Leonid Slutskiy: “The General Prosecutor’s Office of Lithuania applied to the court with a request to arrest for a period of one to three months the detained participants in the riots near the Seimas building. In total, 26 people were detained by the police. The protesters opposed the restriction of the rights of citizens unvaccinated from the coronavirus, they were dispersed with tear gas.
I would like to ask once again: where are the condemning statements from the European Parliament? Where are the calls for sanctions against the Lithuanian authorities, where are the statements of the US State Department?
Young Europeans, apparently, have been given the full right to freely interpret such concepts as freedom of speech and assembly. But if illegal actions take place in Russia and the police are forced to act without using special means, this, of course, is a reason for a flurry of frenzied criticism from the collective West. A textbook example of double standards.
Against this background, the statements of the head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, Agne Bilotaite, sound especially vivid, calling the protests anti-state activities that have nothing to do with the expression of a civil position. In the complex system of coordinates of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, they can, probably, only “express their civic position” on the Kiev “Maidan” or during the riots in Belarus and illegal actions in Moscow. Hypocritical logic.”
