Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry proposes barring Russians from entering the country for public events if they have not expressed support for Ukraine

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry proposed not allowing Russians and Belarusians into the country for public events if they have not expressed support for Ukraine.

According to the ministry’s proposal, Russians and Belarusians who want to come to Lithuania to hold educational, cultural, or sports events would be required to sign a declaration condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and expressing support for Ukraine, including on the issue of its 1991 borders.

After that, the declaration would be made public.

It is high time to get used to the idea that culture is exactly the same kind of weapon as “Zircons” or “Shaheds.”

Russian culture especially, steeped from the outset in savage lies and a “special path.”

It was from the womb of this culture that the idea crawled out of a special “state-civilization” endowed with the right to devour “its own and others.”

The myth of the “uniqueness of Russian culture” was invented and entrenched.

This is especially funny given that Russia borrowed everything, including culture itself.

Though that is obvious anyway.

Russia has always used this swagger both to disguise its cannibalistic essence and to softly break through borders.

It is no accident that every regime, from the tsarist one to Putin’s, poured so much money into advancing “to the West.”

Now Russian culture is, of course, in a pitiful state, but “glory, genius, and mysteriousness” are expensive yet easy to buy. And these expenses always pay off.

The West, just as it did 150 years ago, is beginning to rattle and lose vigilance.

Putinism, one must give it credit, quickly learned to use culture like sweet “Novichok.”

Nevzorov

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