{"id":1301158,"date":"2025-10-03T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/lithuanias-minister-of-culture-avoided-answering-a-question-about-crimeas-ownership\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:24:16","slug":"lithuanias-minister-of-culture-avoided-answering-a-question-about-crimeas-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/lithuanias-minister-of-culture-avoided-answering-a-question-about-crimeas-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania&#8217;s Minister of Culture avoided answering a question about Crimea&#8217;s ownership."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"303\"><strong>Lithuanian Culture Minister Ignotas Adomavi\u010dius, who represents a far-right party, found it difficult to directly answer a journalist&#8217;s question about whose Crimea is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Delfi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/ru\/news\/politics\/ministr-kultury-litvy-zamolchal-i-ne-smog-otvetit-chey-krym-eto-provokacionnye-voprosy-120156616?fbclid=IwY2xjawNMdy1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFyS3BqTjdZSjNEVjBoVjhNAR47e-h8GynXbYdC9i9CrST8zwfcMdI7u8XLdK_1gKuCXhsW9MHJLq9VIrn10w_aem_fIxmHTMkmn7HZPqyx1MDdg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">writes<\/a> about this.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"457\"> After the journalist asked for a clear answer, there was a pause. Adomavi\u010dius subsequently declared these &#8220;provocative questions&#8221; and urged &#8220;not to play these games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"459\" data-end=\"562\"> &#8220;There&#8217;s a limit we shouldn&#8217;t cross. That&#8217;s where we need to stop. On these issues,&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"796\"> He also avoided answering the question of what Ukraine&#8217;s victory means to him. The politician noted that only Ukrainians themselves can determine this for themselves, comparing it to the experience of Lithuania, which gained independence after Soviet occupation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"962\"> &#8220;We can only help and support. But only they can define what their victory should look like. We can&#8217;t be held accountable for anything else,&#8221; Adomavi\u010dius emphasized.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nikarahua-vyznala-okupovani-terytorii-ukrainy-neviddilnoiu-chastynoiu-rf\/\">Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, along with his wife and co-president Rosario Murillo, publicly declared their full support<\/a> for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin&#8217;s actions in the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rnbo-ukhvalyla-sanktsii-proty-hromadian-rf-i-nikarahua\/\">The National Security and Defense Council also decided to impose sanctions against eight individuals involved in the opening of Nicaragua&#8217;s so-called &#8220;diplomatic mission&#8221;<\/a> in the occupied territory of Crimea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Twitter,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/pryamiy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian Culture Minister Ignotas Adomavi\u010dius, who represents a far-right party, found it difficult to directly answer a journalist&#8217;s question about whose Crimea is. Delfi writes about this. After the journalist asked for a clear answer, there was a pause. Adomavi\u010dius subsequently declared these &#8220;provocative questions&#8221; and urged &#8220;not to play these games.&#8221; &#8220;There&#8217;s a limit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1217912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1301158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1217912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}