Lituanie : la culture, un champ de bataille contre l'impérialisme russe

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Visé par un avis de recherche russe pour "falsification de l'Histoire", le ministre lituanien de la Culture, Simonas Kairys, s'est entretenu avec France 24 pour évoquer la lutte de son pays contre la désinformation venue de l'Est et les raisons pour lesquelles la nation balte se sent aussi liée au destin de l'Ukraine.  Le 11 mars 1990, la Lituanie devient la première république soviétique à déclarer son indépendance. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 Aimed by a Russian research opinion for the falsification of history, the Lithuanian Minister of Culture, Simona Keri,

00:06 met with France 24 to discuss the struggle of her country against disinformation from the East

00:11 and the reasons why the Baltic nation feels so linked to the fate of Ukraine.

00:15 On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to declare its independence.

00:22 Nearly two years before the dissolution of the USSR, the largest and most southern Baltic state

00:28 opened its way to other countries that lived for half a century in the orbit of Moscow.

00:32 After resisting an economic blockade and then disrupted in January 1991 an attempt

00:37 of coup d'état orchestrated by the Soviet army, the young Lithuanian democracy tried to

00:42 break free at all costs of Russian influence by rediscovering its own history and culture.

00:46 But for a few years, the country is again a privileged target for Vladimir Putin,

00:52 who considers the disappearance of the Soviet Union as a historical tragedy and judges that

00:56 the Russian minorities living in the Baltic states are oppressed.

00:58 The conflict in Ukraine since the Russian invasion has only intensified tense relations.

01:03 Feeling themselves threatened, the Baltic countries and Poland,

01:07 members of the European Union and NATO, have been firmly supporting Kiev for two years.

01:11 On the other hand, Russia seeks to sap this support through disinformation campaigns.

01:17 The Kremlin has also tried to intimidate dozens of Baltic officials.

01:22 In February, Russian authorities included Lithuanian Culture Minister

01:27 Simona Keri and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kala on a list of wanted people.

01:32 Moscow accuses them of having authorized the dismantling of monuments to Soviet soldiers

01:37 dating from the Second World War, which the Kremlin considers an insult to history.

01:42 Back on the issues of this cultural battle between Moscow and the Baltic states with

01:46 Minister Simona Keri. France 24, what historical story is Russia trying to impose on Lithuania?

01:53 Simona Keri, Russia is still in imperialist mode.

01:57 My entry on their list of wanted people shows that they think and act with the conviction

02:02 that countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, sovereign and independent countries

02:06 like Lithuania, are still part of Russia.

02:09 See you next time.

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