Lithuanian press: Someday Lithuanian leader will say "Forgive us, Belarus!"

Editor-in-Chief of the popular Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos Rytas Rimvidas Valatka asks why the Minister of Justice has not been discharged yet. He writes the following in the article "Ministry of Justice - heaven for new liberal mankurts": 

"Lithuania, the same as Austria, does not know what shame is. Several days ago Minister of Justice Šimašius was teaching European law and good behaviour to Austria, while at the same time his subordinates were giving the bank accounts of the Belarusian opposition activists to dictator Lukashenka."

Rimvidas Valatka wonders why the officials of justice refer to the agreement between Belarus and Lithuania and reminds about Minsk's unwillingness to extradite General Uskhopchyk, accused of crimes against humanity by Vilnius.

"This fact alone should have forced the Ministry of Justice address to the MFA, if not to the government, for an estimation. It did not. Were they in a hurry to do a favour to the Father? Was it somebody's political will to help the Father? Whose then? The President's? The latter is stubbornly keeping silence. Maybe, she is picking mushrooms again".

The last sentence is a joke based on the similarity of Grybauskaitė's surname with the Lithuanian word "grybai" which means "picking mushrooms", and her hobby to pick mushrooms.

Another Lietuvos Rytas journalist Alexandras Zibas also sharply criticizes Dalia Grybauskaitė, comparing today's situation with the events which took place 20 years ago, when Lithuania fought with the totalitarian USSR for its own freedom.

Alexandras Zibas writes the following in the article "Will the Lithuanian President ask forgiveness from the Belarusian people?":

"The Lithuanian law-enforcement authorities' last blow in the face of Belarusian democratic forces is something more than a red carpet, placed before Lukashenka by the Lithuanian President just before the so-called Belarusian presidential election. This is a betrayal of Belarusian people who believed that Lithuania would support them in hard times".

Lithuanian journalist admits that the question in the headline is a rhetorical one, as everyone knows the answer. He hopes that another Lithuanian leader will correct Grybauskaitė's mistake.