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00:01:37The coming night will be partly cloudy, with occasional rain in some places, mainly
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00:02:05assess it at all, say that
00:02:09The United States administration warns Ukraine and its European
00:02:13allies that Washington may stop sharing intelligence
00:02:16data and no longer allow European countries to buy American
00:02:20weapons for Ukraine if Kyiv continues to attack Russian
00:02:24environment, Tusk said yesterday that energy facilities. These threats came after
00:02:27Donald Trump announced about allegedly concluded
00:02:30energy ceasefires, about which the news, at least to Ukrainians, was
00:02:33unexpected. In recent days, Trump
00:02:37has surprised the world with more than one statement, from the decision
00:02:40to conclude a diesel supply deal with the Kremlin to
00:02:43the demand to change the Ukrainian president. So today
00:02:47we ask you, how do you evaluate Trump's agreement with
00:02:50Putin on diesel? Logical, after
00:02:53all, America is first of all, is it a deal with
00:02:56the devil or who knows where it will lead? All three
00:03:00answer options are on the screen, you can scan the QR
00:03:03code or vote below the live broadcast window,
00:03:07we will review the results at the end of the show, now I am talking to
00:03:10Vytautas Magnus University Professor Gintautas Mažeikis, good
00:03:13afternoon, good afternoon, Mr.
00:03:15Mažeikis, in what world have we found ourselves
00:03:19when the United States imposes sanctions on Russia so that it
00:03:23would not have money for war, and after a few weeks its president himself
00:03:26agrees with Putin on Russian diesel?
00:03:30"We have found ourselves in a world of corrupt
00:03:33far-right. Corrupt far-right wants
00:03:37to make all sorts of deals and ignores
00:03:40democracy, democratic laws, those very laws
00:03:44that have already been adopted in the United States, approved by the Senate and
00:03:47Congress or signed earlier by previous
00:03:50presidents. In other words, for Donald Trump
00:03:54and his entourage, money is much more important
00:03:57than human life." personal profit, not
00:04:00democracy, glory, not
00:04:04justice, and here in this place, it is therefore quite
00:04:08understandable that he always wanted and intended and
00:04:12never hid his desire to be friends, communicate with Putin and in every way
00:04:16to appease him, but equally he would also like
00:04:19to communicate with Chinese leader
00:04:22Xi Jinping or praises and worships
00:04:25North Korea's Kim Jong-un, that is his
00:04:28choice. And he also wants to divide the European
00:04:32Union in every way, by financing, supporting, openly
00:04:35advocating for the far-right or
00:04:38the populist right side, accordingly
00:04:41ignoring and cursing all
00:04:44others, calling them communists, pro-communists or
00:04:48some kind of traitors, and in this way he is constructing a completely new
00:04:52world that America has not yet seen.
00:04:56Congressional elections are approaching and Americans are clearly
00:04:58dissatisfied with the current
00:05:00the world, economic situation, or are we witnessing
00:05:03a situation where domestic
00:05:05how many political interests begin to determine decisions on
00:05:08the survival of another state, because we also hear
00:05:12Trump's demands to change the Ukrainian
00:05:14president? Well,
00:05:18he thinks that by asking Putin for 3,000
00:05:21tons of diesel this month,
00:05:24that will change American
00:05:27prices strongly, sufficiently
00:05:30strongly, he is deeply mistaken. The United States itself
00:05:33exports about five million barrels
00:05:36of diesel per year, they are one of
00:05:40the largest exporters, and this is just business, buying
00:05:43cheaper, selling more expensive, nothing more than
00:05:47speculation. The probability that this will help him solve
00:05:50domestic problems is close to zero, but he probably doesn't
00:05:54worry much about the Republican Party.
00:05:57The only thing that worries him is his personal
00:06:00security and his family's security, he will take care of
00:06:03them. Well, and he has some
00:06:06fantasies, listening to nothing else, and those
00:06:09fantasies, in his opinion, should lead somewhere. And
00:06:12that into his imagined world, he
00:06:15fantasizes that he has already won the war against Iran, he
00:06:18fantasizes that peace has arisen between Russia and
00:06:22Ukraine in the energy
00:06:25sector, he fantasizes that he has
00:06:28ended eight or nine eight or nine
00:06:31wars, well, he lives in such a space, and
00:06:34the surrounding people, most importantly, that the surrounding services that help
00:06:38him, every day and every moment they flatter him in this
00:06:42his... irrationality and that destroys the world
00:06:45order. Professor, what do you think is more
00:06:48dangerous, Trump's deal with Putin,
00:06:52or the fact that such decisions are becoming normal?
00:06:56I think that this Trump
00:06:58deal with Putin is just the tip of the iceberg.
00:07:02Obviously, for such a trifle, no one would have negotiated,
00:07:06to begin with, this month, when the elections will be determined by these 300,000, as I already
00:07:10mentioned. barrels of nothing,
00:07:13diesel will mean nothing, change nothing,
00:07:17but most likely he has bigger agreements,
00:07:21more significant, much further
00:07:24reaching, and Ukraine in this place is just
00:07:28an obstacle, by the way, the European Union is also an obstacle, undoubtedly,
00:07:32that after Ukraine, the European Union will also suffer from
00:07:36America, ways will be sought to harm it, to dismantle
00:07:39it, and to use internal
00:07:42contradictions within the European Union.
00:07:45But when Russia is encouraged for its aggression, and
00:07:49Ukraine is forced to explain and justify why it
00:07:53defends itself, isn't a precedent
00:07:56being formed where the stronger
00:08:00imposes its will on the weaker, and
00:08:03what does that say about international law, about
00:08:07international order? One should read those thinkers
00:08:11and philosophers who surround Trump
00:08:14or the so-called MAGA movement, they all say
00:08:17the same thing, that the strongest, smartest, and
00:08:20richest must survive. An incredibly cynical view
00:08:24of the remaining democracy and its self-organization methods,
00:08:28and Trump represents this cynical view,
00:08:31for him, in fact, his personal
00:08:34income and pleasant conversations with
00:08:38Putin are much more important than hundreds or thousands
00:08:42of peaceful Ukrainian residents who
00:08:45died at that time, and they don't care about him at all, just as Putin probably
00:08:49doesn't care about his soldiers dying on the front
00:08:52line. Thus, two cynical individuals
00:08:55meet and enjoy conversations.
00:08:59Professor, briefly, because time is up, but
00:09:01from this situation, from
00:09:05such behavior of the United States president, are others
00:09:07learning, I mean Chinese,
00:09:11North Korean leaders?
00:09:13"Well, I don't think China and North Korea will be as
00:09:17cynical as Trump, they still
00:09:20do not represent that, let's say, oligarchic or
00:09:23corrupt capitalism, both
00:09:25these, North Korean and Chinese leaders, are still
00:09:29Communist Party or local,
00:09:32Korean or not, party
00:09:36implementers, they have a certain different vision of the world and probably
00:09:40deeply despise Trump in their hearts." but
00:09:43on the other hand, they would gladly want to
00:09:45use him. Professor of Vytautas Magnus University,
00:09:49Mr. Mažeikis, thank you for being
00:09:52with us. In four days, Ukrainian drones
00:09:55damaged three data centers of the Russian Google,
00:09:59called technology giant Yandex, disrupting
00:10:02services for millions of users. In Russia, there were
00:10:05problems communicating with taxis, ordering food, using payment
00:10:08systems, and artificial intelligence services. Meanwhile,
00:10:11on social networks, internet users rejoice that after
00:10:15Ukrainian strikes, almost overnight Russian
00:10:19bots disappeared. Internet site monitoring data, in
00:10:22fact, shows a sharply reduced automated Yandex
00:10:26network activity, although this does not yet prove that Kremlin propaganda
00:10:30bots have disappeared. Information security expert Vytautas Krekys
00:10:33in the studio, good afternoon, good afternoon, what do we know about
00:10:36Russian bot
00:10:40centers in general? First of all, one should understand what these bot
00:10:44centers and bot farms are. These are usually unauthorized
00:10:47state- sponsored
00:10:50organizations that operate for state purposes.
00:10:55And those three goals are such that it
00:10:58is either the manipulation of the political
00:11:01environment, the indoctrination of certain
00:11:04narratives, and
00:11:07fraud. Bot farms earn directly from fraud, and from the first two
00:11:10they probably have to get some subsidies from states, so one way or
00:11:14another, such bot centers can operate
00:11:17only in such shadowy states as
00:11:21Russia, China, North Korea, of course
00:11:24and... "in those countries where the standard
00:11:27of living is low, such centers can also
00:11:30operate, it is worth remembering that
00:11:34in 2025, one bot center was also shut down
00:11:37in Lithuania, in Latvia, 5,000
00:11:41bots were caught in one criminal
00:11:45investigation, and
00:11:48the fact that Yandex data centers were damaged
00:11:52does not yet confirm that bot farms are also..."
00:11:55destroyed, it can be assumed that Yandex data
00:11:58centers act as servers that helped those
00:12:02bot farms to mediate, because for a bot farm, the main
00:12:06requirement is that it must have thousands, hundreds of thousands
00:12:09of mobile phones or their SIM cards. As far
00:12:13as I have visited data centers, of course, this happened in Lithuania, not
00:12:16in Russia, but I have not seen
00:12:20such infrastructure where hundreds
00:12:24of thousands of mobile phones would be connected. But what
00:12:27does it mean if Ukraine hits or not, because that is seemingly a fact, we see
00:12:31images of hits on data centers,
00:12:35and you say that well, servers there can
00:12:39be damaged and therefore disruptions occur
00:12:42in bot farms, how does
00:12:45all this look in practice on social networks, because there is really
00:12:48a lot of rejoicing that well, overnight they disappeared and
00:12:52internet users write simple
00:12:55questions that used to provoke them a lot and say,
00:12:59look, no one comes running and starts educating and
00:13:02well yes, indeed from the internet today
00:13:06we see a decrease in those grannies with flowers or with
00:13:09kittens, their activity has significantly dropped, especially this is
00:13:13visible in Telegram channels, because it is obvious that Telegram
00:13:17was one of those social spaces where bots
00:13:21even had their own separate networks and
00:13:25only a rare living person could get in
00:13:28there and, having entered, would not understand what kind of bubble he
00:13:31was in, what kind of bubble he found himself in, but I repeat that
00:13:35it is not confirmed and Yandex itself, of course, it does not guarantee
00:13:39and will never officially say that here in one of our data
00:13:42centers there was a bot farm and it is now destroyed, they confirmed
00:13:46only one data center's destruction, the other two
00:13:50are confirmed by the Ukrainian side, but if
00:13:53for example, during this day well, internet users notice, maybe they
00:13:56want to notice, although you
00:13:59also say that in the Telegram channel there is indeed a
00:14:03decrease, how long can this last,
00:14:06if we assume that the server is destroyed, I don't want
00:14:10to speculate with terms and time,
00:14:13but I would like it to last as long as possible, first
00:14:17of all, but it can take up to
00:14:20several months to restore, I would like it to last at least several
00:14:23years, because we still need to build the data centers themselves,
00:14:27we don't know, because it is not officially declared what infrastructure
00:14:30they provide for bots, but in my
00:14:33understanding, these are mainly servers that
00:14:37split communication, redirect messages to one country, to another country,
00:14:41to one social network, to another social network, it is
00:14:44such a distribution server, a distribution machine, and the data
00:14:48centers themselves, it is likely that they are still somewhere where
00:14:52mainly a lot of electricity is needed, a lot
00:14:55of ventilation capabilities,
00:14:58air conditioning must be there, data centers are that
00:15:01infrastructure, but I
00:15:04have not been there and cannot guarantee that Yandex really
00:15:07had bot farms. You mention several months
00:15:11that may be needed to restore the servers,
00:15:14for internet users, again, this is perhaps a desire that
00:15:17restoring those bot farms could
00:15:20take up to a couple of years, until 2028, because they say, throughout
00:15:25chips are now needed, in general,
00:15:30materials and whether it is easy to get them on the market
00:15:33today, to make everything work again,
00:15:36bot farms are based, as I mentioned, on phones, SIM cards
00:15:40and random access memory. Random access memory
00:15:43is now mostly used for the development
00:15:47of artificial intelligence, as we know, Russia is not
00:15:51the most developed country in this
00:15:54regard, and all resources are usually directed to the
00:15:57state across the Atlantic.
00:16:01Let's hope that Putin will not
00:16:04have the ability to agree with China and with other
00:16:07chip-producing countries' leaders to give them
00:16:11priorities, and that restoration would indeed take at least
00:16:15several years. Thank you, information security expert Vytautas Krekys, thank you for
00:16:18coming to our studio.
00:16:21Foreign ministers of the European Union, gathered in Luxembourg, are discussing
00:16:23how to increase pressure on Russia.
00:16:27New sanctions are being approved for almost
00:16:291600 individuals and
00:16:33organizations connected with Russia's war industry. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis
00:16:36urges to go even further and
00:16:40recognize Russia's military intelligence (GRU) as a terrorist
00:16:43organization. The ministers also discuss Donald
00:16:47Trump's announced energy ceasefire, which Russia has not yet
00:16:50adhered to, the situation in the Middle East, and further
00:16:54enlargement of the European Union. I will talk to my colleague Milda Velikanskytė
00:16:58working in Luxembourg, and immediately ask Milda,
00:17:01how do the European Union foreign ministers react
00:17:04to the United States and
00:17:07Russia's, or rather, one should say Trump's and Putin's
00:17:11agreement on
00:17:12diesel?
00:17:15Hello Rasa, good afternoon LRT Television viewers, well, in fact, it can be said that
00:17:19there are no very emotional, resonant reactions, they are very
00:17:22restrained and probably that
00:17:26assessment should be looked at from two
00:17:30components, that is, first of all, about the agreement itself, about
00:17:34its content, that Russia will supply diesel.
00:17:37So, here the foreign ministers, if they
00:17:43they doubt that it will have
00:17:46a direct impact on fuel
00:17:48prices, petrol stations, the fuel market in general, and at the same time
00:17:52they say that it is probably more directed at United
00:17:55States domestic politics, because midterm elections are approaching,
00:17:59and precisely with that in mind, the United
00:18:02States president made that agreement and one should not
00:18:06look for a choice
00:18:09of sides in the war in Ukraine and so on. The other
00:18:12component would be precisely that the United
00:18:16States president decided to cooperate with
00:18:20Vladimir Putin and to talk and negotiate,
00:18:23so here there are no emotional reactions,
00:18:27no condemnation, no loud indignation, at least
00:18:30publicly, at least on camera, and what the foreign
00:18:34ministers talk about is that this is not the first time that the United
00:18:37States and specifically President Donald Trump's
00:18:41positions fluctuate, sometimes he seems to lean more
00:18:44towards Vladimir Putin's side, sometimes
00:18:48one gets the impression that he is inclined to support
00:18:51Volodymyr Zelensky, so they say, well, this is not the first time and
00:18:55most likely not the last time that these
00:18:58fluctuations are seen, and as Kęstutis Budrys, the Lithuanian foreign
00:19:02minister says, well, in his assessment, this is not
00:19:05the worst that we have seen in the last two
00:19:08years, but he notes that the
00:19:12lack of coordination of actions between Europe and
00:19:15the United States weakens Western positions, but we can
00:19:19listen to a few
00:19:21comments.
00:19:25The United States are our biggest allies, but our
00:19:28message is clear: if we want to end this war, the only way
00:19:32is to pressure Russia, therefore we call on the United States to apply
00:19:36sanctions to all. If there were no processing plants attacking, they
00:19:40would not be needed if the war was over. We have seen more than one
00:19:43rise and such a diplomatic decline
00:19:46in the path between the US, Ukraine and the US
00:19:50role in such changes, let's say,
00:19:53both being more in the middle, and being more towards
00:19:55Ukraine, and speaking about all efforts to find
00:19:59peace, well, this last episode is not what
00:20:03we have seen, let's say, the worst, in almost
00:20:06two years. And we can truly regret it, because it
00:20:10does not help to achieve a coordinated European and
00:20:13United States policy in the field
00:20:16of sanctions against Russia.
00:20:20Let's look at ourselves: the European Union was the first to remove two important
00:20:23oligarchs, some of the biggest supporters of the Putin regime, from the sanctions
00:20:27list. Therefore, before criticizing others, the European Union
00:20:30needs to look in
00:20:31the mirror.
00:20:35Indeed, the sanctions that the ministers are
00:20:39approving today are the largest list
00:20:42of individuals and organizations
00:20:45to date, 1600. How effective
00:20:48is it?
00:20:52"Yes, that's exactly what everyone emphasizes, that never before
00:20:56have so many been included in the sanctions list at once, and
00:20:59despite the fact that two oligarchs were removed in
00:21:02September, which the Lithuanian Foreign Minister also
00:21:06called a regrettable step, he said that on the other
00:21:09hand, the countries that opposed the removal benefited from
00:21:12this, because now this sanctions
00:21:16list is being approved
00:21:18for three years." Not for six months, and then meeting again every six months
00:21:22to extend it, but for 36 months, and that
00:21:26is indeed a victory. Of those 1600
00:21:29individuals that the ministers must approve today, as you Rasa and
00:21:33mentioned, mainly representatives of the Russian
00:21:36military industry dominate, both natural and legal persons,
00:21:40drone manufacturers, as well as those who participated
00:21:44in organizing sham elections in the occupied
00:21:47territories of Ukraine, in the Russian Duma. Elections in those
00:21:50territories, those individuals will not
00:21:54be allowed to enter the territory of the European Union,
00:21:57their assets here will be frozen, and it is also desired
00:22:01to restrict or completely disconnect them from the international
00:22:04payment system, but some member states say
00:22:08that's not enough, we shouldn't stop here, we need to move forward
00:22:12and exert as much pressure
00:22:15as possible on Russia. We can listen to the German
00:22:17minister.
00:22:20"Every euro, every dollar that flows into Putin's Russian treasury through energy purchases
00:22:24will be used by Russia to produce and
00:22:28use new weapons against Ukraine.
00:22:31"
00:22:35But here's such, let's say, a sad paradox, probably, how
00:22:38sometimes words differ from actions, because
00:22:41the media just last week reported that
00:22:44during the first nine months of this year, the European
00:22:48Union imported a record amount of liquefied
00:22:51natural gas from the Russian Arctic program,
00:22:55almost more than 12 million tons, and for those
00:22:5912 million tons, the European Union paid Russia
00:23:03approximately eight billion euros. So, on the one hand, we
00:23:07talk about the need to pressure Russia, every
00:23:10euro goes towards producing weapons against
00:23:13Ukraine, on the other hand, we import liquefied natural
00:23:17gas, because here we need to remember that
00:23:20pipeline imports are already banned, and specifically
00:23:23the import of liquefied natural gas will be banned from
00:23:26January 1, 2027. So, countries
00:23:29are rushing and trying
00:23:55In Poland, a man around 60 years old was detained, suspected
00:23:58of preparing an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Officials learned
00:24:01about the possible attack after receiving a report that the Polish defense
00:24:05minister might be in danger. According to media
00:24:08reports, firearms may have been used in the attack,
00:24:12but officials have not yet confirmed this. Who and why
00:24:16might have planned the assassination is also still being investigated.
00:24:19Colleague, baitė in the studio, good day, hello, what exactly
00:24:22is known, Indre? Very little is actually known,
00:24:26from yesterday, practically there are only
00:24:28isolated news, of course, how everything more or less happened, that
00:24:32at 7:00 AM Tusk was informed about
00:24:35the possible threat, at 11:00 AM a special
00:24:38meeting was convened, which was attended by police, as well as high-ranking officials.
00:24:42security service and internal intelligence
00:24:45officials, around five o'clock, and here we are talking about Polish time, the person
00:24:49you already mentioned, a man between
00:24:5260-70 years old, was detained. It is stated that he is a Polish
00:24:55citizen. Officials say that he was found
00:24:58by analyzing social networks and the wider
00:25:01internet. It was discovered, it is said,
00:25:04very radical statements, that he belonged to
00:25:08certain radical groups in social
00:25:11networks, and that is how he was found. Searches were conducted at his
00:25:15home and it is also said that other actively operating
00:25:18individuals in those groups are also being checked. So, in essence,
00:25:22that's all the specific news. Various variants are being investigated.
00:25:26Local journalists, which is an interesting detail, we see how
00:25:29quickly everything happened, from the first report and informing the prime minister
00:25:33to the arrest. But local journalists noted that very
00:25:37serious language was used both by the
00:25:40police and other services, as well as by the
00:25:43prime minister himself, that it was even said a mortally serious
00:25:47threat, that it was believed that... there really is that
00:25:50threat, so it creates such an image, at least
00:25:53for us who don't know more details, that it was really
00:25:57assessed that the threat is high-level. True,
00:26:00the prime minister did not participate in it on Sunday.
00:26:02In another meeting, he had stayed and was in Warsaw, so
00:26:06it was not noticed that there would be more security, for example, staff around
00:26:09him. There was the same security as
00:26:12always, so it did not affect the agenda, the meeting
00:26:16still took place and the meeting also discussed
00:26:19radicalization and violence experienced by
00:26:23Poland last week in schools. But that threat
00:26:26seems to have been carefully considered. Of course,
00:26:29the question, knowing Poland, knowing its
00:26:32Ukraine, or is it suspected that it is somehow related to Russia or even
00:26:36Belarus? So officials are very cautious in choosing their
00:26:39words. They say that they do not rule out
00:26:42carefully investigating, but for now there are no signs that it could be
00:26:46somehow related to foreign forces, but
00:26:49again, what observers note is that even if it is
00:26:52not related to Russia, Belarus or or even
00:26:55the conflict, the war, which is happening across the border, that it can
00:26:59have a certain influence on people who might be
00:27:02also susceptible to those threats related to the war and
00:27:06rising various hybrid threats, so that it
00:27:10can affect their perception and support
00:27:13for Ukraine, for example. You mentioned that officials
00:27:17are carefully choosing their words when talking about this still
00:27:21ongoing incident, but still, probably the main
00:27:24versions in the same media or at least
00:27:28the news about those radical groups
00:27:31are... what specifically
00:27:35could they have been dissatisfied with,
00:27:38in other words, is it more related to domestic or
00:27:41foreign policy? In the media, as far as I have read
00:27:45Polish media, it is viewed very cautiously, because again, the
00:27:48environment, considering that for more than a month now
00:27:52there has been talk about hybrid threats, the school
00:27:55incidents where there were attempts to stab, minors engaged in such
00:27:59violent activity, I don't know what to call it, so... it is very
00:28:02cautiously evaluated. Tusk himself, and it should be
00:28:06said, that today an operation has been launched to send about
00:28:0920,000
00:28:12police officers to schools, and yes, there are more police on the streets after those
00:28:15stabbings. Over 100
00:28:19people have been detained, about
00:28:2180,000 schools have been checked. So in this whole
00:28:26there is a noticeable rhetoric directed at politicians and calls
00:28:30to resort to violence. And
00:28:34by the way, in August, a 23-year-old was detained
00:28:37for calling for attacks on high-ranking Polish politicians. So in this whole
00:28:41space, he talks about
00:28:45radicalization specifically online, that the
00:28:47idealization of violence is spreading, that
00:28:51people are being encouraged to take action,
00:28:54such a strong cult of personality, and all of this is
00:28:58Tusk not necessarily linking the attack, the assassination attempt, to...
00:29:03but this whole environment that we now see in Poland, he linked it to
00:29:06that, to various calls spreading online,
00:29:09and for example, one guy, his age not stated,
00:29:13seems to be a minor, was among those 135, was
00:29:16detained because it was found that he had created a model of his
00:29:20school in the popular online game Roblox and had
00:29:23initiated, that he attacks his classmates or other
00:29:27school students, so he was also detained...
00:29:30Another one was questioned or whether any charges were filed is unclear, but
00:29:34well, through all of this, now in Poland, other
00:29:37various threats, especially
00:29:41to politicians, are being looked at, but also the whole environment in schools, essentially.
00:29:44Thank you, colleague Indre Urbaitė, thank you for coming to
00:29:48the studio.
00:29:50And Vilnius 2009 and Kaunas
00:29:532022 have been European
00:29:56Capitals of Culture. Next year, the title of European Capital of Culture
00:30:00will be shared by Liepaja,
00:30:02located on the Latvian coast, together with the Portuguese
00:30:06city of Evora. Last weekend, Liepaja presented its Capital of Culture
00:30:10theme and program. Jovita Gaižauskaitė and Paulius Juocnukis report from Liepaja.
00:30:14Next year, Liepaja will become the European Capital of Culture.
00:30:17Latvia's third largest city, with about
00:30:2067,000 inhabitants, a port city and
00:30:23resort, will dictate next year's cultural trends.
00:30:27The theme is Unrest. We talk to the city mayor
00:30:30about how Liepaja is preparing for this
00:30:32title.
00:30:34A very large
00:30:37team has been working on the Capital of Culture events for several years now. Next year, we expect
00:30:40even more Lithuanians in Liepaja.