] mentioned. barrels of nothing,
[00:07:13] diesel will mean nothing, change nothing,
[00:07:17] but most likely he has bigger agreements,
[00:07:21] more significant, much further
[00:07:24] reaching, and Ukraine in this place is just
[00:07:28] an obstacle, by the way, the European Union is also an obstacle, undoubtedly,
[00:07:32] that after Ukraine, the European Union will also suffer from
[00:07:36] America, ways will be sought to harm it, to dismantle
[00:07:39] it, and to use internal
[00:07:42] contradictions within the European Union.
[00:07:45] But when Russia is encouraged for its aggression, and
[00:07:49] Ukraine is forced to explain and justify why it
[00:07:53] defends itself, isn't a precedent
[00:07:56] being formed where the stronger
[00:08:00] imposes its will on the weaker, and
[00:08:03] what does that say about international law, about
[00:08:07] international order? One should read those thinkers
[00:08:11] and philosophers who surround Trump
[00:08:14] or the so-called MAGA movement, they all say
[00:08:17] the same thing, that the strongest, smartest, and
[00:08:20] richest must survive. An incredibly cynical view
[00:08:24] of the remaining democracy and its self-organization methods,
[00:08:28] and Trump represents this cynical view,
[00:08:31] for him, in fact, his personal
[00:08:34] income and pleasant conversations with
[00:08:38] Putin are much more important than hundreds or thousands
[00:08:42] of peaceful Ukrainian residents who
[00:08:45] died at that time, and they don't care about him at all, just as Putin probably
[00:08:49] doesn't care about his soldiers dying on the front
[00:08:52] line. Thus, two cynical individuals
[00:08:55] meet and enjoy conversations.
[00:08:59] Professor, briefly, because time is up, but
[00:09:01] from this situation, from
[00:09:05] such behavior of the United States president, are others
[00:09:07] learning, I mean Chinese,
[00:09:11] North Korean leaders?
[00:09:13] "Well, I don't think China and North Korea will be as
[00:09:17] cynical as Trump, they still
[00:09:20] do not represent that, let's say, oligarchic or
[00:09:23] corrupt capitalism, both
[00:09:25] these, North Korean and Chinese leaders, are still
[00:09:29] Communist Party or local,
[00:09:32] Korean or not, party
[00:09:36] implementers, they have a certain different vision of the world and probably
[00:09:40] deeply despise Trump in their hearts." but
[00:09:43] on the other hand, they would gladly want to
[00:09:45] use him. Professor of Vytautas Magnus University,
[00:09:49] Mr. Mažeikis, thank you for being
[00:09:52] with us. In four days, Ukrainian drones
[00:09:55] damaged three data centers of the Russian Google,
[00:09:59] called technology giant Yandex, disrupting
[00:10:02] services for millions of users. In Russia, there were
[00:10:05] problems communicating with taxis, ordering food, using payment
[00:10:08] systems, and artificial intelligence services. Meanwhile,
[00:10:11] on social networks, internet users rejoice that after
[00:10:15] Ukrainian strikes, almost overnight Russian
[00:10:19] bots disappeared. Internet site monitoring data, in
[00:10:22] fact, shows a sharply reduced automated Yandex
[00:10:26] network activity, although this does not yet prove that Kremlin propaganda
[00:10:30] bots have disappeared. Information security expert Vytautas Krekys
[00:10:33] in the studio, good afternoon, good afternoon, what do we know about
[00:10:36] Russian bot
[00:10:40] centers in general? First of all, one should understand what these bot
[00:10:44] centers and bot farms are. These are usually unauthorized
[00:10:47] state- sponsored
[00:10:50] organizations that operate for state purposes.
[00:10:55] And those three goals are such that it
[00:10:58] is either the manipulation of the political
[00:11:01] environment, the indoctrination of certain
[00:11:04] narratives, and
[00:11:07] fraud. Bot farms earn directly from fraud, and from the first two
[00:11:10] they probably have to get some subsidies from states, so one way or
[00:11:14] another, such bot centers can operate
[00:11:17] only in such shadowy states as
[00:11:21] Russia, China, North Korea, of course
[00:11:24] and... "in those countries where the standard
[00:11:27] of living is low, such centers can also
[00:11:30] operate, it is worth remembering that
[00:11:34] in 2025, one bot center was also shut down
[00:11:37] in Lithuania, in Latvia, 5,000
[00:11:41] bots were caught in one criminal
[00:11:45] investigation, and
[00:11:48] the fact that Yandex data centers were damaged
[00:11:52] does not yet confirm that bot farms are also..."
[00:11:55] destroyed, it can be assumed that Yandex data
[00:11:58] centers act as servers that helped those
[00:12:02] bot farms to mediate, because for a bot farm, the main
[00:12:06] requirement is that it must have thousands, hundreds of thousands
[00:12:09] of mobile phones or their SIM cards. As far
[00:12:13] as I have visited data centers, of course, this happened in Lithuania, not
[00:12:16] in Russia, but I have not seen
[00:12:20] such infrastructure where hundreds
[00:12:24] of thousands of mobile phones would be connected. But what
[00:12:27] does it mean if Ukraine hits or not, because that is seemingly a fact, we see
[00:12:31] images of hits on data centers,
[00:12:35] and you say that well, servers there can
[00:12:39] be damaged and therefore disruptions occur
[00:12:42] in bot farms, how does
[00:12:45] all this look in practice on social networks, because there is really
[00:12:48] a lot of rejoicing that well, overnight they disappeared and
[00:12:52] internet users write simple
[00:12:55] questions that used to provoke them a lot and say,
[00:12:59] look, no one comes running and starts educating and
[00:13:02] well yes, indeed from the internet today
[00:13:06] we see a decrease in those grannies with flowers or with
[00:13:09] kittens, their activity has significantly dropped, especially this is
[00:13:13] visible in Telegram channels, because it is obvious that Telegram
[00:13:17] was one of those social spaces where bots
[00:13:21] even had their own separate networks and
[00:13:25] only a rare living person could get in
[00:13:28] there and, having entered, would not understand what kind of bubble he
[00:13:31] was in, what kind of bubble he found himself in, but I repeat that
[00:13:35] it is not confirmed and Yandex itself, of course, it does not guarantee
[00:13:39] and will never officially say that here in one of our data
[00:13:42] centers there was a bot farm and it is now destroyed, they confirmed
[00:13:46] only one data center's destruction, the other two
[00:13:50] are confirmed by the Ukrainian side, but if
[00:13:53] for example, during this day well, internet users notice, maybe they
[00:13:56] want to notice, although you
[00:13:59] also say that in the Telegram channel there is indeed a
[00:14:03] decrease, how long can this last,
[00:14:06] if we assume that the server is destroyed, I don't want
[00:14:10] to speculate with terms and time,
[00:14:13] but I would like it to last as long as possible, first
[00:14:17] of all, but it can take up to
[00:14:20] several months to restore, I would like it to last at least several
[00:14:23] years, because we still need to build the data centers themselves,
[00:14:27] we don't know, because it is not officially declared what infrastructure
[00:14:30] they provide for bots, but in my
[00:14:33] understanding, these are mainly servers that
[00:14:37] split communication, redirect messages to one country, to another country,
[00:14:41] to one social network, to another social network, it is
[00:14:44] such a distribution server, a distribution machine, and the data
[00:14:48] centers themselves, it is likely that they are still somewhere where
[00:14:52] mainly a lot of electricity is needed, a lot
[00:14:55] of ventilation capabilities,
[00:14:58] air conditioning must be there, data centers are that
[00:15:01] infrastructure, but I
[00:15:04] have not been there and cannot guarantee that Yandex really
[00:15:07] had bot farms. You mention several months
[00:15:11] that may be needed to restore the servers,
[00:15:14] for internet users, again, this is perhaps a desire that
[00:15:17] restoring those bot farms could
[00:15:20] take up to a couple of years, until 2028, because they say, throughout
[00:15:25] chips are now needed, in general,
[00:15:30] materials and whether it is easy to get them on the market
[00:15:33] today, to make everything work again,
[00:15:36] bot farms are based, as I mentioned, on phones, SIM cards
[00:15:40] and random access memory. Random access memory
[00:15:43] is now mostly used for the development
[00:15:47] of artificial intelligence, as we know, Russia is not
[00:15:51] the most developed country in this
[00:15:54] regard, and all resources are usually directed to the
[00:15:57] state across the Atlantic.
[00:16:01] Let's hope that Putin will not
[00:16:04] have the ability to agree with China and with other
[00:16:07] chip-producing countries' leaders to give them
[00:16:11] priorities, and that restoration would indeed take at least
[00:16:15] several years. Thank you, information security expert Vytautas Krekys, thank you for
[00:16:18] coming to our studio.
[00:16:21] Foreign ministers of the European Union, gathered in Luxembourg, are discussing
[00:16:23] how to increase pressure on Russia.
[00:16:27] New sanctions are being approved for almost
[00:16:29] 1600 individuals and
[00:16:33] organizations connected with Russia's war industry. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis
[00:16:36] urges to go even further and
[00:16:40] recognize Russia's military intelligence (GRU) as a terrorist
[00:16:43] organization. The ministers also discuss Donald
[00:16:47] Trump's announced energy ceasefire, which Russia has not yet
[00:16:50] adhered to, the situation in the Middle East, and further
[00:16:54] enlargement of the European Union. I will talk to my colleague Milda Velikanskytė
[00:16:58] working in Luxembourg, and immediately ask Milda,
[00:17:01] how do the European Union foreign ministers react
[00:17:04] to the United States and
[00:17:07] Russia's, or rather, one should say Trump's and Putin's
[00:17:11] agreement on
[00:17:12] diesel?
[00:17:15] Hello Rasa, good afternoon LRT Television viewers, well, in fact, it can be said that
[00:17:19] there are no very emotional, resonant reactions, they are very
[00:17:22] restrained and probably that
[00:17:26] assessment should be looked at from two
[00:17:30] components, that is, first of all, about the agreement itself, about
[00:17:34] its content, that Russia will supply diesel.
[00:17:37] So, here the foreign ministers, if they
[00:17:43] they doubt that it will have
[00:17:46] a direct impact on fuel
[00:17:48] prices, petrol stations, the fuel market in general, and at the same time
[00:17:52] they say that it is probably more directed at United
[00:17:55] States domestic politics, because midterm elections are approaching,
[00:17:59] and precisely with that in mind, the United
[00:18:02] States president made that agreement and one should not
[00:18:06] look for a choice
[00:18:09] of sides in the war in Ukraine and so on. The other
[00:18:12] component would be precisely that the United
[00:18:16] States president decided to cooperate with
[00:18:20] Vladimir Putin and to talk and negotiate,
[00:18:23] so here there are no emotional reactions,
[00:18:27] no condemnation, no loud indignation, at least
[00:18:30] publicly, at least on camera, and what the foreign
[00:18:34] ministers talk about is that this is not the first time that the United
[00:18:37] States and specifically President Donald Trump's
[00:18:41] positions fluctuate, sometimes he seems to lean more
[00:18:44] towards Vladimir Putin's side, sometimes
[00:18:48] one gets the impression that he is inclined to support
[00:18:51] Volodymyr Zelensky, so they say, well, this is not the first time and
[00:18:55] most likely not the last time that these
[00:18:58] fluctuations are seen, and as Kęstutis Budrys, the Lithuanian foreign
[00:19:02] minister says, well, in his assessment, this is not
[00:19:05] the worst that we have seen in the last two
[00:19:08] years, but he notes that the
[00:19:12] lack of coordination of actions between Europe and
[00:19:15] the United States weakens Western positions, but we can
[00:19:19] listen to a few
[00:19:21] comments.
[00:19:25] The United States are our biggest allies, but our
[00:19:28] message is clear: if we want to end this war, the only way
[00:19:32] is to pressure Russia, therefore we call on the United States to apply
[00:19:36] sanctions to all. If there were no processing plants attacking, they
[00:19:40] would not be needed if the war was over. We have seen more than one
[00:19:43] rise and such a diplomatic decline
[00:19:46] in the path between the US, Ukraine and the US
[00:19:50] role in such changes, let's say,
[00:19:53] both being more in the middle, and being more towards
[00:19:55] Ukraine, and speaking about all efforts to find
[00:19:59] peace, well, this last episode is not what
[00:20:03] we have seen, let's say, the worst, in almost
[00:20:06] two years. And we can truly regret it, because it
[00:20:10] does not help to achieve a coordinated European and
[00:20:13] United States policy in the field
[00:20:16] of sanctions against Russia.
[00:20:20] Let's look at ourselves: the European Union was the first to remove two important
[00:20:23] oligarchs, some of the biggest supporters of the Putin regime, from the sanctions
[00:20:27] list. Therefore, before criticizing others, the European Union
[00:20:30] needs to look in
[00:20:31] the mirror.
[00:20:35] Indeed, the sanctions that the ministers are
[00:20:39] approving today are the largest list
[00:20:42] of individuals and organizations
[00:20:45] to date, 1600. How effective
[00:20:48] is it?
[00:20:52] "Yes, that's exactly what everyone emphasizes, that never before
[00:20:56] have so many been included in the sanctions list at once, and
[00:20:59] despite the fact that two oligarchs were removed in
[00:21:02] September, which the Lithuanian Foreign Minister also
[00:21:06] called a regrettable step, he said that on the other
[00:21:09] hand, the countries that opposed the removal benefited from
[00:21:12] this, because now this sanctions
[00:21:16] list is being approved
[00:21:18] for three years." Not for six months, and then meeting again every six months
[00:21:22] to extend it, but for 36 months, and that
[00:21:26] is indeed a victory. Of those 1600
[00:21:29] individuals that the ministers must approve today, as you Rasa and
[00:21:33] mentioned, mainly representatives of the Russian
[00:21:36] military industry dominate, both natural and legal persons,
[00:21:40] drone manufacturers, as well as those who participated
[00:21:44] in organizing sham elections in the occupied
[00:21:47] territories of Ukraine, in the Russian Duma. Elections in those
[00:21:50] territories, those individuals will not
[00:21:54] be allowed to enter the territory of the European Union,
[00:21:57] their assets here will be frozen, and it is also desired
[00:22:01] to restrict or completely disconnect them from the international
[00:22:04] payment system, but some member states say
[00:22:08] that's not enough, we shouldn't stop here, we need to move forward
[00:22:12] and exert as much pressure
[00:22:15] as possible on Russia. We can listen to the German
[00:22:17] minister.
[00:22:20] "Every euro, every dollar that flows into Putin's Russian treasury through energy purchases
[00:22:24] will be used by Russia to produce and
[00:22:28] use new weapons against Ukraine.
[00:22:31] "
[00:22:35] But here's such, let's say, a sad paradox, probably, how
[00:22:38] sometimes words differ from actions, because
[00:22:41] the media just last week reported that
[00:22:44] during the first nine months of this year, the European
[00:22:48] Union imported a record amount of liquefied
[00:22:51] natural gas from the Russian Arctic program,
[00:22:55] almost more than 12 million tons, and for those
[00:22:59] 12 million tons, the European Union paid Russia
[00:23:03] approximately eight billion euros. So, on the one hand, we
[00:23:07] talk about the need to pressure Russia, every
[00:23:10] euro goes towards producing weapons against
[00:23:13] Ukraine, on the other hand, we import liquefied natural
[00:23:17] gas, because here we need to remember that
[00:23:20] pipeline imports are already banned, and specifically
[00:23:23] the import of liquefied natural gas will be banned from
[00:23:26] January 1, 2027. So, countries
[00:23:29] are rushing and trying
[00:23:55] In Poland, a man around 60 years old was detained, suspected
[00:23:58] of preparing an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Officials learned
[00:24:01] about the possible attack after receiving a report that the Polish defense
[00:24:05] minister might be in danger. According to media
[00:24:08] reports, firearms may have been used in the attack,
[00:24:12] but officials have not yet confirmed this. Who and why
[00:24:16] might have planned the assassination is also still being investigated.
[00:24:19] Colleague, baitė in the studio, good day, hello, what exactly
[00:24:22] is known, Indre? Very little is actually known,
[00:24:26] from yesterday, practically there are only
[00:24:28] isolated news, of course, how everything more or less happened, that
[00:24:32] at 7:00 AM Tusk was informed about
[00:24:35] the possible threat, at 11:00 AM a special
[00:24:38] meeting was convened, which was attended by police, as well as high-ranking officials.
[00:24:42] security service and internal intelligence
[00:24:45] officials, around five o'clock, and here we are talking about Polish time, the person
[00:24:49] you already mentioned, a man between
[00:24:52] 60-70 years old, was detained. It is stated that he is a Polish
[00:24:55] citizen. Officials say that he was found
[00:24:58] by analyzing social networks and the wider
[00:25:01] internet. It was discovered, it is said,
[00:25:04] very radical statements, that he belonged to
[00:25:08] certain radical groups in social
[00:25:11] networks, and that is how he was found. Searches were conducted at his
[00:25:15] home and it is also said that other actively operating
[00:25:18] individuals in those groups are also being checked. So, in essence,
[00:25:22] that's all the specific news. Various variants are being investigated.
[00:25:26] Local journalists, which is an interesting detail, we see how
[00:25:29] quickly everything happened, from the first report and informing the prime minister
[00:25:33] to the arrest. But local journalists noted that very
[00:25:37] serious language was used both by the
[00:25:40] police and other services, as well as by the
[00:25:43] prime minister himself, that it was even said a mortally serious
[00:25:47] threat, that it was believed that... there really is that
[00:25:50] threat, so it creates such an image, at least
[00:25:53] for us who don't know more details, that it was really
[00:25:57] assessed that the threat is high-level. True,
[00:26:00] the prime minister did not participate in it on Sunday.
[00:26:02] In another meeting, he had stayed and was in Warsaw, so
[00:26:06] it was not noticed that there would be more security, for example, staff around
[00:26:09] him. There was the same security as
[00:26:12] always, so it did not affect the agenda, the meeting
[00:26:16] still took place and the meeting also discussed
[00:26:19] radicalization and violence experienced by
[00:26:23] Poland last week in schools. But that threat
[00:26:26] seems to have been carefully considered. Of course,
[00:26:29] the question, knowing Poland, knowing its
[00:26:32] Ukraine, or is it suspected that it is somehow related to Russia or even
[00:26:36] Belarus? So officials are very cautious in choosing their
[00:26:39] words. They say that they do not rule out
[00:26:42] carefully investigating, but for now there are no signs that it could be
[00:26:46] somehow related to foreign forces, but
[00:26:49] again, what observers note is that even if it is
[00:26:52] not related to Russia, Belarus or or even
[00:26:55] the conflict, the war, which is happening across the border, that it can
[00:26:59] have a certain influence on people who might be
[00:27:02] also susceptible to those threats related to the war and
[00:27:06] rising various hybrid threats, so that it
[00:27:10] can affect their perception and support
[00:27:13] for Ukraine, for example. You mentioned that officials
[00:27:17] are carefully choosing their words when talking about this still
[00:27:21] ongoing incident, but still, probably the main
[00:27:24] versions in the same media or at least
[00:27:28] the news about those radical groups
[00:27:31] are... what specifically
[00:27:35] could they have been dissatisfied with,
[00:27:38] in other words, is it more related to domestic or
[00:27:41] foreign policy? In the media, as far as I have read
[00:27:45] Polish media, it is viewed very cautiously, because again, the
[00:27:48] environment, considering that for more than a month now
[00:27:52] there has been talk about hybrid threats, the school
[00:27:55] incidents where there were attempts to stab, minors engaged in such
[00:27:59] violent activity, I don't know what to call it, so... it is very
[00:28:02] cautiously evaluated. Tusk himself, and it should be
[00:28:06] said, that today an operation has been launched to send about
[00:28:09] 20,000
[00:28:12] police officers to schools, and yes, there are more police on the streets after those
[00:28:15] stabbings. Over 100
[00:28:19] people have been detained, about
[00:28:21] 80,000 schools have been checked. So in this whole
[00:28:26] there is a noticeable rhetoric directed at politicians and calls
[00:28:30] to resort to violence. And
[00:28:34] by the way, in August, a 23-year-old was detained
[00:28:37] for calling for attacks on high-ranking Polish politicians. So in this whole
[00:28:41] space, he talks about
[00:28:45] radicalization specifically online, that the
[00:28:47] idealization of violence is spreading, that
[00:28:51] people are being encouraged to take action,
[00:28:54] such a strong cult of personality, and all of this is
[00:28:58] Tusk not necessarily linking the attack, the assassination attempt, to...
[00:29:03] but this whole environment that we now see in Poland, he linked it to
[00:29:06] that, to various calls spreading online,
[00:29:09] and for example, one guy, his age not stated,
[00:29:13] seems to be a minor, was among those 135, was
[00:29:16] detained because it was found that he had created a model of his
[00:29:20] school in the popular online game Roblox and had
[00:29:23] initiated, that he attacks his classmates or other
[00:29:27] school students, so he was also detained...
[00:29:30] Another one was questioned or whether any charges were filed is unclear, but
[00:29:34] well, through all of this, now in Poland, other
[00:29:37] various threats, especially
[00:29:41] to politicians, are being looked at, but also the whole environment in schools, essentially.
[00:29:44] Thank you, colleague Indre Urbaitė, thank you for coming to
[00:29:48] the studio.
[00:29:50] And Vilnius 2009 and Kaunas
[00:29:53] 2022 have been European
[00:29:56] Capitals of Culture. Next year, the title of European Capital of Culture
[00:30:00] will be shared by Liepaja,
[00:30:02] located on the Latvian coast, together with the Portuguese
[00:30:06] city of Evora. Last weekend, Liepaja presented its Capital of Culture
[00:30:10] theme and program. Jovita Gaižauskaitė and Paulius Juocnukis report from Liepaja.
[00:30:14] Next year, Liepaja will become the European Capital of Culture.
[00:30:17] Latvia's third largest city, with about
[00:30:20] 67,000 inhabitants, a port city and
[00:30:23] resort, will dictate next year's cultural trends.
[00:30:27] The theme is Unrest. We talk to the city mayor
[00:30:30] about how Liepaja is preparing for this
[00:30:32] title.
[00:30:34] A very large
[00:30:37] team has been working on the Capital of Culture events for several years now. Next year, we expect
[00:30:40] even more Lithuanians in Liepaja.