Moscow politicians are restless: wrote a letter to Francis

This time, the communists in the capital of the city of Moscow, Duma (the equivalent of our municipal council), whose faction representatives wrote a paper letter to the President of our Seimas, Viktor Pranckietis, did not miss the opportunity.

The letter annoys the Lithuanian courts, which have filed a criminal case for spying for Russia against Algirdas Paleckis, the former leader of the Frontas political party, which is currently being tried.

The nine signatories call on V. Pranckietis to “protect Lithuania from shame”, and call A. Paleckis himself “a prominent political and social figure, patriot and internationalist”.

The letter draws attention to the alleged change in appearance of the accused during his arrest.

“He looks like a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and his body weight is only 56 kilograms,” wrote members of the Moscow Duma Communist Party faction to the parliament of the Republic of Lithuania in a letter steeped in sentences of propaganda of the Soviet nomenclature.

The letter, as its date shows, was written in Moscow on April 1 of this year. The postal delivery arrived in the Lithuanian Seimas yesterday, July 13.

The best reaction is not to react.

Paulius Žeimys, spokesman for Seimas President V. Pranckietis, says the head of parliament sent the letter received to the Seimas Committees on Homeland Security and Defense and Foreign Affairs.

“The President of the Seimas received a speech from the deputies of the Moscow State Duma of the Russian Federation and became acquainted with him. He is convinced that, in the situation in question, justice can only be administered by a court whose jurisdiction have no doubts to do so. Therefore, after becoming familiar with the appeal mentioned above, the President of the Seimas does not intend to take any further action, but instead sent it to the members of the National Security and Defense and Affairs Committees. Foreign of Seimas so that they also know the content of this letter, “Delfi said in the response sent by the President.

Meanwhile, Arvydas Anušauskas, a conservative MP and member of the Seimas National Defense and Security Committee, says that the behavior of Russian politicians is “a direct attempt to influence our courts and their activities.”

“They are trying to put pressure on our courts. I think with this step the Moscow Communists support their fellow Communists, the Lithuanian socialist. Russia is not just trying to write our history for us, as you see, eg the occupation of Lithuania, but also of A. Paleckis, she is named as a person who, only an “internationalist”, has nothing to do with espionage. I have no doubt that they would have written the same about Justas Paleckis or Antanas Sniečkas, who crossed the borders with counterfeit Lithuanian passports. But the appeal itself looks like a revival from the Brezhnev days, with our dictionary long forgotten, “says A. Anušauskas.

According to a member of the Lithuanian Seimas, the most appropriate reaction to such outbursts from foreign politicians is not to react.

“Ignoring is the best way we should react in such a case,” says A. Anušauskas.

Convicted for espionage

Delfi recalls that the prosecutors who carried out the pre-trial investigation and transferred the criminal case to the Šiauliai Regional Court claim that A. Paleckis and Vilnius businessman Deimantas Bertauskas, who was prosecuted for spying with him, have committed possible acts criminals from 2017. February 16 to 2018 October 10

It was established that A. Paleckis and D. Bertauskas had met with three citizens of the Russian Federation: former officer of the special purpose unit of the “Federal Security Service (FST)” Alfa “Eduard Kruglov, commander of the 7th Board from the KGB USSR “Alpha Group”, reserve colonel M Golovatov and an FST intelligence officer whose identity had not yet been established during the pre-trial investigation.

According to the case, A. Paleckis and D. Bertauskas had to collect data on January 13 and other criminal cases related to the aggression of the Soviet Union against the Republic of Lithuania in 1990-1991. period.

Prosecutors say they collected data that A. Paleckis and D. Bertauskas had a common goal: to renew the activities of the Lithuanian People’s Party (LLP), a registered political party in Lithuania. On the basis of the agreement signed between the LLP and the political party of the Russian Federation “United Russia” to receive financial support from this party not only for the LLP, but also for the political activities of the Russian Union of Lithuania. This funding would have helped party members by participating in the municipal and Seimas elections in the Republic of Lithuania.

Officials also found that, at the request of M. Golovatov and E. Kruglov, A. Paleckis had been questioned in Russia as a witness in a criminal case aimed at discrediting criminal proceedings on January 13 in Lithuania: Russia is trying to prosecute the judges and prosecutors who supported the state prosecution, and testified against the Lithuanian state.

A. Paleckis was arrested in 2018. On October 10, he does not admit his guilt and claims that he went to Russia as a journalist because he is allegedly writing a book about the events of January 13. At that time, according to sources, D. Bertauskas acknowledged the suspicions presented to him and was cooperating with the police. A pre-trial investigation into possible espionage was launched after receiving material collected from the Department of Homeland Security by the means provided in the Intelligence Act.

A. Paleckis was once convicted of denying war crimes, Soviet or Nazi, when he declared that it was not Soviet soldiers who shot at Lithuanian citizens fighting for independence in the Vilnius television tower, but “their own”.