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00:00:01would get on that bike, so she would normally
00:00:05ride a bike with a skirt, and so
00:00:08on. And I see that when
00:00:11I'm 80, I think it won't be any different, it will only be
00:00:15some electric scooter or some other
00:00:18flying board in those days and so on. But
00:00:22let's go back to children, what about children? And children with children,
00:00:26I bow my head to all teachers in schools."
00:00:31"And really, in my time, we didn't have such
00:00:34great rights, actually, but
00:00:37I'm discovering my methods, so that
00:00:40tantrums don't arise, so that I don't start
00:00:43shouting. Then I stay silent,
00:00:47completely, yes, I stay silent and wait, I stay silent,
00:00:50aha.
00:00:55I just make sure their heads don't get twisted and that all the lights
00:00:58in the center are on." "And then they
00:01:01ask me, they are like, when you go silent, then
00:01:05ma'am, why are you silent here? I wait,
00:01:09what am I waiting for, I say, until you finish here,
00:01:12aha. And then we won't finish? Well, then there will be no
00:01:16dessert, no dessert, and then, and these are
00:01:19the ones, and then they stop, they go silent, like little monkeys, I'll always
00:01:23intervene, yes, because I also work with children,
00:01:27but, ah, yes, if you raise your voice too much or
00:01:31you get upset yourself, then nothing, you get absolutely the same
00:01:34resonance, and the ideal, meaning
00:01:38rehearsal and lesson, was when I was really voiceless, but I still
00:01:41had to go to work, right? I have no voice at all, I hung
00:01:45up a sign, I have no
00:01:47voice, they
00:01:49are like,
00:01:53how,
00:01:57aha, what are we going to do now?
00:02:00I write, mhm, I play music,
00:02:03something was perfect, this is how
00:02:06they wouldn't have taken me as a child with such things, they would have needed at least tasers to shut me
00:02:10up. Vyacheslav, you know, you gave me a very good idea, what? I
00:02:14will buy a taser, and next time I'll bring it
00:02:18to the filming, maybe a sign too, then he will
00:02:21use it, he will say, now you, wait, wait, wait, you sit on the sofa,
00:02:25here in my place, and then, so to speak, and so on
00:02:28and so forth, the train. And the one with the arrows,
00:02:32and that, then it has protection underneath,
00:02:35well, we'll figure something out, I'll prepare
00:02:39for the next filming, Inga, and what is related to, how
00:02:42is the story related to Easter and the pig's
00:02:46snout, I know there is such a thing,
00:02:49yes, well, what is that story?
00:02:54front, then you present it This is television, yes, this is a
00:02:56television,
00:02:58yes, this was, very funny. But we also want
00:03:00to laugh, oh, I can't, don't be selfish,
00:03:04tell it quickly, I was very bravely
00:03:08joking, but in short it was like this, there was a
00:03:11show, I don't know, for how long it was on LNK for
00:03:15one season, it seems, m,
00:03:18oh my, about talents, well,
00:03:21in short, talents gathered, I sat on the jury, next to me was the late
00:03:25Cololo, it was a truly excellent solid jury
00:03:28and respected. Valinskas, it seems, and acts
00:03:31quickly, well, normal, that means I sit in the corner,
00:03:35and in short, I participated in one show and another, after that my friends
00:03:39don't create there classmates,
00:03:42they say, it will be Easter, just every Sunday we would have a live
00:03:46broadcast and they say, it will be Easter and we will watch that show
00:03:50only if you give us a sign to
00:03:52greet us, mhm, well, somehow we just thought of it, because you are
00:03:56there on TV, you are there humiliating me here already.
00:04:00She remained a star here, I say okay, she says, will you be able to give a sign,
00:04:04what kind of sign, well, I say, I'll take this one and
00:04:07do this, meaning at some point I'll nod, meaning I greet
00:04:11you for Easter, and I sit
00:04:13the show damn, now I have to show it and
00:04:16the screen like that and I have to catch when they show me and
00:04:20it's a live broadcast aha, well I sit like that
00:04:23and I see someone, I need to think of something not very
00:04:26talented to get, well, so that the producer doesn't get angry,
00:04:30with my hand down I sit, I sit and
00:04:33I look and they show me, I did this
00:04:37once and I didn't look if we caught it or not,
00:04:40damn it and again I sit like that
00:04:44and again like that and again and
00:04:47you know, it was three times it was three times
00:04:50and oh, the producer comes and
00:04:54why are you doing that, I say I'm thinking if he's talented
00:04:58I say otherwise me? "I
00:05:01can't, I need to think, a lot of
00:05:04oxygen, yes, and that's it, and then after the show
00:05:07the crew, they call laughing, thank you, my dear, you
00:05:11managed to look so ugly on TV, they invited me
00:05:14again, and then, you know, they kicked me out of that show,
00:05:18so
00:05:18that's
00:05:22probably the moral of this story, so now I've revealed it, you tell me why I did
00:05:26this, that's probably the moral of this show, that
00:05:29for friends it's better not to do anything during the show, yes, but believe me, I've
00:05:33messed up even without friends, oh, I don't know, I don't know, guys,
00:05:37congratulations to everyone, congratulations to everyone, well, it's not
00:05:41Easter yet, but it's close.
00:05:45Brazauskas' funeral is taking place on LRT2, a serious
00:05:48funeral, so this is already a serious live broadcast, but before
00:05:51the live broadcast, there is a phone call via Skype, someone was supposed
00:05:55to connect to Skype, Mandrigis Miliute is sitting there, hosting, Valatka is sitting, sitting, sitting
00:05:59or someone else, so I'm also all you know, and somehow, well,
00:06:02since we're sitting there 8,000, even 7.
00:06:06The funeral is going on for a very long time, and in between, we somehow remember
00:06:09Brazauskas. At that time, I could imitate Brazauskas. Brazauskas used to say,
00:06:13what a babatukas, what, what a babatukas, where is the babatukas, I don't know
00:06:16any babatukas. Someone asks Brazauskas, what is a babatukas? And so, I somehow
00:06:20did such a thing, probably more talented than now, because everything was fresh,
00:06:24and somehow at that time the sound was being tested and my
00:06:27babatukas from the train recorded and into the live
00:06:30broadcast, when we start talking, the Skype connection is pressed and
00:06:34it says, what a babatukas, where is the babatukas, three
00:06:37times, how, how did this happen,
00:06:40no one can say. We are most ashamed, at first they think, babatukas
00:06:44babatukas, oh my god, they turn off that Skype, they say, connection failed, they turn it on again, again
00:06:48babatukas,
00:06:51so this is, this was one of those things, where it was mysterious, Binuta
00:06:54said, Rita said, we need to cross ourselves here, now for the next, the next
00:06:58segment, oh, well, with that cheerful note, we will
00:07:01conclude our conversation today. This evening, ladies
00:07:05and gentlemen, we tried to live without labels, I don't know how well
00:07:08we succeeded, ah, but
00:07:11to see. that the former group member Meda from
00:07:14the series or a communication guru, that behind these
00:07:18labels hide truly excellent cheerful people, who
00:07:22cut grass barefoot, and read countless books, sing
00:07:25songs, write poetry, and simply live
00:07:28life. Thank you for being with us today, we'll see you in a week.
00:08:04of gratitude, hope, and
00:08:06community.
00:08:12Yes, in Pivašiūnai. Live broadcast of Holy Mass on
00:08:15August 15th,
00:08:19Saturday at 12:00 on LRT
00:08:22television. Weekend detectives on
00:08:26LRT television. Saturday. A priest whose
00:08:29insight helps uncover the most complex
00:08:32crimes. Father Brown.
00:08:35Sunday, a policewoman and her assistant with
00:08:39a special ability to notice what others miss.
00:08:42"Stunning minds, intriguing mysteries
00:08:46and unexpected plot twists, on weekends on
00:08:49LRT television.
00:08:52The plan is clear: not to faint and
00:08:55not to turn to stone. How will it be
00:08:58implemented? In what way?
00:09:00An intriguing game of librarians
00:09:04in the golden mind summer league. Oh
00:09:07no, I won't say, I won't even say, because it will be embarrassing,
00:09:10yes, this Friday. 9 PM
00:09:14on LRT television. Hello, I'm in the super final.
00:10:22Good afternoon, 15, the most important events of the day. In the news program, in the studio, I am
00:10:26Marijus Žiedas. Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė, signatory of the March
00:10:2911th Act, the first head of the Lithuanian government after the restoration of
00:10:33independence, was buried in the signers' hill of the Antakalnis cemetery in Vilnius.
00:10:36During the farewell, Arvydas Juozaitis, a member of the Sąjūdis initiative group, recalled that
00:10:40Prunskienė and Meilė Lukšienė were the only women in this group
00:10:44and emphasized that it was the first Lithuanian Prime Minister who visited the United
00:10:47States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and established ties
00:10:51with Western countries during the Moscow economic blockade. According to
00:10:55signatory Vytelis Andriukaitis, being the first is a difficult test, especially
00:10:58during an era of upheaval. Economic blockade, difficult reforms,
00:11:02meetings with world leaders to break the Soviet-initiated
00:11:05blockade. Brunskienė died last week at the age
00:11:08of 84.
00:11:13According to Robert Kaunas, the Minister of National Defense, the available intelligence information
00:11:17suggests that Russia is considering a hybrid attack
00:11:20against the Baltic states and Poland. Ukrainian
00:11:24drones could be used for this, meaning, they could be
00:11:27launched against Lithuania or other countries in the region with critical
00:11:30infrastructure. According to the Minister, Lithuania has already taken additional security
00:11:34measures, and object protection has been strengthened. Russia, according to
00:11:37the Minister, has not yet made a decision on such an attack. Their whole
00:11:41goal is to influence NATO, intimidate the populations of the Baltic states and Poland,
00:11:44and, since Ukrainian drones would be used,
00:11:47to sow discord among allies. Recently, Ukrainian attacks have caused
00:11:51significant damage to Russian infrastructure. The Kremlin has publicly accused
00:11:54the Baltic countries of carrying out attacks from their
00:11:58territories deep into Russia. In the near future,
00:12:02something specific will happen in the coming days, there is no such
00:12:05date, ah, we are observing
00:12:08Russia's, well, planning, ah,
00:12:11let's say, moment, what other NATO countries,
00:12:15Poland, the Baltic neighbors, other
00:12:18NATO states have communicated very clearly
00:12:22many times. saying that
00:12:25we see, we hear, we know, and let's not do that, it
00:12:28is, like history, an old
00:12:31strategic, Soviet Russian way of thinking, ah,
00:12:35pressure or
00:12:38take two aggressive steps forward,
00:12:41then you can fix certain conditions for agreement,
00:12:45which will be like some kind of
00:12:48concession from your side, and then you will fix that situation,
00:12:51for example, Ukraine's. ah in potential
00:12:55some negotiations, as a kind of concession, that
00:12:59is, you created a problem, you created
00:13:02a supposed problem in the Baltic countries, ah you
00:13:05can say that there will probably be no
00:13:09more such problems, you won't do it again, but then that
00:13:13situation, which you want to fix on the Ukrainian
00:13:19as certain conditions for agreement.
00:13:22After
00:13:25information appeared that the Russian Kaliningrad region court
00:13:28found a Lithuanian citizen guilty in an espionage case, the State Security
00:13:31Department says that such information is known to intelligence, but
00:13:34states that it cannot provide comments. The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign
00:13:38Affairs also says it knows about the convicted person and is currently seeking
00:13:42official information about the conviction of the Lithuanian
00:13:45citizen through diplomatic channels. According to the independent Russian news website
00:13:48Mediazona, Alexander Polyakov was sentenced to 13.5
00:13:52years in prison. The ministry does not confirm
00:13:55this information. As reported by Interfax, the convicted person was sentenced
00:13:58to imprisonment in a strict-regime colony, his phone was confiscated, and
00:14:02special means were not used to commit the crime. According to
00:14:05the court, the accused collected and transferred information constituting
00:14:08state secrets on Russian territory from 2011 to 2024,
00:14:12which could have been used to harm Russian state
00:14:15security.
00:14:19German officials are still investigating how a drone armed with explosives
00:14:23reached a strategically important airport yesterday, where the Ukrainian
00:14:27Antonov aircraft base operates. The Minister of Internal Affairs stated that the incident
00:14:30is considered a scenario of a hybrid attack. He said that the technologies
00:14:34used indicate that the operation might have been carried out
00:14:36by professionals. The media reports that the drone carried about
00:14:40800 grams of military explosives. While the airport was
00:14:43closed, another nearby aircraft reported encountering
00:14:47an unknown object. NATO experts will also participate
00:14:50in the investigation of the incident.
00:14:55to say that we must evaluate this as a very serious security incident. In my
00:14:58opinion, we are facing a hybrid attack scenario, which unfolded
00:15:02as follows. Last night, a drone was spotted
00:15:06near Leipzig airport. This drone contained explosives. This is a new
00:15:10level of threat. In the past, we encountered drones and the threats
00:15:13they posed, also in a hybrid context, but a drone armed
00:15:16with explosives in the airport territory is a new threat
00:15:20scenario.
00:15:23In Russia's Yaroslavl region. After a Ukrainian drone attack,
00:15:26a large oil refinery is burning. Services are trying to extinguish
00:15:30the fire. Local officials report that falling drone debris
00:15:34hit the oil refinery's storage tanks.
00:15:37250 km northeast of
00:15:41Moscow. The Ukrainian president stated that drones also struck
00:15:44an oil refinery in the Republic of Bashkortostan.
00:15:48In Ukraine, a Russian drone struck a railway station in the Kharkiv region. Two
00:15:52people died, eight more were injured. In the neighboring Sumy region, Russian drones
00:15:55killed three people. Attacks are not subsiding in the Black Sea
00:15:59cities either. In the Odesa region, when a drone attacked a civilian grain ship,
00:16:03one person died, three
00:16:04were injured.
00:16:08"In the swing state of Michigan, it has become clear who will represent the Democrats
00:16:11in the Senate elections in the fall. Abdul El-Sayed, a leftist of Egyptian
00:16:14descent, is celebrating a narrow victory. His
00:16:18victory over the more moderate centrist candidate is seen by analysts as an important
00:16:22sign for the Democratic Party, which is still searching for its
00:16:26identity before the mid-term elections.
00:16:29The President's speech in Las Vegas was supposed to be about the economy, but when it
00:16:33is interrupted by the war with Iran, the statements quickly turned to hatred.
00:16:37Donald Trump curses the leftist Democrat Abdul El-Sayed,
00:16:41who won the Michigan election.
00:16:43He doesn't love Israel, he doesn't love
00:16:47Jews, he hates them, he hates them with all his heart and can't
00:16:50do anything about it. The Michigan election decided who
00:16:54will represent the Democrats in the Senate race in the fall. Leftist
00:16:58Elsayed narrowly defeated moderate Democrat
00:17:01Haley Stevens, who was supported by pro-Israel
00:17:04groups.
00:17:07I spent summers in Egypt, there I could understand what life
00:17:11would be like if I had been born there, but I was born in America, I was
00:17:14vaccinated against diseases that killed an aunt and uncle I never
00:17:18got to know.
00:17:22In the swing state of Michigan, where Trump narrowly won
00:17:25the presidential election twice, the fall race
00:17:28will be crucial. It will determine whether Democrats can regain control of the Senate.
00:17:32To secure its control and thus the ability to block most
00:17:35of Trump's agenda for the remainder of his term, Democrats must
00:17:39hold Michigan and take over four Republican seats
00:17:43in other parts of the country.
00:17:46In response to the question of whether there is a prevailing sentiment
00:17:49in the swing state against immoderate candidates who
00:17:53have not previously held elected office. And whether there is a prevailing sentiment against
00:17:57Muslim candidates. The Michigan fight is seen as much
00:18:00broader. The Democratic Party is searching for its identity after losing the election
00:18:04to Trump. Communists, Marxists, socialists and... globalists
00:18:07have already had their chance, and their legacy is only
00:18:10disaster. As Trump declares war on the left, his supporters,
00:18:14at least in Michigan, seem to be uniting even more. Al-Sayed,
00:18:17who has a medical background, is congratulated by the recently elected
00:18:20mayor of New York, who calls himself a socialist. This shows how
00:18:24much the Republican Party has alienated itself from the concerns
00:18:27of the American working class. Al-Sayed now says he is a capitalist and
00:18:31has distanced himself from the Democratic Socialists of America organization, but he
00:18:35supports a non-privatized healthcare system. He advocates for a wealth
00:18:38tax, greater state control in social policy, and
00:18:42seeks to soften Trump's strict immigration
00:18:44controls.
00:18:47Latvian border guards suspect that they lack hundreds of officers, and if
00:18:51Belarus increases the flow of migrants, they will not be able to cope.
00:18:55The deputy head of the border service told Latvian radio that their forces have long been
00:18:58exhausted. The Prime Minister mentions plans to involve the army more, but for now
00:19:02does not promise tougher sanctions against Minsk. At the same time, Estonia
00:19:06returned the first eight held
00:19:07migrants to Latvia.
00:19:11The only still functioning border crossing with Belarus was reopened
00:19:14after almost a week-long break, which officials explained by technical
00:19:18problems. This delighted carriers, but
00:19:21border guards say that if the crossing were completely closed, the 100 border guards
00:19:24working there could be redirected elsewhere, to protect
00:19:28the most vulnerable sections of the border. The Border
00:19:31Service warned the Ministry of Internal Affairs that even under normal
00:19:34conditions, there is a shortage of one and a half officers. To repel a larger
00:19:38migrant attack, another 400 would be needed.
00:19:42Broader involvement of the
00:19:43army is also being considered.
00:19:47It is very important and encouraging that the Ministries of Defense and Internal Affairs
00:19:50and the army are cooperating. There is a concrete plan, and the main goal is
00:19:54to cut off the main arteries of this operation.
00:19:57The main artery is the transport network, it has become a business where
00:20:01drivers are hired to transport migrants. If you remove this,
00:20:05if you remove the support networks in Latvia. "The whole operation will become
00:20:08significantly less attractive, wandering through forests and swamps and not knowing where
00:20:12you will end up.
00:20:15Estonian border guards have increased patrols not only along the border with
00:20:19Latvia, but also where migrants may travel further to the Nordic
00:20:22countries, at airports and ports. Yesterday, for the first
00:20:25time, eight Ethiopian citizens were returned
00:20:28to Latvia.
00:20:30This year, we have already identified and detained over 100 people due to
00:20:34illegal migration in Estonian territory." In comparison,
00:20:38last year we detained 39 people
00:20:41for illegal migration, which is a significant
00:20:42change.
00:20:45Estonian, as well as Lithuanian and Finnish border guards, help protect the border
00:20:49with... Belarus in Latvia itself, but its border
00:20:52service says that the situation is already dramatic and its forces
00:20:56have long been exhausted, without additional resources, it will become
00:20:59impossible to protect itself, especially if pressure from Belarus
00:21:03increases. The government has already announced sanctions to restrict
00:21:06the import of Belarusian goods.
00:21:09We are considering all options, and this is one of the unresolved issues,
00:21:13to take action against Belarus for deliberately launching this hybrid
00:21:16attack against us.
00:21:20The tightened border regime has been introduced until the end
00:21:23of this year.
00:21:26The opposition Nemuno aušros party has risen to third
00:21:30place in the ratings table. The Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats are still first,
00:21:33according to a public opinion poll conducted in July by the news portal
00:21:37Delfi and the company Spinter tyrimai. The ruling social democrats are in
00:21:40second place. At the same time, in the prime minister's position, most respondents
00:21:43continue to see the former prime minister, conservative Ingrida
00:21:46Šimonytė. The chairman of Nemunas aušra, Žemaitaitis, rose to second place.
00:21:50The current prime minister, social democrat chairman Mindaugas
00:21:53Sinkevičius, is
00:21:54third.
00:21:57Today, a storm, gusty winds, or even a squall
00:22:01are forecast in different Lithuanian cities. In the afternoon, short
00:22:05rains with thunderstorms are expected in most parts of the country, and in southern Lithuania, a squall and
00:22:08hail may occur. According to the Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service,
00:22:12it is forecast that the strongest storms may move through the Marijampolė,
00:22:16Alytus, Kaunas, and Vilnius counties. Some residents of the country
00:22:19also received warnings from the resident warning system on their phones that due to
00:22:22the heavy storm, trees may fall and electricity may go out. The service
00:22:26emphasized that summer thunderstorms are difficult to forecast, so the location
00:22:29where the most powerful storm clouds will form may still
00:22:32change. We are expecting heavy rain in
00:22:36a short period of time, when more than 15
00:22:39mm of rain will fall, squally wind strengthening also more than
00:22:4315 m per second, those sudden ones and hail from
00:22:476 mm. Everything will depend heavily on the development
00:22:50of the clouds, so it might be that
00:22:53we will experience something similar, when really large amounts
00:22:57of rain will fall in a very short time, ah, again
00:23:00the trajectory, how those clouds will
00:23:04travel, it will depend, because it might be that in a very
00:23:07small narrow strip we will experience such
00:23:11more intense, let's say, those showers, and elsewhere just such
00:23:14summery thunderstorms and heavy
00:23:17rains will sweep through.
00:23:20For the first time in Lithuania, a gastronomy strategy will be
00:23:23organized. According to it, over the next decade, the country will aim to attract
00:23:26world-class events, more chefs to encourage the creation of exceptional
00:23:30dishes. The Minister of Economy and Innovation states that Lithuania
00:23:33aims to become a gastronomy center in the region, thus intending to attract
00:23:37new investments and more tourists. A survey conducted in Lithuania
00:23:40showed that 79% of tourists
00:23:43choose Lithuania for gastronomic experiences, almost as many for
00:23:47nature and culture.
00:23:50This ambition today might seem to you like a utopia and
00:23:53that it's impossible, but Lithuania as a gastronomy
00:23:57mecca in the next 10 years. Gastronomy, well,
00:24:00has long become one of the essential components
00:24:04of tourism, tourism economic directions,
00:24:07and this is always, what I constantly repeat, is also a window into
00:24:10Lithuania. For new incoming tourists, from the same
00:24:14countries from which we expect many, it is an opportunity to expand the circle
00:24:18of countries from which we attract tourists, and you know, from
00:24:22such visits, relationships are established even with
00:24:24investors.
00:24:28Valdas Dambrauskas' led Baku Sabah club started the
00:24:31third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League with a loss, but the Azerbaijani champions
00:24:35preserved their chances of moving forward. Dambrauskas praised the opposing
00:24:38footballer who scored two goals and admitted that the better
00:24:42team doesn't always win on the field.
00:24:46The Baku Sabah footballers, coached by one of Lithuania's best football specialists,
00:24:50are competing in the third qualifying round against the Danish Aarhus club. Due to
00:24:54traffic jams, the match in Denmark started 40 minutes later
00:24:57than planned. At the beginning of the match, there was no shortage of emotions. After the home team's
00:25:01forward James Bogerias' goal, the Sabah team received penalties
00:25:04from the referee. In a six-minute period, the Azerbaijani club was sanctioned with three
00:25:08yellow cards. Valdas Dambrauskas was the first to receive
00:25:11one. I think the referees showed too much respect
00:25:15to the home team. Especially in the first half, and those couple of yellow
00:25:18cards they showed us and they showed me a yellow card, well,
00:25:22probably for the smallest sin I've ever committed in my life,
00:25:26I got a yellow card, you know, there are times when
00:25:29you can't control yourself, or aggressively or something else, now it's really
00:25:33no aggression from my side there was not, just just
00:25:36emotions. In the second half, Orchus' forward Bogeria
00:25:39doubled the lead, after a few minutes Velkas Simičius equalized
00:25:43the score, in added time the referee, after a review due to an attacking
00:25:47player's offside, disallowed Saba's equalizer. "The first match
00:25:51the Azerbaijani champions lost 1-2, so here is that
00:25:54football, you know, that paradox, you can be better, and you get,
00:25:58you know, and Aurelijus Karbalius wrote, you know, where
00:26:02Daniel lives too, that it's really a better team, both in team actions
00:26:05and individually as a team, but well,
00:26:08a loss, of course, two mistakes, but it's hard
00:26:12to even call them mistakes, both goals from outside the penalty area, just
00:26:16fantastic shots, I'm telling you, sometimes there are such days and you want
00:26:20to praise that player, that he's a good job and
00:26:24and you know, it's a shame for us, but what can you do,
00:26:27we need to look now and prepare
00:26:31for Baku, so that we...
00:26:34Dambrauskas's players, having lost to their opponents by a minimal margin, have every chance
00:26:37to qualify for the playoffs. The return match
00:26:41in Azerbaijan, Sabah will play on August 11th.
00:26:44Next,
00:26:46the show Good Day Lithuania and colleague Karolina Panto once again
00:26:50about the most important events of the day in the news at four, stay
00:26:53together.
00:27:02The upcoming night will be partly cloudy, with scattered short rains, in some places
00:27:06in Superkunije it will be 12-17 degrees Celsius, tomorrow during the day
00:27:09partly cloudy, with some short rain, warming up to
00:27:1221-26 degrees.
00:27:29Good afternoon, on your screens is the show Good Day. This time Lithuania
00:27:33is a bit shorter. Before the news on LRT television, you could
00:27:37see a special program. The signatory of the Act of Independence,
00:27:40the first head of the Lithuanian government after the restoration of independence,
00:27:44Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė, was sent off on her last journey.
00:27:47She was buried in Vilnius' Antakalnis cemetery on the Signatories'
00:27:50Hill. About the activities of the first government, led by
00:27:53the politician called the Amber Lady, the complex internal
00:27:57and international political circumstances, visions, goals
00:28:00and reality. I am talking to the author of the book "The First Government, Visions
00:28:04and Opportunities," journalist Ramunė Sakalauskaitė. Good
00:28:07day. Hello. Ms. Sakalauskaite, how would you
00:28:11describe Kazimira Prunskienė's
00:28:15activities as a politician, how did she become
00:28:18the first head of government, what was her assessment
00:28:22at that time? She came to power at a difficult time,
00:28:26first of all
00:28:29she was a scientist, she was elected to the "Congress of People's
00:28:33Deputies" and in July 1989
00:28:37she became the Vice Prime Minister of Lithuania, then
00:28:40actively participated in the Sąjūdis movement and as a representative of Sąjūdis
00:28:44was delegated
00:28:47to become Prime Minister, she was
00:28:50a very flexible person, because for example, there were various
00:28:54candidates, the right-wingers thought that the first
00:28:57prime minister would not last long, that it was a kind of
00:29:01kamikaze. She still belonged to the Communist Party and
00:29:04and wanting to become the head of government, she wrote a statement right there in the Supreme Council
00:29:08hall and resigned from the Lithuanian Communist
00:29:11Party. It was a strong, charming
00:29:14personality,
00:29:18it's worth mentioning the fact that she, for example, that
00:29:21Congress of Deputies prepared
00:29:24the law on independent
00:29:26economic self-sufficiency, and when Gorbachev visited Lithuania
00:29:30in 1990, he criticized, why
00:29:34this legal act was not implemented,
00:29:37and and and all her activities,
00:29:41although they only lasted nine months, are truly incredibly
00:29:44interesting and complex, it is necessary
00:29:47to emphasize that she was one of the first
00:29:50four female prime ministers in the world, besides her there
00:29:53were Brit Thatcher, Gro Harlem
00:29:56Brundtland of Norway, Dominica had one, and the fourth was
00:30:00the Lithuanian Prime Minister. So I
00:30:03had, yes, about
00:30:05the book, I had, the government specifically
00:30:08approved for me
00:30:11the procedure, I could go and read government documents
00:30:14and try to trace the realities
00:30:17of that time, which are truly difficult for people today
00:30:20to comprehend, imagine, Lithuania's budget was
00:30:2317,500
00:30:25dollars, which is like giving someone 10 euros today and saying,
00:30:29go run a shopping center, and she?
00:30:33And from the very beginning I also
00:30:36encountered her governance as a student,
00:30:39when when Lithuania declared
00:30:42independence, ah, when Moscow shut off all
00:30:45the taps, she and Saudargas went to
00:30:48Norway for oil, so the trip was paid for by
00:30:52the then Norwegian Christian Democrats, to whom
00:30:55Saudargas belonged, they went as students because there was no
00:30:58money there.