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00:00:02Maus, so this is not Canada would be an associated member
00:00:06of the European Union, and the European Union has long been a subsidiary of Canada
00:00:09between Africa and the United Kingdom.
00:00:13Well, you know, in my days, geography
00:00:16was a lot simpler. Don't start your stories about how things were in your
00:00:20days, we'll have to listen again to how it was, what kind of funeral, how they
00:00:23carried coffins. You know, I still
00:00:27self-educate. When I'm in the toilet, I Google
00:00:31the whole world.
00:00:32I'm surprised.
00:00:37I'm
00:00:37amazed.
00:00:42Thank you for watching Dviračio Savaitė. Just
00:00:45for the end of the show, we were asked to announce
00:00:47a colon. If you know basketball
00:00:50well, understand plays, and know how
00:00:54to utilize the strengths of individual basketball players. Maybe
00:00:57you can tell Dainius Adomaitis that
00:01:00the Lithuanian men's national team is looking for a new head coach,
00:01:04period. So that's all for this time,
00:01:07see you next Sunday and bye, be well.
00:01:42Thank you. Before we start discussing the next
00:01:46item on the agenda, I would like to point out that perhaps someone
00:01:50lost car
00:01:52keys, asked Deputy Speaker of the Seimas
00:01:56Leiputė, and I would like to ask her, what answer, madam,
00:02:00were you expecting? No, you know, I didn't lose them, I keep them there.
00:02:03Return them to the first row, please, in that aisle there between
00:02:06Brazilienė and Vaitekūnienė, this is a member of the Seimas,
00:02:09if you haven't met them yet. So,
00:02:13good evening. Another interesting week, the week when
00:02:16the prosecutor general suspected of corruption fled Ukraine,
00:02:19but still, that same week it became clear that
00:02:23despite all the explanations of Žemaitaičiai about
00:02:26Ukrainian corruption, Putin's oligarchs are buying not the Ukrainian
00:02:30president, but the United States'. This is about the fact that
00:02:33Trump's eldest son's wife confirmed that the island for their
00:02:36wedding in spring was rented and fireworks
00:02:39were bought by a certain Umar Kremlyov. His real
00:02:42surname is Lutfoloyev. Here, when he was still convicted
00:02:45of racketeering, he later changed it to a more beautiful one for him. Now
00:02:49Kremlyov is the president of the International Boxing Federation and
00:02:52buys gifts for the family of the United States president.
00:02:56At the banquet, which was organized in the Bahamas and where
00:02:59Donald Trump himself did not participate, but he was
00:03:03successfully represented there by the family's negotiator, who
00:03:06imitates the work of a diplomat in Ukraine and Iran,
00:03:10Trump's son-in-law Kushner. And maybe something
00:03:13was gifted, because the Russian headwear for the newlyweds is only put on here
00:03:17in the photo, at least in public with such decorations
00:03:21they have not yet been spotted.
00:03:23Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned his parliament
00:03:27that Russia is planning missile and drone attacks against
00:03:30states that support Ukraine. The Lithuanian Minister
00:03:34of National Defence, reassuring his parliament, demonstrated
00:03:38that he counts at least up to two. Well, that
00:03:41autumn, when the threat to Lithuania is probably the greatest since the
00:03:44summer of '40s. Here, there was a discussion
00:03:47about a European army, well, there was such a discussion,
00:03:50but then the question is, well, such a practical one, so now a NATO soldier, that is
00:03:54like a NATO soldier and a European soldier, so do we interpret this
00:03:57as having two soldiers in one person?
00:04:00We probably don't become safer from that, because a person is only one. It's good that
00:04:04Minister Kaunas did not mention or did not remember that a soldier
00:04:07of the Lithuanian army in such a case would be a soldier
00:04:11three times over, because he is both a soldier of the Lithuanian army
00:04:14and a NATO soldier. The Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces,
00:04:17such duties are held by the President of the State, this
00:04:21week recounted that Belarus is not
00:04:23independent, at least in controlling its airspace.
00:04:26And if it depended on Belarus itself... then it might even shoot down those drones,
00:04:30which, across all of Belarus, quotes Gitanas Nausėda, fly into
00:04:34Lithuania. We have a very clear view on what
00:04:37is happening in Belarus, we certainly haven't put on
00:04:41any rose-tinted glasses wanting to see
00:04:45Lukashenka as beautiful, we see him as he
00:04:48is.
00:04:50You perfectly understand that, well, Uh, speaking of what is happening in Belarusian
00:04:53airspace, well, it seems that here we sometimes
00:04:56think a little that... Russia
00:05:00controls its airspace, we have
00:05:03a lot of information about Belarus
00:05:06itself trying to fight those drones that enter its
00:05:10territory. Uh... In one case
00:05:13they manage to do it, in another case they don't, those drones
00:05:16continue to move into Lithuanian territory, because many
00:05:20of them come, practically across the entire territory
00:05:23of Belarus, having flown over.
00:05:26Gitanas Nausėda did not expand on this topic in the daily
00:05:29theme, and therefore I cannot now expand on those Belarusian
00:05:32balloons that would stop the work of Vilnius airport in the summer.
00:05:36But from what was said here, by the president's
00:05:39mouth, Belarus would like to shoot down Russian drones, but
00:05:43cannot, would very much like to, but very much cannot. And here, in another
00:05:47sentence after he himself announced that he doesn't look
00:05:50at Lukashenka through rose-tinted glasses.
00:05:54Former LRT Council member Artūras Račas this week
00:05:57shared on Facebook his latest achievements, having reached
00:06:00the second stage of the LRT Ethics Controller competition.
00:06:03Besides the achievements of Račas already listed, there are
00:06:06others. He was Skardžius' assistant in the Seimas, and
00:06:10he has illustrated the State Security Department's report on threats
00:06:14in Lithuania. He led the Kremlin A3 format
00:06:17conversations described in that report. The speaker of that
00:06:21format was Algirdas Paleckis, but that was back when he was
00:06:24not yet convicted, or, as the honorary chairman of the Social Democrats,
00:06:28Andriukaitis, says, when he was not yet a political prisoner,
00:06:32he freely and unpunished spoke that on January 13th, our own
00:06:35shot our own. The LRT commission
00:06:38that selected Račas as a candidate for LRT Ethics Controller
00:06:41is led by its council member Laura
00:06:44Matiošaitytė, the same person who is also a member of the Central
00:06:48Electoral Commission and who told no one that she had
00:06:51quietly consulted Žemaitaitis' party and
00:06:55asked that the party also hide
00:06:58these consultations, only that Vice Žemaitaitis Puchovičius
00:07:01did not know how or did not want to remove the marks from the electronic document
00:07:05showing that Nemunas Aušra's explanation
00:07:09to the Central Electoral Commission was written on Matjošaitytė's computer.
00:07:13Patijošaitytė sees no problems here, and the Speaker of the Seimas
00:07:16Olekas reacted to the relationship of the member with Nemunas
00:07:19Aušra by saying that she herself might
00:07:22have to write some kind of resignation
00:07:24statement.
00:07:29"I messed up and cleaned up,
00:07:32norim, mes gyvent ramiai, nes
00:07:36šalis
00:07:42čia. Dirbtinis intelektas taip mato dalykus, kai vyriausiojoje rinkimų
00:07:45Central Electoral Commission works secretly, consulting one party, one specific
00:07:49party, and now voting on its violations.
00:07:53So far, such video clips are not prohibited. Social Democrat
00:07:56Visaitė proposes to prohibit only such artificial intelligence
00:08:00creations where the content is sexual. Human
00:08:03dignity, honor,
00:08:07reputation, the right to private life, and the right
00:08:10to one's own image,
00:08:13as well as sexual
00:08:16self-determination freedom. Plus, regarding
00:08:19Matišaitytė, I also heard that she said she wants a request, I want to ask
00:08:22one thing, being a lawyer, a person who has not yet held
00:08:26office, if he provides consultations to anyone, is that
00:08:28a violation?
00:08:32Many lawyers provide free consultations to people with disabilities
00:08:35and so on, and these are free consultations, this is
00:08:38a violation. In Puchovičius' correspondence
00:08:41from Nemunas Aušra, Matjošaitytė is not writing a resignation
00:08:45statement from anywhere. The Seimas majority is concerned that she should have more
00:08:48time. The necessary number of signatures has been collected
00:08:52to summon Laura Matijošaitytė to the
00:08:55Seimas, but she is not being summoned, it is being postponed even
00:08:58for next week. On the 22nd, she is not
00:09:01being summoned. Can you answer if this is not related
00:09:04to the LRT Council meeting planned for the
00:09:0822nd, in which she should
00:09:11also participate? Because of this, there is no opportunity
00:09:15here in the Seimas to hear Matijošaitytė's answers
00:09:19to the questions of the members of the Seimas. Yes, colleague, your precise
00:09:22signatures are collected, but we
00:09:25have a case that is currently being considered
00:09:29in the Constitutional Court because
00:09:31a person who was being recalled was not given
00:09:34enough time to prepare
00:09:38to answer the question, so
00:09:41an invitation to Ms. Laura
00:09:44Matijušaitė will be sent today
00:09:47and I believe that after giving her seven
00:09:51working days, she will be invited to our plenary
00:09:55session. Kęstutis Vilkauskas, who failed
00:09:59in the previous Seimas session with the mission to make the LRT
00:10:02law as it should be, according to Olekas' blueprint, will no
00:10:06longer be the chairman of the Culture Committee in this session.
00:10:09A small introductory word before the procedures.
00:10:12Today I am handing over the duties
00:10:15of the committee chairman to Vaida Aleknavičienė.
00:10:17I am not resigning, I am handing over, because I really
00:10:20did not see any arguments stated that I should resign. I
00:10:24but. I mentioned earlier, the new
00:10:27chairwoman of the Culture Committee will now be Vaida Aleknavičienė, whom
00:10:30the Social Democrats removed twice from the post of Minister
00:10:34of Culture. My address has been subjected to various
00:10:37statements when I was a
00:10:40Minister of Culture, whether I participated
00:10:43or not, I also think this is such
00:10:47a, perhaps an
00:10:50exaggerated presentation
00:10:54of information about me, that I
00:10:58did not participate in the committee's activities. So, for your information,
00:11:02I really did participate in the committee's activities. At the same time, I was
00:11:05also a member of another committee, so it is clear that
00:11:08the situation is more complex.
00:11:12Let's see who called about the minister's non-participation
00:11:15in the Seimas Culture Committee's activities? I would like to
00:11:18inform you that my schedule is planned in
00:11:21advance, and when you talk about your work
00:11:25in the committee, I would like to emphasize that
00:11:28I genuinely regret my personal working
00:11:32time, which I should dedicate to listening to your
00:11:35strange proposals and hindrances
00:11:38to the committee's work. So, at that time, I
00:11:41really focus on other activities where I can help
00:11:45and solve problems. That
00:11:47waste of time was when the Seimas, in an urgent procedure, tried
00:11:51to deal with LRT. Then,
00:11:53when it was an urgent procedure. It was also as good as the black-smoking
00:11:57bulldozer of the Azdem and Žemaitaitis coalition. Now urgency
00:12:01is no longer appropriate, because why is it needed if
00:12:04the laws are not about LRT.
00:12:06I would suggest to the initiators to remove that
00:12:10gas before adoption, so that the storm comes.
00:12:14The urgent gas, I mean, that the storm will come tomorrow, so it's unlikely,
00:12:17to improve this project
00:12:21taking into account the conclusions of the Legal Department, which we
00:12:24somewhere. we did not consider today, honorable chairman,
00:12:28standing at the tribune, the speaker. I thought that
00:12:31you are an experienced member of the Seimas and you know that we consider
00:12:35proposals not at the consideration stage, but at the adoption
00:12:38stage, so that will be done. Due to
00:12:41certain misleading information, certain members of the Seimas or perhaps presented
00:12:44out of ignorance. On Monday, the Energy
00:12:47and Sustainable Development Committee considered all the conclusions
00:12:50of the Legal Department, perhaps some committee members
00:12:54did not participate in the meeting remotely, and the final
00:12:58presentation of conclusions takes place during adoption, so a reminder to some of those who have
00:13:01stayed too long, please read the Legal Department's
00:13:05conclusion, request the government's conclusion for this
00:13:08project and the STT's conclusion. Was it
00:13:11requested? No, why wasn't it
00:13:14requested? On what grounds wasn't it requested? Look at
00:13:18the committee's conclusion, the bulldozer is not suitable here,
00:13:22I wouldn't speak from a side microphone, but when false
00:13:25information is spread, the STT was contacted and we received a prompt response
00:13:28that they do not object and foresee no violations.
00:13:32Colleagues, you know, it is very strange to hear the boos of
00:13:36some people in this hall who
00:13:39sat in power for two years, were in the ruling
00:13:42majority, did nothing to make
00:13:45anything better, and now suddenly
00:13:48their position has changed, crying as if there's nothing
00:13:51left, so I would really like to vote against
00:13:55the dullness that is heard in this hall, but
00:13:58I will approve the law itself.
00:14:01Prime Minister Sinkevičius this week clarified: the statements
00:14:04about caring for children made by Ruginienė, who warmed his place
00:14:08in the government, now returned to the Ministry of Social
00:14:11Security and Labour. Today
00:14:14Inga Ruginienė, speaking about the family package,
00:14:18said that she would finance it from the budget and from Sodra.
00:14:22So maybe you will specify.
00:14:25Do you have some kind of 800 million
00:14:29chest in the budget that no one knows about, because we hear
00:14:33nothing about sources, only such a generic statement.
00:14:36And this is already more of your
00:14:39reflection on how to deal with funding from Sodra. After all,
00:14:43Sodra can only finance a very
00:14:45specific range of
00:14:49measures and certainly not any, not just any
00:14:52plan of the ruling party. Well... I have neither a chest, nor
00:14:56a broom, nor a drawer. Uh,
00:14:59the budget situation is indeed
00:15:02tense,
00:15:04and it will certainly be difficult, it seems,
00:15:07but, well, it is a political ambition that we are pursuing
00:15:11and we will realize it.
00:15:15those announced less than 800 million, that is not
00:15:18such an immediate need in 2027 that
00:15:22suddenly 800 million is needed. Especially since some
00:15:25of the measures, and probably already discussed,
00:15:29are programmed for after this term, for another term, for another
00:15:32period, regarding the feeding of fifth
00:15:36to tenth grade students. And this is a big, big investment,
00:15:40if, well, it is approved to do it.
00:15:42Officially, money spent on food, according to today's
00:15:45Lithuanian social democrats, is an investment, if you promise that
00:15:49they will be taken from some broom and
00:15:52distributed for consumption by the next term's
00:15:54government.
00:16:01Today's guest on the show is Jonas Miklovas, founder,
00:16:05leader, and soul of Basket News, probably that's right. To say or not, very
00:16:08grandiosely, hello, that's how it is, Jonas received additional
00:16:12attention after that show, in which he was supposed to participate
00:16:16together with Mindaugas Balčiūnas, the head
00:16:19of the Lithuanian Basketball Association, then still the
00:16:21head, but Mindaugas Balčiūnas did not want
00:16:25to participate in the same show as you. What
00:16:27would you have asked, how could
00:16:31it have seemed to Balčiūnas? A very
00:16:33good question, I myself also tried
00:16:37to understand what Mindaugas Balčiūnas could have
00:16:40been afraid of, because we probably don't need to pretend that
00:16:44there could have been some other things why he refused to be with me
00:16:48in the studio, I wouldn't bite his hand, nor
00:16:51would I start any fights, he probably had to be afraid
00:16:55of certain possible questions that would allegedly
00:16:58be uncomfortable or for which he would not have been
00:17:01prepared. To be honest, knowing his
00:17:05communication skills, I had no doubt that no
00:17:08questions he might receive would scare him,
00:17:12and although in the environment, even in the studio, some
00:17:16colleagues and guests doubted until the last minute whether Mindaugas
00:17:19Balčiūnas would come to the show, I was convinced that he would participate,
00:17:23because, I repeat, I really didn't think that I would
00:17:27pose a problem for his ability to speak
00:17:30and answer, but it turns out I do,
00:17:34it turns out, it turns out that I do, but,
00:17:37"considering everything, considering all the fuss that
00:17:41arose after the show, after Mindaugas' refusal to participate
00:17:44with me, I am convinced that whatever I would have asked,
00:17:48however I might have reacted in a few places
00:17:51to his, let's say, not one lie, about which even
00:17:55other participants in the show openly said at the table, 'Mindaugas,
00:17:59you're lying here, and you're lying here,' I could have added in a few more
00:18:02places, but that would not have changed the essence as strongly as
00:18:06Mindaugas' own decision." "to step into the
00:18:10studio while I am in it. What does this show
00:18:13about the attitude of such leaders
00:18:16towards critical voices, because you probably
00:18:19don't really have any personal issues with each other, the topic
00:18:23is about basketball, about the situation of Lithuanian basketball,
00:18:27and what it depends on. Is this
00:18:30normal behavior for a leader of any level? Well,
00:18:33we have known each other for probably 15, even
00:18:36more years. 17, 18, even before
00:18:39five years ago, we were drinking wine in the basketball house before Christmas, when
00:18:43I came to congratulate him, as the newly elected general
00:18:46secretary, even then I myself believed that he
00:18:49truly was a person who would work for the good
00:18:52of basketball, but that was probably one of the last, if not
00:18:56the last, warm meeting we had, because simply seeing
00:18:59what - because he had wine, because he had wine, yes, and seeing
00:19:03what was happening, what was going on, what information was coming in.
00:19:07Well, it was difficult
00:19:10to continue to accept this person as I had information
00:19:14about him until then. Well, it's obvious that probably that kind of break
00:19:18in relations happened before the 2024 elections, where
00:19:21Šarūnas Černiauskas and I with Siena did
00:19:24an investigation, very quickly, I must say, we
00:19:28it was a matter of two months and in two months we did
00:19:32three separate texts, of course there was the big main one related to
00:19:35Orlen's money and. probably anyone who has done investigations understands that
00:19:39investigations don't happen that quickly, so you need to imagine how much
00:19:42work was put in during that short time to still manage
00:19:46to show the basketball community what kind of person we are talking about and what kind
00:19:50of person is now running not for general secretary, but
00:19:54for president. And someone, or Mindaugas Balčiūnas himself,
00:19:57undoubtedly considered this as certain election
00:20:00campaigning from the opposition's side. When we
00:20:03started doing that investigation, at that time it was not even clear whether anyone
00:20:07at all would go as opposition, Mindaugas Balčiūnas would have been practically
00:20:11the only candidate in those elections. So our
00:20:15goal was not to help the opposition, our goal was
00:20:18to show what the history of this
00:20:21person is, how he collects those very votes
00:20:24in the association, how various
00:20:28new organizations emerge that get voting rights,
00:20:31what was the story with Orlen and how politicians got involved
00:20:35in that story as well. And I think we succeeded
00:20:39and since then
00:20:41our relationship is no more, it simply became
00:20:45zero or negative and probably since then Mindaugas
00:20:48feels such injustice or hurt
00:20:52somehow. That show coincided roughly
00:20:56with the international investigation into the inappropriate
00:20:59conduct of basketball coach Grigas, about which
00:21:02Balčiūnas said that the conduct and everything is fine here and there's nothing to do
00:21:06and nothing to apologize for. In your opinion,
00:21:10what could have been more important?
00:21:13All that opinion that arose after he
00:21:16refused to participate in the show with you, or perhaps this issue
00:21:20I have no doubt, because this is a topic that goes beyond basketball.
00:21:23For example, we can criticize
00:21:27why a new national team coach is not being found, and this is
00:21:30the responsibility of the association's head, but this may not reach
00:21:34everyone's ears. We can say that perhaps
00:21:37basketball players also refuse to come to the national team because there
00:21:40are, let's say, unprofessional conditions, not as
00:21:44they are used to working in clubs, but this will again not reach the public's
00:21:47ears. When a very clear message
00:21:51comes from FIBA that the coach, for whom
00:21:54Mindaugas Balčiūnas stood up, who repeated in more than one show
00:21:58that there are no signs of sexual harassment,
00:22:01that an exemplary investigation has been carried out by the association,
00:22:05that this is even an example for FIBA on how to conduct investigations
00:22:08in three days, and many such conversations, much such communication,
00:22:12and when eventually a decision comes from FIBA
00:22:16that this person gets a five-year disqualification, of course it is not
00:22:20specified why the association certainly knows the reasons, but publicly
00:22:23it was not stated, but such things don't happen. A five-year
00:22:26disqualification is not received for,
00:22:30as Mindaugas tried to communicate before,
00:22:33that perhaps someone's understanding
00:22:36is overly sensitive, someone needs to drink tea.
00:22:39For such things, a five-year
00:22:42disqualification does not come, so it certainly contributed to a very
00:22:45changed perspective and background. To everything Mindaugas
00:22:49said, and the situation with Rimantas Grigas did not help
00:22:53him, and that show probably became the
00:22:55last straw, I imagine. I myself
00:22:59did not imagine and did not expect that such a reaction could
00:23:02happen, but when a multitude
00:23:06of non-sports people get involved, Rimvydas
00:23:09Valatka, even though he criticized LRT, I disagreed with his
00:23:12criticism, but of course we all have the right to have different opinions, but he
00:23:16criticized Mantas Tonkus in an LRT show.
00:23:20he laughed or also at that situation, so it turned out to be such
00:23:24an incredible moment, I really didn't imagine that such
00:23:27reactions could happen, and when so many different people, not from basketball, talk
00:23:30about it, I think it must have been the last straw. How do you
00:23:34predict the situation now, because, well, new leader
00:23:38elections are coming in the association, on which, probably, the future of the national
00:23:42team and Lithuanian basketball in general depends. Do you have information
00:23:46about who could be a very strong candidate in the new elections?
00:23:50"Candidates, it turns out, now several are being mentioned. Of course,
00:23:54the name of Remigijus Milašius, the head of LKL, was heard loudly
00:23:57here, who is seemingly seen as a possible
00:24:01future president, but at the
00:24:05same time it is also heard that behind the scenes Mindaugas Balčiūnas,
00:24:08having resigned from these positions, is actively
00:24:11working by calls talking about another candidate
00:24:15who might appear, Darius
00:24:17Gudelis, and there is time until Friday, and we
00:24:21are now again in such a situation where the basketball
00:24:24federation association, excuse me, it's still hard
00:24:27to readjust to this, not just for you, these elections again
00:24:30become such a national interest, so it becomes almost
00:24:34as intriguing as, I don't know, municipal elections, I wouldn't compare it perhaps to Seimas
00:24:38elections or presidential, but it again becomes such an intrigue, well, who will now
00:24:42continue to govern our basketball? So what surprised
00:24:44me was that the executive committee of the association left
00:24:47a very short time frame for"
00:24:51the week must practically submit candidacies
00:24:55and then there are three weeks left until
00:24:58the elections themselves, so there isn't much preparation and
00:25:01it would obviously be very difficult for an outsider to compete
00:25:05under such conditions, so we'll see what happens, but these
00:25:08two names are now seen as the essential
00:25:12candidate names, if it were up to you,
00:25:15what qualities would a candidate definitely need
00:25:19for this post?
00:25:22That's a good question. I would say
00:25:24it's the opposite
00:25:26for Mindaugas Balčiūnas, that even so, even
00:25:30though Mindaugas Balčiūnas is still referred to by some people as
00:25:33the best sports manager in Lithuania, even
00:25:36now, yesterday, when communicating from the association's side
00:25:40about the upcoming European Women's Championship in Lithuania,
00:25:43it's clear that it's not at all prepared for. There are eight or nine
00:25:46months left, there are no finances, the money hasn't
00:25:50been collected, so how can that best manager not be able
00:25:53to take care of such a huge international event, for which
00:25:56Lithuania got the right to organize? So
00:25:59we need someone who loves basketball, first of all, someone who
00:26:03would want to work hard for basketball and strive for that
00:26:06basketball to rise, not to think about
00:26:09himself, about his closest friends, about
00:26:13the management form itself. But if we talked about Mindaugas
00:26:16being afraid of possible questions, it might be because
00:26:20his management style is such that he's surrounded by
00:26:24people who are very comfortable. There are many people in the association
00:26:28who now don't ask questions, don't discuss with
00:26:31the leader, don't suggest... ideas, but are their executors, are
00:26:34executors of tasks that are handed down from above. So I
00:26:38don't believe in such a management style. As a leader myself, I strongly
00:26:41encourage someone to
00:26:44challenge me. That's a Lithuanian word, but I can't think of it quickly
00:26:48now. Because I believe in such a management style,
00:26:51and it seems that the association's leader should have something similar. He should really
00:26:55listen to various sides, not be an expert
00:26:59on everything himself. Thank you very much, Jonas.
00:27:02Thank you for watching. This show will be, like all LRT
00:27:06Mediateka shows, next show next Sunday at 7 PM as well. If
00:27:10nothing unexpected happens, goodbye.
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00:28:07port's gate. The ropes that
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