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00:00:00agitation, the instillation of certain
00:00:03narratives, and fraud,
00:00:06a bot farm makes money directly, from the first two probably
00:00:10it has to get some subsidies from states, so one way or
00:00:13another such bot centers can operate
00:00:16only in such shadow states
00:00:19as Russia, China, North Korea, and of course
00:00:23in those countries where the
00:00:26standard of living is low, there too such centers can exist.
00:00:31It is worth remembering that in 2015, one
00:00:34bot center was blocked in Lithuania, in Latvia
00:00:385,000 a bots were caught
00:00:42in one in one criminal
00:00:45investigation, e, that Yandex data
00:00:49centers were damaged, this does not yet confirm the fact that
00:00:52bot farms are destroyed, it can be
00:00:55assumed that Yandex data centers act as
00:00:59servers, which helped those bot farms mediate, because
00:01:03for a bot farm, the main requirement is that it should have
00:01:07a mobile phone, thousands, hundreds of thousands
00:01:10of mobile phones or their SIM cards, as far as
00:01:13I have had to visit data centers, this of course happened in Lithuania,
00:01:17not Russia, but I have not seen such
00:01:21an infrastructure where
00:01:241000 mobile phones would be connected, but what
00:01:26does it mean if Ukraine hits or not, because it is kind of a fact. we see
00:01:30images hitting a data
00:01:33center, and you say that well, servers there
00:01:37can be damaged and therefore well, disruptions
00:01:40occur in bot farms, how
00:01:43does all this look practically on social networks,
00:01:47because there is really a lot of rejoicing that well, they disappeared
00:01:49overnight and internet users write
00:01:53simply emotions, very stimulating questions
00:01:56and say, look, no one comes running and...
00:02:00doesn't start educating and well, yes, indeed
00:02:03from the internet today we see a decrease
00:02:06in those grandmas with flowers or with kittens, their
00:02:10activity has significantly dropped, especially this is visible in Telegram
00:02:13channels, because it is obvious that Telegram
00:02:16was one of those social spaces where bots
00:02:20even had their own separate networks and only a
00:02:24rare living person could get in there and
00:02:28having entered would not understand what kind of bot he was in, what kind of bubble he
00:02:31found himself in, but I repeat that it is not
00:02:34confirmed and Yandex itself, of course, it does not guarantee
00:02:38and will never officially say that here in one of our data
00:02:41centers there was a bot farm and it is now destroyed, they confirmed
00:02:45and generally only one data center destruction, the other two
00:02:48are confirmed from the Ukrainian side, but if
00:02:52let's say during this day, well, internet users notice, maybe they
00:02:55want to notice, even though you
00:02:58say that in the Telegram channel. indeed there is a noticeable
00:03:02decrease, how long can this last,
00:03:05if we assume that the server is destroyed, I don't want to
00:03:09speculate about terms and time,
00:03:12but I would like this to continue as long as possible, first
00:03:16of all, but it can take up to
00:03:19several months to restore, I would like it to last at least several
00:03:22years, because the data centers themselves still need to be restored, we don't know, because it is not officially
00:03:26declared what they...
00:03:28what infrastructure they provide to bots,
00:03:32but in my understanding, these are mainly servers
00:03:34that split communication, direct messages
00:03:38to one country, to another country, to one social
00:03:41network, to another social network, so it's like a distribution
00:03:45server, a distribution machine, and the data centers themselves, it is likely
00:03:49they are somewhere, where mainly a lot of
00:03:52electricity is needed, a lot of ventilation
00:03:55capabilities, air conditioning must be there,
00:03:59data centers. are that infrastructure,
00:04:01but I have not been there and cannot
00:04:04guarantee that Yandex really had bot farms.
00:04:08You mention several months that may be needed
00:04:11to restore servers, for internet users, again, maybe there's a desire
00:04:15such that, that the
00:04:18restoration of those bot farms can take up to
00:04:21a couple of years, until 2028, because they say, all over the world now
00:04:24chips are needed, generally, how
00:04:28many materials and whether it's easy
00:04:30to get them on the market today to make
00:04:33everything work again? Bot farms are
00:04:36based, as I mentioned, on phones, SIM cards
00:04:39and RAM, RAM is now mostly
00:04:42used for artificial intelligence
00:04:46development, as we know Russia is not
00:04:50the most developed country in this
00:04:53regard, and all resources are usually directed to the
00:04:56state across the Atlantic.
00:05:00"Let's hope that Putin will not have
00:05:03the ability to agree with China or with other chip-producing
00:05:06states'
00:05:10environment, Tusk said yesterday that well, leaders to give him priorities and that."
00:05:12The recovery would really take at least a few years. Thank you, information security
00:05:16expert Vytautas Krekys, thank you for coming to our studio.
00:05:20In Luxembourg, the European Union's foreign ministers
00:05:22are discussing how to increase pressure on Russia,
00:05:26new sanctions are being approved, almost
00:05:2816 individuals and organizations
00:05:32related to Russia's war industry. Lithuanian Foreign Minister
00:05:35Kęstutis Budrys urges to go even further
00:05:38to recognize Russia's military intelligence (GRU) as a terrorist
00:05:42organization. The ministers also discuss Donald
00:05:46Trump's announced energy truce, which Russia is not yet
00:05:49adhering to, the situation in the Middle East and the further
00:05:53enlargement of the European Union. I will talk to my colleague Milda Velikanskyte
00:05:57working in Luxembourg and immediately ask Milda,
00:06:00how do the European Union's foreign ministers react
00:06:03to the United States and Russia's
00:06:06or rather, one should say, Trump's and Putin's
00:06:10agreement on diesel.
00:06:14Hello Rasa, good afternoon LRT television viewers, well, in fact, it can be said that
00:06:18there are no very emotional, loud reactions, they are very
00:06:21restrained and probably that assessment should
00:06:25be looked at from two components, so first
00:06:28of all about the agreement itself, about its content, that
00:06:32Russia will supply diesel, so well, here foreign
00:06:36ministers, if they evaluate it at all, they say
00:06:40that well... they
00:06:43doubt that it will have a direct impact
00:06:46on fuel prices at gas stations, on the fuel
00:06:50market in general, and at the same time, they say that it is probably more
00:06:53directed at the United States' domestic politics, because mid-term
00:06:57elections are approaching, and it is precisely with
00:07:00that in mind that the United States president made that agreement
00:07:03and one should not look for
00:07:07choosing sides in the war
00:07:09in Ukraine and so on, the other component would be precisely
00:07:13that the United States president
00:07:17decided to cooperate with Vladimir Putin and
00:07:20to talk and negotiate, so well, there are no
00:07:24emotional reactions here either, no condemnation, no
00:07:28loud indignation, at least publicly, at least on camera and
00:07:31what foreign ministers talk about is that well, this is not the first
00:07:35time when the United States' and well, specifically
00:07:38President Donald Trump's positions would fluctuate, sometimes
00:07:42he seems to lean more towards Vladimir Putin's
00:07:45side, sometimes the impression is created that
00:07:49he tends to support Volodymyr Zelensky, so they say, well, this is not the first
00:07:53time and most likely not the last time when
00:07:56those fluctuations are visible, and as Kęstutis Budrys, the Lithuanian
00:08:00Foreign Minister says, well, in his opinion, it is
00:08:04not the worst that we have seen over the past two
00:08:07years, but he notes that well, that
00:08:11the absence of coordination between Europe and
00:08:14the United States weakens Western positions, but we can
00:08:18listen to a few
00:08:20comments.
00:08:24The United States is our biggest ally, but our
00:08:27message is clear, if we want to end this war, the only way is
00:08:31to pressure Russia, so we call on the United States to apply
00:08:35sanctions, all those attacks on processing plants would not happen, they
00:08:39would not be needed if the war was over.
00:08:42and such a kind of descent on the diplomatic path
00:08:46between the US, Ukraine and the US's
00:08:49role, such changes, let's say, both
00:08:52being more in the middle, and being more towards Ukraine,
00:08:56speaking of all efforts to find that this
00:08:59last episode is not what we have seen, let's say
00:09:03the worst, in almost two years, well, and
00:09:07we can certainly regret it, because it does not help to achieve
00:09:10a coordinated European United States
00:09:14policy in the field of sanctions against Russia.
00:09:17Let's look at ourselves. The European Union
00:09:20first removed two important oligarchs, some of the biggest supporters of Putin's
00:09:24regime, from the sanctions list. Therefore, before criticizing
00:09:27others, the European Union needs to look in the
00:09:30mirror.
00:09:34Uh, indeed, in the sanctions package that the ministers
00:09:38are approving today, there is by far the largest
00:09:41list of individuals and organizations,
00:09:441600. How effective
00:09:47is it?
00:09:51Yes, that's what everyone emphasizes, that never before
00:09:55have so many been included in the sanctions list at once, and well, despite
00:09:58the fact that in September two
00:10:02oligarchs were removed, which the Lithuanian foreign minister called, well,
00:10:05a deplorable step, but he said that well, on the other hand,
00:10:09the countries that opposed the removal benefited from
00:10:13that, because now this sanctions
00:10:16list is being approved for
00:10:19three years, not for six months and then having to meet again every six months to
00:10:23extend it, but for 36 months. And this is indeed a victory
00:10:27out of those 1600 individuals that the ministers have to
00:10:30approve today, these are, as you Rasa mentioned, predominantly representatives of the
00:10:34Russian military industry, both natural
00:10:37persons and legal persons, drone manufacturers, also
00:10:41those who participated in organizing
00:10:44fictitious elections in the occupied Ukrainian
00:10:47territories, Russian Duma elections in those territories,
00:10:50those individuals will not be allowed to enter the
00:10:54European Union's territory, their
00:10:57assets here will be frozen and it is also desired to restrict or completely
00:11:01disconnect them from the international payment
00:11:04system, but well, some member states say that's
00:11:08not enough, we shouldn't stop here, we need to move forward and well,
00:11:12put as much pressure as possible on Russia, we can
00:11:15listen to the German
00:11:16minister.
00:11:19Every euro, every dollar that goes into Putin's Russia through energy purchases will be used
00:11:23for Russia to use this money to produce new weapons against
00:11:27Ukraine and use them.
00:11:30But this is such a sad
00:11:34paradox, perhaps, how sometimes words differ from
00:11:37actions, because the media just last
00:11:40week reported that in the first nine months of
00:11:44this year, the European Union imported a record amount
00:11:47of liquefied natural gas from Russia's Arctic
00:11:51program, almost more than 12 million
00:11:55tons, and for those 12 million tons, the European Union paid
00:11:59Russia approximately eight billion euros, so well,
00:12:03with one hand we talk about the need to pressure
00:12:06Russia, every euro goes directly
00:12:09to producing weapons against Ukraine, with the other hand
00:12:12we import liquefied natural gas, because here we need to remember
00:12:16that pipeline imports
00:12:19are already banned, and liquefied
00:12:22natural gas imports will be banned
00:12:25from January 1, 2027. So countries
00:12:28are rushing and trying to fill up as much as they can.
00:12:32Rasa. Thank you, colleague Milda Vilikanskietė from Luxembourg,
00:12:35where the European Union's foreign ministers are meeting and approving
00:12:39new sanctions against Russia. Meanwhile, United States President Donald
00:12:43Trump announced that a deal has been reached with Vladimir Putin on
00:12:47diesel supply, and today we asked you how you evaluate it,
00:12:51a QR code on the screen or after the live broadcast.
00:12:55Your opinions, which we will review at the
00:16:16A man around 60 years old has been detained in Poland,
00:16:19suspected of preparing an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Officials learned about the possible
00:16:23attack after receiving a report that the Polish Minister of
00:16:26Defense might be in danger. According to media reports, firearms could have been used in the attacks,
00:16:30but officials have not yet confirmed this. Who and why
00:16:33might have planned the assassination
00:16:37is also still being investigated. Colleague Indrė Urbaitė in the studio, good afternoon,
00:16:40hello, what exactly is known, Indrė? Actually, very
00:16:44little is known, since yesterday there have been practically
00:16:47only isolated news,
00:16:51of course, how everything more or less happened, that at 7 AM Tusk was
00:16:54informed about the possible threat,
00:16:57at 11 AM a special meeting was convened, which
00:17:00was attended by the police, as well as the security service
00:17:03of high-ranking officials and internal intelligence
00:17:06officers, around five, and here we are talking about Polish time,
00:17:10the person you mentioned earlier, a man between 60
00:17:14and 70, was detained, it is stated that he is a Polish citizen,
00:17:17officials say that he was found by analyzing social
00:17:21networks and the wider internet, very
00:17:24radical statements were discovered, it is claimed,
00:17:27that he belonged to certain radical
00:17:31groups on social networks, and that's how he was
00:17:34found, searches were carried out at his home and also. it is said that
00:17:38other individuals actively involved in those groups are also being checked,
00:17:41so well, essentially that's how much specific news there is,
00:17:45yes, various options are being investigated,
00:17:49local journalists, which is such an interesting detail, we see how
00:17:52quickly everything happened from the first report and informing the prime minister
00:17:56to the arrest, but local journalists noted that very
00:17:59serious language was used by both the police
00:18:03and other services, as well as by the prime minister himself, that it was even
00:18:06said... that it was a serious threat, that well,
00:18:10it was believed that the threat was real, so it creates
00:18:13such an image, at least for us who don't know more
00:18:16details, that it was really assessed that the threat was
00:18:20high-level. True, the prime minister did not attend
00:18:23Sunday's meeting, another one, he had stayed and was
00:18:26in Warsaw, so it was not noticed that well, there would be more security, for example, staff
00:18:30around him, it was the same security as
00:18:34always, so well, it didn't seem to affect the agenda. "Nevertheless,
00:18:37the meeting took place and the meeting also discussed
00:18:41radicalization and violence that Poland experienced
00:18:44last week in schools, but this threat
00:18:47seems to have been taken seriously, of course,
00:18:50the question, probably knowing Poland, knowing its support
00:18:53for Ukraine, is it suspected that it is somehow connected to Russia or even
00:18:57Belarus, so officials are very careful in choosing their
00:19:00words, they say that well, they do not rule out,
00:19:03they are carefully investigating, but so far there are no signs that it could be..."
00:19:07somehow connected with foreign forces, but
00:19:10again, what commentators notice is that even if it's not connected with Russia,
00:19:14Belarus or even the conflict that
00:19:17is happening, the war that is happening outside the border, that it can have a certain
00:19:21influence on people who may be
00:19:23tired of those threats related to the war
00:19:27and rising various hybrid
00:19:29threats, so that it can affect their perception
00:19:33and support for Ukraine, for example,
00:19:36you mentioned that... "officials are carefully choosing their words when talking
00:19:40about this incident that is still being investigated, but
00:19:44still, probably the main versions
00:19:47in the same media or at least news about those
00:19:51radical groups are what
00:19:54specifically they could have
00:19:57been unhappy about, in other words, is it more related
00:20:01to domestic or to foreign policy,
00:20:04in the media, as far as I've read Polish media. "It's assessed very cautiously,
00:20:08because again, the environment, considering
00:20:12that for not the first month there's been talk about hybrid threats,
00:20:15school incidents where there were stabbing attempts,
00:20:19minors involved in such violent activity, I don't know
00:20:22what to call it, it's assessed very cautiously,
00:20:25Tusk himself, and it should be said that today an operation
00:20:28was launched in schools, about 2000
00:20:31police officers were sent, and yes, more
00:20:34police on the streets after those stabbings. Over
00:20:37100 people have been detained
00:20:40and about 80,000
00:20:44schools have been checked, so in this whole
00:20:47there is a noticeable increase in rhetoric
00:20:50directed against politicians, calls,
00:20:53calls to violence, and by the way,
00:20:57in August a 23-year-old person was detained
00:21:00who called for attacks on high-ranking Polish politicians, so in this whole
00:21:04space he talks about
00:21:07radicalization specifically on the internet, that
00:21:10the idealization of violence is spreading, that people are being urged to commit it,
00:21:14such a strong personality
00:21:17cult and all this is, well... Tusk connected not necessarily
00:21:21the possible assassination attempt on him, but the whole environment
00:21:25we are seeing in Poland now, he connected it with various
00:21:29calls spreading on the internet and for example, one
00:21:32boy, his age was not specified, but he seemed to be a minor,
00:21:35was among those 135 who was detained because it was discovered that he
00:21:39had created a model of his school in the popular online game
00:21:43Roblox and initiated an attack on his classmates or other
00:21:46school students, so he was also detained
00:21:50and questioned, whether any charges were filed
00:21:54is unclear, but well, through all this, now in Poland,
00:21:58other various threats are being looked at,
00:22:01especially towards politicians, but also the whole environment in schools
00:22:05essentially. Thank you, colleague Indrė Urbaitė, thank you for coming to the
00:22:08studio. And Vilnius in
00:22:112009 and Kaunas
00:22:14in 2022 have been European
00:22:17Capitals of Culture. This year, the title of European Capital of Culture
00:22:21will be shared by Liepāja, located on the Latvian coast,
00:22:25along with the Portuguese city of Evora. Liepāja presented
00:22:28the theme and program of its Capital of Culture
00:22:31last weekend. Jovita Gaižauskaitė and Paulius Juocnukis
00:22:35report from Liepāja. Liepāja will become
00:22:38the European Capital of Culture next year, the third largest city in Latvia,
00:22:42with about 67,000 inhabitants, a port city and
00:22:46resort will dictate next year's cultural trends.
00:22:50The theme is unrest. We talk to the city's mayor
00:22:53about how Liepāja is preparing for this
00:22:55title.
00:22:58For many years now, a very large team has been working on the Capital of Culture
00:23:02events. Next year we expect even more Lithuanians in Liepāja. Lithuanians
00:23:05really like Liepāja's beach, but by creating a special program
00:23:09for next year, we want to invite more people from Kaunas, Vilnius, people
00:23:12from Tauragė, Klaipėda, Palanga, and all over Lithuania to visit
00:23:16Liepāja, because there will be plenty of events all year round.
00:23:23"Everyone in Latvia, Lithuania or any other country wants to be
00:23:27a champion, next year we will be European cultural
00:23:30champions, it's a huge honor, but also a great responsibility, not only for
00:23:33Latvia, but also for all Baltic countries in Europe, it's
00:23:37an achievement, the city's recognition
00:23:38will grow."
00:23:44Liepāja thrives on traditional economic activities and tourism, so
00:23:48it's natural that we want to attract more guests, which means more
00:23:51investment in tourism, in the city, and without tourists the city
00:23:55would develop, but not so quickly, we need
00:23:58you.
00:24:06Liepāja is called Latvia's rock capital, the city is full
00:24:09of musical accents, notes imprinted in the old town, leading through
00:24:13the most beautiful city sights and here the great Amber, a concert
00:24:16hall with the European Capital of Culture general director.
00:24:20we talk about the event theme and
00:24:22program,
00:24:25the theme is unrest, tranquility, the word "un" in parentheses
00:24:29creates balance, that's how the city develops, culture grows,
00:24:32all sorts of
00:24:34things are created.
00:24:37When we started discussing the theme, we, living between sea and
00:24:40land, experiencing paradoxes and very much feeling
00:24:44that state of unrest, back then we couldn't
00:24:47explain it, but that's what it became for us.
00:24:59We all found ourselves in chaos, felt uneasy, lost,
00:25:01scared,
00:25:03but at the same time we had to think logically, strategically, find
00:25:07balance. A team of 35 people has been creating this program
00:25:11for four years, but we have many partners and joint
00:25:14projects.
00:25:20In 1899, Liepāja became the first
00:25:23city in the Baltic states to launch an electric tram, which
00:25:27successfully runs to this day. The city is
00:25:30also full of interesting architecture, from ornate Art Nouveau style buildings,
00:25:34tsarist red brick barracks to melancholic wooden
00:25:38structures. With the European Capital of Culture We are talking with the head of the capital's art
00:25:42department about whether there will be joint projects with Lithuanian
00:25:44artists.
00:25:50unified, different genres, different performances for all
00:25:53audiences, more than 500 events are expected, if we
00:25:57count how many days a year has, more than one event
00:26:00daily.
00:26:15Liepaja has long-standing music traditions, currently we are
00:26:18in the Great Amber, the concert hall, in the heart of Liepaja,
00:26:22we have the longest playing orchestra of all Baltic countries, we have
00:26:25the oldest theater in Latvia, so for centuries we have been creating cultural events
00:26:29and we want to share that, we say that...
00:26:32Music flows in our veins, we organize the choir festival
00:26:35Europa Cantat, but we want to show both traditional culture and
00:26:39contemporary art.
00:26:50Our main exhibitions will be curated by the Lithuanian Raimundas
00:26:53Malašauskas, the largest hypnic jerk,
00:26:56the horizon of anxiety in the Liepaja History Museum. We also
00:27:00invited talented Lithuanian creators. tourists
00:27:15in Liepaja are Lithuanians, last year 18,000
00:27:18Lithuanian overnight stays were recorded in Liepaja, perhaps next year this number will be even higher
00:27:22when Liepaja begins its European Capital of Culture
00:27:24year.
00:30:20forces in Europe for the first time publicly announced
00:30:23what kind of retaliation he would give if Russia attacked, and stated that if necessary
00:30:27he would fight in enemy territory and defeat the enemy forces' leadership.
00:30:30General Alexus. also commanding all American forces
00:30:34in Europe, at the Warsaw Security Forum announced that the alliance would never
00:30:38escalate the situation itself, but would be able to match every enemy
00:30:42step, escalating it, he denied the constantly repeated
00:30:45thesis that the West sought a strategic defeat of Russia, saying that
00:30:49he has neither plans, nor intentions, nor ambitions to do anything more than
00:30:52defend allies, but promised to respond to any attack,
00:30:56also to make it meaningless and not allow the enemy even