Cultural twists. (Za)pupo!
2022.02.24. "No artist from Russia will set foot in Lithuania. No matter if he performs in the occupied territories or not. It is time for the Russian people to think. The Director of the State-run Vilnius Maly Theatre has been informed that tomorrow I am waiting for either a clear and unequivocal dismissal of the theatre's artistic director, R. Tuminas, or for the director to put his [...]
Neutral Russians and Belarusians. Swan Lake, stained with blood
When you want to find exceptions, they are always found, such as, for example, the tax systems of many countries, or the sanctions which, for some reason, are only primary and apply directly to businesses linked to Russia. A veritable animal farm, the scale of which Orwell could not even have imagined. In 2001, the West launched a war on international terrorism and Putin became its ally. With the overwhelming support of the US, Putin finally [...]
Vartymasis (from cock)
This is what it looks like to change the name of the Pushkin Museum to "Markučiai Manor Museum", not in a politically correct unison, it is the same as changing the name of a Russian theatre to the old one (ko), and the name of a Russian radio station to "rodnoye" (native), in both cases the content remains the same, in the same language. Pushkin and his family history will remain in the museum, as we can discover on the Markučiai Museum's Facebook [...]
Different worlds
Thousands of Russians and Hungarians have already received asylum in Lithuania. Only a small part of them have left the two-headed mordor for political reasons, some for moral reasons - opposition to the war - but most of them are emigrants vulgaris - economic. Nothing new, because war is an opportunity, and the clever and the shrewd are able to take advantage of it, just as we were able to take advantage of the opening up of the European labour market [...]
