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Dissident pulled off plane by Belarus gets 8 years in prison
"A court in Belarus has convicted a dissident journalist who was arrested, sentencing him to 8 years in prison. Raman protest savitch is dramatic arrest in May 2021, was met with outrage by western leaders, some saying a plane's diversion was tantamount to state sponsored hijacking. Belizean flight controllers had ordered the Ryanair jetliner traveling from Greece to Lithuania to land at minx, telling the crew there was a bomb threat against the flight no explosives were found on board, but pre to save it, who was living in exile at the time was detained. The journalists ran next to a telegram messaging app channel used by participants in mass protests against the disputed 2020 election that gave Alexander Lukashenko a 6th term in office. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
NATO announces next leaders' summit will be in Lithuania
"President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts will hold their next scheduled summit in Lithuania in July The military alliance's top civilian official announced the key meeting in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius for July 1112 as Russia's war on Ukraine fuels security tensions in Europe and the North Atlantic region Leaders are expected to discuss ways to boost the defenses of NATO member countries near Russia and Ukraine and continue their support to the war ravaged country Secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says we face the most complex and unpredictable security environment since
AP News Radio
Soldiers set to remain in Lithuania until at least 2026, amid Russia fears
"A heavily armed U.S. battalion is set to remain in Lithuania until at least 2026 amid fears about Russia's intentions in the region following its invasion of Ukraine Lithuania's defense minister announced the move after a meeting with defense secretary Lloyd Austin in Bucharest saying the decision to extend the rotational battalion shows that the U.S. takes Baltic security seriously and it also sends a message to Russia the Americans are here and they're not going anywhere The U.S. Army deployed a contingent of about 500 soldiers to Lithuania on a troop rotation basis in 2019 the forces include the armored brigade combat teams that have been on exercises in the eastern Flank countries since 2017 I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Moscow plans to supply Belarus with missile system
"Russian president Vladimir Putin is promising neighboring Belarus which also borders Ukraine that Moscow will provide it with the new missile system I'm Ben Thomas with details At a meeting in St. Petersburg the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko complained about the confrontational policies of Poland and Lithuania U.S. and NATO training flights and nuclear training and asked Putin to consider mirroring those efforts Putin demurred but told Lukashenko Russia would deliver a skander M short-range missile systems in the coming months Either ballistic or cruise missiles and carrying nuclear as well as conventional warheads I'm Ben Thomas
Bloomberg Radio New York
"lithuania" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Some of our top stories from around the world. Thanks Anna, UK inflation rising to a fresh four decade high in May after broad increases in the cost of everything from fuel and electricity to food and beverages. The CPI rate accelerated to 9.1% up from 9% a month earlier last week the Bank of England forecast that price rises would peak at more than 11% this year. British consumers will mean we'll have to foot a 2.7 billion pound Bill for a wave of failures among energy suppliers over the past year. That's according to the national audit office, the extra cost will be spread across all energy bills and come on top of this surging gas and power prices that will hit households this winter, not some will help to cover the costs incurred by supplies which took on more than 2.4 million customers from the 25 energy companies that have collapsed. And a top Russian official is threatening to retaliate in a growing standoff with the European Union. That's after Lithuania blocked the transit of sanctioned goods to the Baltic territory of Kaliningrad. The secretary of Russia's Security Council says his country will respond to hostile actions and warns Lithuania of serious negative impact. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts and more than a 120 countries. This is Bloomberg Anna. Steven, let's get more on those latest UK inflation figures. I know that our chart guru Eddie van der Walt has a special treat for us today with inflation in mind, Eddie, what have you got? Good morning, yes, absolutely. I'm looking at the ecam function on the Bloomberg terminal today, which breaks down the inflation reading in the UK, the UK CPI for us by component. And what we can see when we look at that at that chart is that over the period from 2017 to about early 2021, we saw inflation trending lower. And of course, we all know that sort of by the middle of 2021. Inflation was becoming a real problem. And that was being driven by goods and services in particular core goods and services will rising faster than expected and now we're sitting here at multiyear highs for the headline inflation print. But what we're seeing interestingly, this time around is a core goods. It's fading as a component of the overall picture. And what's starting to drive prices now is food prices. And I think most you could consumers can tell that when they go to do their weekly shop. Yeah, it's really interesting to see it laid out in kind of visual form like that where you can see that proportion of food getting bigger and bigger on that chart that goes over time as well as course is core goods in general. What does this inflation report mean then for broader markets? Yeah, absolutely. So you know what? I think the market saw this number coming broadly in line with expectations. And we saw we saw the boundary act a little bit lower. And I think that's part of the reason for that is that the Bank of England is starting to look a little bit dovish overall and it's starting to look a little bit unresponsive to these inflation numbers. And that therefore they're going to lag somewhat compared to other central banks. And then overall, I mean, the market today just being driven by that risk off theme that I mentioned a minute ago with a dollar up the power now sharply lower down as your spot 9% and I'm looking for UK yields. They're also somewhat lower on the day. You started off talking about these food prices then Eddie, why are food prices starting to increase? Right, so that's a really interesting question. I think food prices are being hit with a double whammy, particularly on fresh produce because on the one hand, natural gas price is really high. So producers of food are paying more to keep their greenhouses hot, right? All those fresh products that we want to see. At the same time, the commodity inflation and supply chain disruption last year created that shortage of the chemicals that we need to create more fertilizers, right? So the product food productions really been hampered during the last winter and the sort of products that should be hitting the shelves right now. And I think that's why food prices in particular is seeing a bit of a bump at the moment. Okay, Eddie, thank you very much for that talking us through that chart. How can we find just if we're looking for it in the terminal? E can is all you need to do? Very simple. Easy. Excellent. Thanks, Eddie. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for the talking us through the chart. It's components and where to find it. Eddie, van der belt with the latest on the UK inflation story, which is a really interesting one, and I mean, there's something for everybody in this report, isn't there because if you're worried about inflation, you're no doubt still worried about inflation. But if you are looking for those signs that, well, we won't have topped out because of the way the price cap, the energy price cap works, but at least it's not way above expectations, which had been our experience earlier in the summer. Yeah, and we're watching it straws there. I mean, there's another aspect to this story as well, which is covered by today's Bloomberg big take, which is to do with housing prices and how that's being affected by rising interest rates, another big topic if you're looking at your household bills, that's something
AP News Radio
3 nations join international team probing Ukraine war crimes
"Three more nations have joined an international investigation team probing war crimes in Ukraine Estonia Latvia and Slovakia have signed an agreement during a two day coordination meeting in The Hague to join Lithuania Poland and Ukraine in the joint investigation team that will help coordinate the sharing of evidence of atrocities through the EU judicial cooperation agency Euro just as well International Criminal Court prosecutor came Khan says he plans to open an office in Kyiv amid ongoing calls for those responsible for atrocities since Russia's invasion to be brought to justice
AP News Radio
Allied leaders going to meet with Zelenskyy
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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
The Case Against a No Fly Zone in Ukraine
"Well, article 5 of NATO basically says an attack on one member is an attack on all. For instance, if Putin rolled into Estonia Lithuania or Latvia, that would be an article 5 violation United States would be at war pursuant to treaty. We don't have Ukraine as famously not a NATO nation. We don't have an article 5 issue there. But if we ran a no fly zone, there is a very real chance we would be engaged in combat against Russian forces. That is the conventional war that you and I early in our careers grew up to fight. That's very frightening to me. Is there a lot of pressure we've heard some people talk about? And I think loosely about a no fly zone. We only have about 15, 20 seconds left. Is there a push such that we're likely to see a no fly zone? Depending on circumstances right now, no, but you have to be ready.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A Wise, Contrarian Take on War in Ukraine With Col. Douglas Macgregor
"So with this right now, is colonel McGregor himself? And I want to explore this with him colonel. Thank you so much for joining the Charlie Kirk show. Thanks, Charlie. Thank you for inviting me. So colonel, we kind of went through some of your commentary that you had on Fox News that was, let's say, made headlines. Walk us through your position on the Russian Ukrainian conflict and why you believe America should not intervene. Pretty well, first of all, I think it's very important that the president make it clear and repeatedly. That we will not intervene. He said that early on, but some of his comments indicated that he was waffling. And it got a little sticky yesterday because the polls thought that they could turn over several MiG 29 jets to the Ukrainians and finally the secretary general flew in to stop it. First of all, you don't ever, ever want to challenge a major military power on that power store ship. In the worst possible place to take on Russian forces, it's on Russia's border. It's just stupid. You have no way to be successful. Secondly, we are very dependent upon your power. And we are way behind in the air Defense Department. We have not spent intelligently and we have not created effective air defenses against missiles and aircraft for our forces on the ground. So if we went into this, we risk being naked effectively in the face of air power and then our own air power would likely be shot to pieces by Russian air defenses, even though they won't admit it truthfully they know whether you're stealthy or not. They have extraordinarily effective air defenses and radars that will track and shoot us down. So from the standpoint of the capability, the best thing we can do is stay behind NATO's borders and effectively watch if the Russians were to advance towards the eastern border of NATO, then we could repel them in all probability, but it's even questionable as to whether or not we could have managed that particularly on the border with Poland Lithuania led to Estonia.
AP News Radio
Ukraine to bring in state of emergency amid Russia tensions - CNN
"The leader of NATO is condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine at an emergency meeting NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg calls for a summit saying Russia's launched a brutal act of war on Ukraine and shattered piece on the European continent accusing Vladimir Putin of trying to rewrite history the trans Atlantic alliance has agreed to further beef up its land sea and air forces on the eastern flank near Ukraine and Russia the emergency meeting was requested by countries closest to the conflict Poland Latvia Estonia and Lithuania which is declared a state of emergency with parliamentary approval Lithuania plans to use reserve funds for tighter border protections and authorizes guards to stop and search people and vehicles near the border I'm
AP News Radio
Western leaders allege Russia sending troops to east Ukraine
"Now that Russia's moved forces into rebel held areas of eastern Ukraine world leaders are weighing sanctions against this violation of Ukraine's sovereignty Germany made the first big move announcing steps to halt the process of certifying the Nord stream two gas pipeline from Russia the E. U. is pulling back from full scale sanctions saying this isn't a full scale invasion but Lithuania's deputy foreign minister Arnaldo sprints Cabot says there needs to be some penalties for Russia and support for Ukraine including physical presence of political and diplomatic leaders in K. F. as well as to rethink our defense posture in the Baltic region British prime minister Boris Johnson is condemning Vladimir Putin's moves he's repudiated the makes good agreement Britain is slapping sanctions on five Russian banks and three older darks already cut off by the United States hi Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
Biden orders forces to Europe amid stalled Ukraine talks
"President president president president Biden Biden Biden Biden is is is is sending sending sending sending troops troops troops troops to to to to Europe Europe Europe Europe with with with with talks talks talks talks stalled stalled stalled stalled over over over over Russia's Russia's Russia's Russia's intentions intentions intentions intentions in in in in Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine roughly roughly roughly roughly two two two two thousand thousand thousand thousand troops troops troops troops will will will will head head head head from from from from Fort Fort Fort Fort Bragg Bragg Bragg Bragg North North North North Carolina Carolina Carolina Carolina to to to to Poland Poland Poland Poland and and and and Germany Germany Germany Germany and and and and a a a a thousand thousand thousand thousand more more more more will will will will go go go go from from from from Germany Germany Germany Germany to to to to Romania Romania Romania Romania the the the the president president president president and and and and his his his his administration administration administration administration say say say say the the the the moves moves moves moves are are are are designed designed designed designed to to to to send send send send a a a a message message message message to to to to Russian Russian Russian Russian president president president president Vladimir Vladimir Vladimir Vladimir Putin Putin Putin Putin as as as as he he he he shows shows shows shows no no no no sign sign sign sign of of of of letting letting letting letting up up up up military military military military pressure pressure pressure pressure on on on on the the the the Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine border border border border we're we're we're going going going to to to make make make sure sure sure we we we reassure reassure reassure our our our NATO NATO NATO allies allies allies notably notably notably the the the president president president is is is not not not sending sending sending troops troops troops to to to Estonia Estonia Estonia Latvia Latvia Latvia or or or Lithuania Lithuania Lithuania former former former Soviet Soviet Soviet states states states on on on NATO's NATO's NATO's eastern eastern eastern flank flank flank Russia's Russia's Russia's still still still blasting blasting blasting the the the deployments deployments deployments as as as destructive destructive destructive insisting insisting insisting it it it has has has no no no intention intention intention of of of invading invading invading Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine the the the White White White House House House has has has now now now stopped stopped stopped calling calling calling it it it invasion invasion invasion imminent imminent imminent saying saying saying it it it doesn't doesn't doesn't know know know what what what Putin Putin Putin will will will do do do Sager Sager Sager mag mag mag ani ani ani Washington Washington Washington
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
US, Allies Build Support for Ukraine
"EU, now let's turn to the big news. The U.S. and the EU are close to agreeing on Russian financial sanctions. That's not enough. Emmanuel Macron calls for a deescalation of tensions that he prepares to speak to Vladimir Putin. That's not enough. That's from the telegraph, and The New York Times. Where is Germany and the Ukraine standoff, it's allies wonder. The United States and its NATO allies are moving to bulk up their military commitments in the Baltics and Eastern Europe as the standoff with Russia over Ukraine deepens rights Katherine Bennett. Denmark is sending fighter jets to Lithuania. Frigate to the Baltic Sea, France was offered to send troops to Romania. Spain is sending a frigate to the Black Sea, President Biden is thousands of U.S. troops on high alert. And then there is Germany. In recent date, Germany, Europe's largest richest democracy, strategically situated at the crossroads between eastern yes. West has stood out more for what it will not do than what it is doing. Germany is out. They've just left NATO behind.
AP News Radio
NATO Steps Up Readiness in Eastern Europe to Reassure Allies
"NATO NATO NATO NATO says says says says it's it's it's it's putting putting putting putting extra extra extra extra forces forces forces forces on on on on standby standby standby standby and and and and sending sending sending sending warships warships warships warships and and and and fighter fighter fighter fighter jets jets jets jets to to to to Eastern Eastern Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Europe Europe as as as as Russia Russia Russia Russia continues continues continues continues its its its its troop troop troop troop build build build build up up up up near near near near Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine NATO NATO NATO NATO says says says says is is is is beefing beefing beefing beefing up up up up its its its its deterrence deterrence deterrence deterrence presence presence presence presence in in in in the the the the Baltic Baltic Baltic Baltic Sea Sea Sea Sea area area area area a a a a number number number number of of of of members members members members of of of of the the the the thirty thirty thirty thirty country country country country military military military military organization organization organization organization of of of of all all all all the the the the troops troops troops troops and and and and equipment equipment equipment equipment Denmark's Denmark's Denmark's Denmark's sending sending sending sending a a a a frigate frigate frigate frigate to to to to the the the the Baltic Baltic Baltic Baltic Sea Sea Sea Sea and and and and deploying deploying deploying deploying F. F. F. F. sixteen sixteen sixteen sixteen warplanes warplanes warplanes warplanes to to to to Lithuania Lithuania Lithuania Lithuania while while while while Spain Spain Spain Spain has has has has ships ships ships ships joining joining joining joining NATO's NATO's NATO's NATO's standing standing standing standing maritime maritime maritime maritime force force force force and and and and is is is is considering considering considering considering sending sending sending sending fighter fighter fighter fighter jets jets jets jets to to to to Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria France France France France stands stands stands stands ready ready ready ready to to to to send send send send troops troops troops troops to to to to Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria to to to to NATO NATO NATO NATO says says says says European European European European Union Union Union Union foreign foreign foreign foreign ministers ministers ministers ministers seeking seeking seeking seeking to to to to show show show show a a a a fresh fresh fresh fresh display display display display of of of of resolve resolve resolve resolve in in in in support support support support of of of of Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine I'm I'm I'm I'm Charles Charles Charles Charles the the the the last last last last month month month month NATO NATO NATO NATO says says says says it's it's it's it's putting putting putting putting extra extra extra extra forces forces forces forces on on on on standby standby standby standby and and and and sending sending sending sending warships warships warships warships and and and and fighter fighter fighter fighter jets jets jets jets to to to to Eastern Eastern Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Europe Europe as as as as Russia Russia Russia Russia continues continues continues continues its its its its troop troop troop troop build build build build up up up up near near near near Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine NATO NATO NATO NATO
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Robert Wilkie on Biden's Latest Ukraine Blunder
"As secretary Robert wilkie. Welcome back to America first. So we as usual, we could talk for hours. Let's just have your reaction to what the incumbents said about a Russia and a Ukraine play cut. Better. And so I think what you're going to see is that Russia will be held accountable. If it invades, and it depends on what it does. It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we end up having to fight about what to do and not do it. The president of the Ukraine has been making public statements. He says there is no such thing as a minor incursion. Is he overreacting how much of a blander could this be? Well, it is on par for this president. It's on par for 50 years of being wrong about every major national security issue facing us. And I thought about just how wrong it was this morning when this administration refuses to supply the Ukrainians with weapons that can make colonel Putin's decision a little more difficult. And now they've bullied Estonia Latvian Lithuania into sending missiles to Ukraine. So now these three lilliputian NATO members should be doing the job of protecting you. Absolutely. Absolutely. And that's what this has come
WTOP
"lithuania" Discussed on WTOP
"In Columbia 29 in Penn quarter brought to you by long fence 20% off savings on fences decks and pavers go to long fans dot com and schedule your free estimate today 9 11 With tens of thousands of Russian troops positioned near Ukraine Russia has kept the U.S. and its allies guessing about its next moves in the worst security crisis to emerge between Moscow and the west since the Cold War Fears of an imminent attack on Russia on Ukraine that is has Russia further up the anti by announcing more military drills in the region talks between the U.S. and Russia have not made much progress We'll get a closer look at all of this with Paul brandis a columnist for USA Today and Dow Jones market watch He spent 5 years based in Moscow John Aaron spoke with him earlier Putin has called the collapse of the Soviet Union which was 30 years ago He's called that a catastrophe but it was actually a blessing for a lot of former parts of the U.S. histor the three Baltic nations Latvia Lithuania Estonia all turned to the west immediately They're now free They're part of NATO Other parts of the former Soviet empire as well Poland for example also part of NATO This is what Putin fears and while Ukraine is not part of NATO It has never been on the table an invitation to join he fears yet another western democracy on his doorstep on a deeper level He really fears their openness their preference for democracy a boisterous media These are the things that are deeply contrary to Vladimir Putin's Russia which frankly runs on top down iron control deep and pervasive corruption and the silencing and even murder of political opponents and journalists who ask the wrong questions These are things openness and democracy free media These are things he fears and can not provide himself Yeah later we've been focusing on the threat Russia poses to Ukraine but should we keep our eye on the ball when it comes to Russian threats to the U.S. Absolutely Aside from being the only country that can destroy us with nuclear weapons they're arguably the world's premier cyber hackers they've shown a past proven ability to penetrate voter databases in this country though U.S. officials say there's no evidence that any voter registration roles have actually been tampered with Their ability to plant disinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms has helped to further divide Americans fuel these divisions among us I mean look Russia is an extraordinarily malignant player on the world stage This is all a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin himself That is analysis once again from USA Today and Dow Jones columnist Paul brandis on Skype The package trying to hold off the forty-niners forces next It's 9 14 If you have unfiled taxes or are in debt to the IRS this is important news The.
Daily Tech News Show
"lithuania" Discussed on Daily Tech News Show
"They made a big deal about this. You know and so people may start to be less likely to believe the next thing unless they already want to believe everything. That's bad about facebook. And i think what i would like to see outlets doing is hammering facebook on like the actual changes. They've made to make it harder for independent research to happen on. What's happening on facebook because that's where damage is being done and we need to understand what that is and instead we're getting this sort of thing of like hammering them for something that's just kind of corporate behavior and wasting a bunch of time and energy on that instead of the thing that actually needs to be fixed now like facebook is perfect. But let's hold them accountable for the things that they're doing that are wrong. Not we don't need to make up stuff. There's plenty yeah. Yeah if you went in there. People offended by when they thought they were probably dare to hit on facebook anyway. So yeah it's a complicated thing. let's move on to lithuania. What you say. Lithuania haven't been in the news lately. Defense ministry lithuania issued a statement recommending citizens quote not by new chinese phones to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible. Don't buy new stuff get rid of what you've got. The recommendation can Comes after the ministry discovered censorship software on some jami handsets. The minister claims yami want. Excuse me mitt. Ten t five g phones have software that can detect and censor four hundred and forty nine terms like free tibet and democracy movement The software is disabled on. Fell's sold in europe but still present It's still in there. Just disabled lithuanian. Defense ministry believes the software could be remotely activated while way is mentioned in the report for security flaw. One plus was not mentioned. china and lutheran lithuania currently having a bit of a domestic dispute over the naming of a mission from taiwan lithuania and diplomatic missions from taiwan usually use the name of the city taipei because china claims the island of taiwan as its own territory. And they're pretty strict about that. So you break that rule. They get kinda fight with us so that is the olympics. If you've seen chinese taipei in the olympics. That's because china won't allow them to call themselves. Taiwan saying saying goes for missions. There's a dust up between lithuania and china. And so. Lithuania is bringing down the hammer on the jammie. Ten t five gee. I don't like that..
The World and Everything In It
A Year on From a Stolen Election, Alexander Lukashenko Remains in Power
"In august twenty twenty protesters took to the streets in belarus following a presidential election. There that almost no one trusted but more than a year after that the man often referred to as europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko remains in power and opposition leaders fed lonard seek sky is still in exile in lithuania with top officials in her political party sentenced to prison just yesterday. Even though observers say seeking of sky was the rightful winner of that election. So where do things stand now. And how are christians faring. World's european correspondent jenny lynn schmidt reports in the years since protests filled. The streets of many belarussians watched in dismay as the nation's troubles faded from the international spotlight. That changed in may when alexander lukashenko forced a flight from greece to lithuania to land in belarus authorities boarded. The plane arrested opposition journalist. Remind pro to save sage and his girlfriend sofia so paige and threw them in jail. The european union and the united states quickly imposed sanctions lukashenko retaliated by releasing migrants across the border into the eu. Hannah luebbe cova is a journalist from minsk and a fellow with the atlantic council. The regime came up with this idea to bring migrants from iraq or other countries to belarus. And then help them to cross the border authorities. Lithuanian poland have reported seeing belarussian guards. Forcefully push migrants into their countries last week. Poland declared a state of emergency for two provinces as more than thirty. Two hundred migrants tried to cross from belarus illegally. Well of course it was revenge from look. Shane pick you wanted to. This is the situation. You wanted to artificially create a crisis on the border with boroughs. But luke says that means western sanctions are working. Lukashenko's recent release. A few political prisoners is another sign. Baluba cova says the sanctions have loopholes. That be closed
Mason & Ireland
LaMelo Ball Rumored to Be Dating 32-Year-Old Instagram Model
"Lamelo ball is nine thousand nine hundred. He's the reigning nba rookie of the year. He is the younger brother of lonzo any plays for the charlotte hornets. He is now dating a thirty two year old instagram model anna montana and they were seeing together in a date which is led many fans criticizing montana for dating someone a lot younger than her. The word predatory is being used a lot of these. She's thirty two he's nineteen. What do you think i'm fine with. It lindsey what are you guys. These guys are these guys yeah. They're grown men. They can make these decisions. You wanna know what nineteen a grown man. You've lived overseas lithuania when you were sixteen. Or whatever he was he's he's been all over the world he's been. I mean he's should be worldly by now now. He made a big stink in that article about not going to college. And i didn't need to learn anything there and yada yada yada so make about what you will but i just think he's having the kid who cares you. Don't let them go. Let them get married. Or if he's gonna get married making planet pre-nup but
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"lithuania" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"Well let's continue now with today's newspapers and joining me from zurich studio is. Emily is a higher who who is program coordinator of master of advanced studies at e. t. h. mediation in peace process Emily thanks thanks again for coming in. Let's start with the financial times on the front page. There which reports on biden's infrastructure bill which has been passed by the us senate in a very red display of bipartisanship. Tell us more. That's right so the bill Entitled infrastructure and jobs act which is some two thousand seven hundred pages long was indeed passed the By the us senate sixty nine hundred thirty in favor of the bills. Indeed a rare display of bipartisanship with nineteen republicans voting in favor of the bill including the minority leader. Mitch mcconnell so this bill is worth around one. Trillion dollar is and will provide much-needed funding to upgrade the us crumbling infrastructure. So for instance over the next five years some five hundred fifty billion. us dollars will be invested in roads. bridges tunnels airports rail networks The power grid broadband access and even clean drinking water across the country. And sorry carry on in on just to note that The bill will need to go through the house of representatives in order to be fully past And the speaker of the house. Nancy pelosi has noted that they will only consider this bill within the house Once it comes to the house together with an even larger three point five trillion budget will build a will include other areas including social programs and climate measures. So did biden get what he wanted. In the end i mean. How close is this package to the original white house proposal so one can consider this major achievement of any was one of his electoral promises but at the same time he does fall short of of his initial proposal and a couple of fronts so one is the sheer size. The white house proposed had proposed two point three trillion Instead of what's now agreed around one trillion and the white house houses initial proposal did include measures combating climate change on clean energy tax credits. Even expanding medicare Investments in what they call quote unquote human infrastructure and this is not included In this bill Bill focuses on. Let's say the harder Investments in terms of physical infrastructure and is indeed in the second bill that The speaker of the house. Nancy pelosi is expecting to be discussed that the Within the house of representatives that would include these other more human infrastructure investments and and this is likely to be passed are only by the democrats and not in a bipartisan fashion. Now in this time of covert. It's all about bubbles. We bubble up in order to herself safe but of course the word has another context it particularly here in switzerland which is looking at a property bubble. That's right so bloomberg reports On surging property prices in switzerland so housing in general is extremely expensive in switzerland But he has gone up A in 'em reason quarter is And there's a ubs swiss real estate bubble index That is Looking at this Real estate prices in switzerland and within this index. If you reach a figure of two point oh that means you're in a housing bubble And the ubs swiss real stayed index. The moment gives switzerland of score a one point nine so a relatively close figure to this crucial Tipping points residential housing costs when not the most in eight years in fact in the second quarter of two thousand twenty one mortgage growth has also accelerated and this is in fact according to bloomberg an international trend. So we've seen her air house. Prices go up in the. Us new zealand. Canada and sweden as well particularly in switzerland. Then what can the government do So this is a tough question. Of course afra- governments to tackle. There's a bit of a dilemma When it comes to stimulus now during the pandemics withdrawing stimulus too slowly would risk in flooding. The real estate prices even further but at the same time pulling back to heart can really unsettle the markets and lower property prices too quickly and also threaten economic recovery. So it's defined balancing act. The government will have to do in terms of continuing stimulus but trying to slowly withdraw some larger stimulus packages as well. let's cost to the new york times on get a an african story. This is about infighting within south sudan's shaky coalition. what's going on there. So south sudan. As as as we all know is not youngest county in the world heaven Becoming dependent in two thousand eleven and a few years later so in twenty thirteen Civil war erupted in south sudan primarily between the president salva cure vice president And this fighting continued for several years And in twenty eighteen there was a peace agreement mediated by the regional bloc iga the intergovernmental authority on development and in twenty twenty There was an agreement to form a national government of unity or unity. government bringing back Rick machar as vice president so this is the current context There is a unity government. And now the new york times reports that there were clashes last weekend within The party of riak machar's so this is the splm ruling party And riak machar lead as faction of the splm called splm opposition so vice prison rick. Michelle was deposed leader of this. Splm faction and Clashes took place between forces loyal to him and those opposing him and this left left More than several dozens dead in the country and concerns have been raced including by again the regional bloc that this might unsettle the rather shaky peace agreement that's in place on this infighting and of course these rather crucial in a context such as south sudan where according to the united nations some eight point three million people are in need of humanitarian assistance on currently and of course humanitarian assistance also needed in ethiopia. Where the prime minister has issued a call for all eligible civilians to join the armed forces. This is a story in the guardian. Tell us more. That's right and i should know. Piss a great for indepth is a hundred. Mueller owned this tigray crisis that's ongoing anythi dopey but indeed so the prime minister arbia who made who is also the twenty nineteen noble peace prize. Lord has made a call on all eligible civilians in the county to joined armed forces and he is called And is a direct quote. The media artists social activists are expected to contribute towards strengthening the people support for their county. And this is in the context of the ongoing crisis into in the region Where the tick raise people's liberation front and to create defense forces have retaken areas including the regional capital mckellen And there have been various clashes in recent times and now the theo paean prime minister ham is made a strong call for everyone who's eligible and in good health to join the ranks of the armed forces now earlier in the program. We were looking at china's tat actions and peers their ashes again this time with lithuania and the withdrawal of a ambassadors. That's right so the guardian reports on This quarrel between china and lithuania. So china recalled its ambassador from lithuania as lithuania has made plans to open reciprocal. Diplomatic offices with china taiwan. So spokesperson for the chinese. Foreign ministry has said that this decision By lithuania to open diplomatic ties with taiwan severely undermines china's sovereignty and territorial integrity and the so-called one china principle currently only fifteen counties recognize taiwan as a sovereign nation and lithuania is not among those countries or lithuanian. Representatives have Made the point that they just want to establish respective representation offices to enhance economic and trade exchanges as well as cultural cooperation allowing this is something we see all over the world anytime anybody recognizes taiwan. China just cuts them off. That's right an a key piece of the puzzle here seems to be really the symbolism when it comes to names and The word taiwan. So they are around seventy countries around the world that have some variations of Embassies with taiwan or diplomatic representation. But they do this under that name of economic and cultural office of taipei But in this lithuanian case they used the word. Taiwan and this is of course a major red flag for the chinese government. Thank you very much indeed amelie. I saw talking to us from zurich studio there. This is the.
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"lithuania" Discussed on NPR News Now
"I'm joyal snyder. The senate is on. The cusp of handing. President biden a victory today. Senators expected to begin voting in a couple of hours on that. Roughly one trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure. Package the bill within head to the house where house majority whip. James clyburn is responsible for getting the votes all for this scaledown package because it is partisan and we are supporting the president in trying to listener bipartisanship. But we do been lied. That's only down payment. Clyburn spoke there to npr by skype. Democrats divided over house. Democrats are divided over the bipartisan bill. Progressive insurance assurances at the larger three and a half trillion dollar companion. Bill will become law. The dallas independent school district is one of the school districts in taxes sets defying governor. Greg abbott span on mask mandates. The district says everyone in at school. Buildings must wear a mask beginning today. Bill ziebel with member station k. e. r. a. In dallas reports on the decision della superintendent michelina hosts said the delta variant surge of corona virus cases prompted his decision. He said when school ended june eighteenth they were about a hundred cova cases in dallas but health officials project that two weeks from now after all dallas schools have reopened. There will be two thousand new cases a day feel now in crisis that despite whatever forty. The governor has his responsible for the state of texas. I'm responsible dallas. Is the the superintendent said. He felt he had little choice. There's no state money for virtual classes like there was last school year. And he said the mask order would be temporary on bill. Ziebel in dallas school district in austin is also announced that students and staff will be required to wear masks. And the houston. School district is waiting for the approval of its board governor. Abbas ban is also facing legal challenge of dallas county. Judge filed a lawsuit on monday hotlines between north and korea ringing unanswered in the north. Npr's anthony kuhn reports from seoul. The hotlines were reconnected. Just two weeks ago. After a more than year-long disconnect north korean government and military officials answered hotline calls tuesday morning. But not in the afternoon. The reconnection followed an exchange of letters between the two koreas leaders and raised hopes of a thawing inter-korean ties but kim's sister kim yo jong warned on tuesday that if the us and south korea go ahead with planned joint military drills next week the north would be forced to strengthen what she called it's preemptive strike capabilities in apparent reference to its nuclear weapons. She also called for the withdrawal of forces from the korean peninsula. Kim jong has previously said that if they go ahead. The military exercises could put a halt to any improvement in ties between the two koreas. Anthony kuhn. npr. News soul is npr. China is withdrawing its ambassador to lithuania. After the east european countries said it would allow taiwan to open a representative office there. Npr assembly fang. Reports at china's move will likely worsen relations with the european union. China is also calling for lithuania's ambassador to beijing to be recalled. All this drama started after. Lithuania allow taiwan to open up an office in its capital taiwan similar offices across the world including in the us which function as defacto taiwanese. Embassies the move me. China unhappy because it claims taiwan as its territory not a separate country. China has been trying to strengthen diplomatic relations with eastern european countries. It's donated vaccines in entertained leaders from countries including hungary. But it's fat with. Lithuania will likely only worsen rising anti-china sentiment in europe. I'm only fang and pure news beijing. Gm residents on greece's second largest islander trying to save their homes on the planes of a wildfire. That's been burning for more than a week. Authorities urging evacuations but some have decided to stay using garden hoses and digging many firebreaks. Hundreds of wildfires have broken out in greece since late. July northern california. The dixie fire has now burned through nearly half a million acres. It's the largest fire among some one hundred large places burning a more than a dozen states. It's destroyed hundreds of homes and gutted. The town of greeneville last week fire officials are warning that strong winds and hot dry weather made worse by climate. Change could push flames harder over the next few days. I'm trial snyder. npr news..
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"lithuania" Discussed on WJR 760
"It was in Lithuania at the US Embassy in business, and, uh, it was a great experience. I would never traded as I learned so much as a brand new officer assigned to an embassy overseas. Understanding how the embassy works, how the embassy interacts with our military. And then, of course, how to interact with our host nation counterparts and to ensure that we have we have good ties there. Did you do a bulk of these two things? I know. You said you were airborne as well while you were active duty or was that in the Reserve National Guard component it was in the active duty was the 82nd airborne. I was in the reserves when I went to special forces training and that Tour in embassy was as a United States Army reservist. Okay, so you know you bring up a good point about, um, some of the some of the, uh, obviously, you've had joy serving in the military. You serve for 39. Plus years. Uh, but You know, there are people out there who are transitioning out of the military off of active duty right now. Maybe they're transitioning out of reserve. What made you want to continue service after Active duty and reserve. Well, there's I. I never lost the desire to serve when I came off active duty as as a little, uh, maybe looking forward to civilian life, and it was not what I fully expected. So I was able to maintain my ties with the United States Army and then rejoin in one of the reserve components. In this case, it was the Army Reserve and So that desire to continue to serve and that camaraderie that sense of belonging that sense of identity that sense of purpose and then finally, the sense of mission. You know that every morning you wake up and you have something to do something that really truly matters. Yeah, that's important, you know, Looking at the desire to serve many people, they may be transitioning now have the active component or reserve component. And, you know, thinking you know what I'm done with this, But then you miss you miss that. That routine that discipline as well. And so it's great that you're able to have the best of both worlds you can still get that is still be part of the civilian life as well through.
Wild Yoga Tribe
"lithuania" Discussed on Wild Yoga Tribe
"In the whole tradition all of the premium the breezing learning to tap in slow down the brass and and just be aware when my breath gets out of control when i start to breeze we too quickly or i lose track of where my breath even is and start breathing. Very shallow is just even that small awareness that yoga has taught me has really translated into just better mental health and loving myself in actually accepting kind of and letting things flow through me verse versus resisting them so much now and do not all this new practices For example like yoga neutra in lithuania. Even in it because it is we have yoga studios many of them. Maybe but When they talk and they practice yoga new drug. Everyone was like What's diet they don't know what the maybe this is like hypnosis or something so i said no no. No you have to try and for a no from Made in lithuania. Because i couldn't find it in the and My teacher in my meditation teacher sharing with me accords recording I also have a book About yoga need russell. Having the book written in english some yoga meditation tax so i went to the music studio and I made Track like you know recorded in the professional waste so no No that sounds or not you know. They're clear they're very Relaxing music and my work with esco. And so you know. I was using pastor against people. So therefore so guys you know like for christmas and even people who about do yoga practice yoga or yoga. They using this younger you dry and they said some of them were going to sleep with that all the time so we become quiet and you know and and again you know people Show no oh this tools you know. Yoga is a tool to life. If he's used everything then you can live so this is why just astronauts for me. It's not for life. It's part of life for your.
Wild Yoga Tribe
"lithuania" Discussed on Wild Yoga Tribe
"That you know it's not it's not yoga practice yoga. It's life even stopped. Criticize myself and doing wrong. This and bring not good enough this. I'm drink and they learning from that. And i'm happy to Recognize recognize actions that are thought that caused by changes and they feel. It's like a life i live. I'm a life you know. Because i can sense. I can feel. I can compare a you know you'll love yourself. You love every everybody everything and it's amazing and you know your love generates much more love and You know oldest community people of students who came i. I never called them students. Because we all students with all teachers and it was like social peop- of people who came With open heart to find something something deeper something more meaningful so. I'm really happy that even despite the small town and not many people but all everyone who came and stayed there was so werfel and now we're friends and we are you know going for a lunch. apiece. I was still thinking for lunch of tea. And we discussing deep things of the learning of each other and you know. I'm not a teacher more than anyone off my student teachers are. How did you find these people to join your classes. When you're just starting off than in your house. You said three classes a day five days a week. That's incredible for any teacher. It's a lot of time in energy. But how did you first kind of attract people to come in practice with you So i have many friends on facebook and you know all of those friends knew that i am in india for some of them. Were older the waiting for me to come back and teach them so. I had no big. You know issue with that especially the first month and something It was three classes because at least like three five practices. You need to do to start dealing something different and later on this was Proved you know and People were saying that after. I practiced many of them health. Like no no way. It's too difficult for me. It's like oh it's not for me. I'm not flexible Not she's soclean jong like do or no no Some of them were jets some yoga before but never ashtanga in in my small town never ever heard about the sanger so but again i was doing a different sports. I have friends many friends in the in the sports teams and like they They even more like a stronger again. We live in some kinds of When my friends tried that they love the standard. They said. Oh never know. That yoga can be So you know physically.
Wild Yoga Tribe
"lithuania" Discussed on Wild Yoga Tribe
"I said no okay stop. I don't have to search and listen to other people. I have to find it in my heart. A in the google just follow chit spiritual and so many links with war. Yoga appeared on the screen and they never did yoga before. Actually i did once. I get trauma and i stopped forever. I thought it's never would be for me. But here all the first page google icy yoga yoga yoga india yoga in there and my heart. Become you know like crazy. If i thought my heart will go out through mouth outside and all buddy was like feeling like sensing that this is what you need. And they said in my mind said no no. No you'll remember. You went once in the class and you were complaining. That you know has nothing to do is just for lazy people and you just laying on the and you finally get trauma because you're a perfectionist and if you doing a candle you want to do it at once without any breathing without so but you know my mind at that. Time couldn't argue with heart. I felt that. It's my and i be become quiet and then i started to search where to go so i put in the google youngest to do somehow also felt like because my husband was telling why is going to go to guy. Their molex spar treats and You can just relax their why we want to go and be a teacher. Just go. how fun and said no if you have to go to chicago and they have to go For teacher training and I found a picture of ludicrous. Actually also know ludicrous from lithuania. And i didn't know him at that time. I contacted him. I just I i saw that. The name of the show name is lithuanian. And they find him on facebook and just Message him with us for a picture. You went to this They said this Yoga school in india. Would you recommend any. And he answered no the home. Go there go to pioneer. And he gave me the contact for hem. Angie and i emailed him and we just read in few hours and my tickets was bought on the same day. I was waiting for that school without knowing what yoga is but it just felt that. This is my new way and so happy about that. That's beautiful. i love the whole trajectory. The whole journey your whole story of just kind of saying you embrace the flow and when a door closed instead of panicking or spiraling you just immediately sought as endless opportunities and i also really admire ruta that all the people who were telling you. Oh you should do this. Do that do this do that. You really seemed very strong. Enabled to tune them out and tune into yourself. That's no easy task. Always yeah you well. You mentioned that you you were traumatized in one yoga class one time and never did it again until you decided you know. He felt called to yoga through. I love tell you said your heart went to your mouth like you just felt it. You're supposed to to do that..
Wild Yoga Tribe
"lithuania" Discussed on Wild Yoga Tribe
"I'm your host lily allen dwayne together we'll talk about the world of yoga and we'll talk to people from around the world join us for authentic conversations about the global yoga ecosystem and will cover yoga philosophies and methodologies along the way inhale act sailed were about to die. Hello hello hello and welcome back to the wild yoga tribe podcast. I'm here today with ruta kenana. And she is from lithuania. She actually has her own yoga studio in a small town in lithuania called An has a population She said of about twenty thousand people the name her studio is so home and i i met ruta in at poona yoga and rishikesh back in the summer or spring of two thousand nineteen. I was doing and ashtanga alignment in adjustment. Chorus and ruta was getting her two hundred hour yoga teacher training certification and i was so impressed with ruta is that she. She started doing yoga in immediately. Got trained a very short time and then she immediately opened a yoga studio. I just thought that was so incredible and bold and brave and she is definitely a tenacious practitioner. And i'm so excited to welcome her here onto the podcast today. Thank you for being with us. Thank you lily for inviting me. I'm so happy. We're doing this. So i would love to hear. And just for starters. How did you get started doing yoga. What first attracted you to the practice. actually all my expedients. I call just the flow like everything in the yoga and with the yoga. It's a flow so everything started Accidentally actually so. I was working in the big oil refinery sum manager for many years. Like twenty five years and i was doing the job. I was not happy but they were so much afraid to lose my work. And i was dreaming about Someone could kick me off it. So because i'm scared to do the first step myself and you know it's the law of attraction works Either you do yoga for everyone. So i was thinking about that and it happened. They just asked me to the company without any reason without any explanation. They said just Well thank you and We don't need you anymore and my actions was wow. I was dreaming about that and it was so so fun and so I felt like all doors are open. Now unlit when this one just close and i was starting searching for what i'm going to do now and again by the accident or not but at the same time i had near me My friend we was not very close. But i was Following her on the facebook and she was like expiring me. She was doing chips. She went to nepal many times. And she back practitioner of the meditation and things like this and they saw her change of life though she Divorced the because she had unhappy marriage secret. Very profitable good And the boards and position job and she started to them. She went to To bomb i think South america and she learned how to dance and they were like. Wow i was like dallas in the good in a good way..
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What are Frontier Markets?
"As i was doing the research. I was fascinated by the sheer size of frontier markets in terms of population. Two point two billion people. A third of the world's population yet the economic impact at this point is still small only about three and a half percent of the world's gross domestic product the monetary value of goods and services produced a third of the world's population produces less than five percent of economic output. This size of the stock market's even smaller frontier markets. Make up less than one percent of global stock market capitalization that's the size of the equity market as determined by the price of a particular company times the shares outstanding less than one percent. And there aren't even that many stocks there are three thousand stocks that comprise the msi all country world index which is both developed and emerging markets. There are fourteen hundred emerging market stocks yet in the mci frontiers market and xers only eighty one stocks the countries that comprise that in. And i'll just go through the list. Because i think it's helpful and instructive to know what's there is croatia estonia iceland lithuania kazakhstan romania serbia's slovenia other countries include kenya morocco. Area bahrain jordan oman bangladesh lanka vietnam the largest country within the index as measured by market capitalization or sizes vietnam. It comprises thirty percent of the frontier market index. Morocco is twelve percent. Iceland's eight percent. Kenya seven percent. Kazakhstan is seven percent in looking at ways to invest the primary. Etf i found for us based investors is the i shares mci frontier and select emerging market. Etf i'm not sure exactly when i shares renamed it but the largest wait in that. Etf is kuwait at nineteen percent. And as i mentioned kuwait was upgraded from my frontier market to an emerging market.
The Wise Fool
"lithuania" Discussed on The Wise Fool
"I had a previous guests that ah gave this amazing advice which was basically when you write an application specifically for residency or grant. It's if you need to be able to answer why me and why now. And so if you can bright something that explains why it is important for me to be at that residency now. Then that's a really strong application. I think i know who you talk about this. But i don't band marchand is the person that said it. I don't know it's it's also feels it's very much application to the kind of residency where it's like basically saying like i have to be there because this cool it does feel like a bit of like an in crowd out crowd thing because i've applied for a few residencies have never received any of them and i always feel like the the the last kid picked at for sport the crowd but be sure you're not the last kids standing. There are a lot of less kids standing out there without getting in. So you're not too low which makes a great which is perfectly fine but the thing is yeah they will look who you are and what you're doing for them it's as important to who they are getting in because they are funded by government as much as it's important for you to go to that residency because they're getting funds and because of the people that were there before it's this is weird that american model of the capita you can say like is important but it's leveling it's each other out. I mean sometimes you are lucky. Maybe someone is a genius in writing is like. Oh yeah i will go there and they will get in but most of the times no. It takes quite a lot of time to get him. Sometimes you just meet at the party with someone drinking. And i was like oh we have a good check the like oh you should come to that residents..
The Wise Fool
"lithuania" Discussed on The Wise Fool
"The whole history. Why people went to america for fredo and to make a new life and the new light started with his occasional of the land in the mining. It for gold for oil for gases and it's like the whole history is monetize in the sentence worse than europe. It's completely different. Approach to how we understand in europe. It's always about knowledge about how like in this way near recently. They had this research based on when artists are the happiest one of the significant answers was the feedback from pierce an professionals. Because that is recognition of your craftsmanship like we can be fine artist but still sour craft. We still make something. It's all about different kinds of recognition. And of course then money comes from the grants counts as they education than most countries in europe is for free he. I know i hate you for that. Don't hate participate too late. I already had my masters. So i have three kids. I should go. But we'll but i am not a citizen. I'm still a us citizen. So i don't get the free education yet. I think norway actually kept have a fridge. I gotta move to norway. Swear everything. I keep hearing about. It's just like are you fucking kidding. Me you will fund your ev. All the arts yola organization. That's a myth. not everyone gets funded. Okay well school me on that. Tell me how what let me. Give me some context You're part of an association which does get some support from the city and the government and all that what about artists today get support. Everyone well of course you have to be decent quality. They're they're very. it's i mean. No there are some shitty artists that get funded. Yes in the one word. Yes and people know that but not everyone gets funded out of like for example during corona situation. Only thirty percent got funded. It's never enough money. It's a mythos that there is a lot of money. Okay but let me give you a little context for that. Since that seems to be our theme for the podcast context in the united sates i was living in a small town in north carolina and the amount of funding could unquote funding. That was available for artists was five hundred dollars a year but only for like purchasing an object. So you couldn't like.
The Wise Fool
"lithuania" Discussed on The Wise Fool
"Is that all. What i showed was is grotesque dead body so in that case people loved it. It was only paying. It was all in beautiful colors so they built the color was called millennial pink so there was is beautiful sculptures of the floor leaking different kind of bodily fluids so they were almost coached. Like burn victims concede the insides but yet in those kinds of objective. Things that you go in see inside the bank that's an exhibition talking about something like critique towards the capitalism and it's inside the bank it has this reflection on its own indeed. Yeah i mean. A lot of artists have done reactionary work to things that occur in their life or in their time periods so that that's very of the time these days with the increased in in the wealthy being wealthier and the poor being poor or so. Yeah so in that sense. It's coming back to the answering. The questions like the statement does work when the work is doing. Its job the messages behind it. Then it can be anywhere in. It can be whatever as long as it does the translates correctly. But i would take a wager that that work would have less impact. Let's say in an art gallery than it does in a bank because they in a bank. It's it's literally turning capitalism on your face while you're sitting there dealing with money versus a sterile white cube gallery depends what kind of gallery. I'm yeah. I'm picturing a nice chelsea gallery in new york. You know white maybe some steel steel girders that kind of stuff fate minimalist because what they like. Commodore is in general. It's a space that takes away the context it beautifies thinks but if you think about the contemporary art world Artist usually reflect on that a lot like you can like it can be an empty space but you still lurking or one of the most dominant galleries commercial galleries. So you can't take away that knowledge so despite the space being empty can still have an impact what it does and then that same exhibition could be in the bank but also it can have same amount of message being inside the white cube. It's right and how you were conceptualize. The.
The Wise Fool
"lithuania" Discussed on The Wise Fool
"Could you please pronounce your name correctly. For so my name is pronounced civil. A kovalevsky and for their shortened version is safer. And you're a currently. I see you do many things. You're one of those like hyphenated people much like myself that does many different things to sort of cobbled together a living. So what is it. You're doing maybe right now and also for that matter. Where are you right now. 'cause i know you go between lithuania and norway and possibly somewhere else i don't know so what are you doing these days and where you residing so. I'm currently resident in terms in norway above the arctic circle where i work as full time curator at trump soho art association which is also the trump. Oh center for contemporary arts..
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Leading Saints Podcast
"lithuania" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"End in a positive direction. Or we're having a second wave. What the goal We have six percent positive Response to all the tests. They do so for for small country like us. We have about five hundred cases a day so we have already seeing some easy. On how for example we were supposed to mascola time on the street now At least you go without the street only go to the shelf or anything like that led church. Unfortunately steel closed meetings interesting while hopefully things head towards the positive direction here for all of us that we can be back as insane snow physically later but as we do these how i lead interviews i typically ask you to put together a list of leadership principles do you serve By and so this leads to grade two anecdotes stories that That we can learn from so the first one he put. Here's care more about the lord with the lord will think versus what people will think. How's that been made manifest in your service branch prison. Wanna serve people of course in you wanna do. What's the best for them. But i learned that you cannot be. It's not my goal to be favorite. You know it's not my goal to be a but people would say all she been so good to president to me or anything else. I learned that the the most important Laura things of me rather than what people think of me and interestingly enough i would say that you know the heart thing and the back side of the moon or dark of the calling. Is that when you have to have a disciplinary. Councils are the things which are not pleasant than some things you have to go through and the but those things those meetings i always come out with a headache and totally exhausted. But i think this is also shows that this always been a good experiences for me and then those meetings When we gather together as leaders we sometimes really need to wrestle with the lord to find out the decisions because you know we come a screen. Digital's we come with a certain opinion. We come with certain possible outcome of the meeting to this though when we win winter and when we learn from each other we see that have three different approaches. And that's the time when we have to totally put aside what we say and tried to find out what the lord thinks and how he wants to proceed and I i learned this principle very well. Once i remember very clearly was so overwhelmed. There were so many emails annual reports so many things to do that. I just basically switched off the phone. I demand for any single email. And i was just like solar weld. I just i just let it flow. I learned that the church didn't fall apart. Nothing nothing happened. You know i learned. This is his church. And i'm just. I'm blessed to surf him. I'm blessed to lead the people. He trusted me. But it doesn't mean that i do it. He does it all the time. So if i can follow his will if i can at the end of the day what the day was if it can go knowing that i have done the best i knew how to do than the best. According to what i felt. This is where. I found my comfort in the tough decision. The moments of being a branch president. I appreciate that just real sense of the overwhelming and it can just pile on some days where you think you can. You can barely breathe. You know there's so much coming at you and so just to step back. They cut off a correspondence for a time. Just to catch your breath right. The assess the knicks principally is never complain commodity. Gotta complain a little bit right off. This is this is. this is my first time. I've been called to the branch Been complaining a lot but this is a really a new principal for me and something learned very recently in also which helped me. When i was studying the book of mormon i found this principle. And i learned this principle to honestly absolutely honest with you from Great mission of great leader. We had from ukraine president bush's goal imagine mission president. I think this is the even harder calling the brench prison because he has to deal with a mysterious and we know how missionaries are hall. I was missionary. But you're but he also acting as a stake president so after three years serving as mission president due to the covid to continue serving that cali and he had another calling topo there a presidency. And i call him analysis sympathizing with immense saying. I truly understand how hard it is. And he showed an example in the scriptures. Were were speak about three fights or john. The beloved only others had a very good Desire they wanted to serve and then come to the law but those were different because when their time was ended they continued to serve so for me. This was you know. I will never complain about that. I have to serve for another year or two or three because previously after certain amount of time you start to meet with district presence like hey do you have anybody you know you a replacement way authority have any ideas and you start to put that seed into his thought. But i thought of this time. I will not. I will not become complaint and i looked Learn to Of deadpool unity to grow for me. Of course. I complain if us my wife and she will issue. That's the person you can complain. It's the lord than the new life and then when you but the people. I mean the people should feel the end should know how to rejoice in the gospel. I think it's been very a topic for us to to rejoice in our calling. In if we are not rejoicing than We need to reevaluate them to see we do wrong. And when you sign joy in service when you find joy no being tired at the end of the day and when you wanna complain anymore you just again you understand that this is the this is the biggest mistake when you start the thing. I have done something right now. I've never done anything. This is the lord and this is his work we just merely held seeing what he's doing with us and through us to other people that's great. I love that refocusing on on the true purpose in the glory at truly resides in this work. And also recognizing that you know like you never ever complain but complaining in the rights. People in the right context rather than is openly. So that's awesome. Knicks put is training youth or training your replacement. I would imagine in a place like your our the churches maybe much younger compared to other places in the world and from your year history in leadership. I'm sure a great leader in and do these things but there's not many people to go around the pass these calling soon. So how have you found effective in in training upcoming leaders or even the youth so the in the future in lithuania. They have some some great leaders. Ready and willing. I think this is golden kimball who says inspiration relation relations. You know in there is sometimes you you notice that the small churches said like this. You have certain families who can allow always they're always changing changing callings. But for me. I've been given an opportunity to serve at the very young age. I don. I was sixteen when i was called to the district presidency as a counselor to the district president and he was a very wise Senior couple missionaries who was serving and He trusted me. She trusted me. So that i remember very clearly led to one day Prison hiring was visiting lithuania. And he says you cannot translate for hiring and looking back. I know that he could beat up any other person or so. Many people who are speaking english so much better than i am who could have done the same things will do better but he wanted this experience from especially for me and this was one of my great spiritual experiences because i was able to translate for presidenial and i remember sending.
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"And here with denise gravel juice. Did i say right close enough very deals and actually do have much practice it just but the green juice denise screen avid use. Now you are in lithuania and you'll have to new to abolish. I'm such an ignorant america. And there's probably things. I should know about lithuania. You know the culture the language. Whatever it is and i'm going to be the real and say i don't know much but that's why you're here to help us out. So just maybe give us a rundown of of you and your experience in the church from the callings. You've held Maybe gives a summary of what the church is like in lithuania cliff. area and the it's used to be a part of russia longtime ago someone's the ussr countries but it became independent in nineteen ninety three. And that's when the iron curtain fell down that's when religion starts to fall to the country and people were starting to get interested. And that's exactly the time when i got interested in the church. Was that time bali. Fourteen years of age. I was very young but our skin sale was interested in religion. But i was interested to meet americans real americans and to practice my english. And you to understand with. Didn't see any americans really the anybody else except people from you know. Use our country's yes although israeli exotic for us to conceive missionaries for the first time. Yeah but like. I said it was more for me interesting to see how well they taught me in my school because before i met missionaries. I'm sure was russian accent that was speaking with and the when meeting with a missionaries love. People saying i'm getting this little bit of american accent now. Is there anything more you dad like being you said you were fourteen in the iron curtain fell. I mean was there that feeling of liberation the world. Your world has totally changed. What how would you describe. Some of those feelings felt from from that young age. The funny part when the when though as this revolution going on that night i fell asleep on. I didn't hear anything. By the next morning i wake up. It's a free country but talking from the perspective of kit. I must tell other amiss. Maybe which exists will very happy. It was a happy place to live. It was amazing. Place safe interesting in well for the kids and we had everything with yeats. Everything was available for us but we didn't have a religious freedom of religion was not there and when the time came a lot of missionaries from different churches. Were coming to the country and preaching the gospel night desolate The hand of god that he led me even straight to the church of jesus. Christ latter-day saints at that. From the first time i met i was in. I was all in the church mostly over the my friends missionaries. But when i was baptized even i i couldn't say the testimony but with time bednarz Must more like a rising of the sun for me. When i look back. I see that. I had a lot of good spiritual experiences which led to the point where i am now. Have a strong testimony of jesus christ on the church. Speaking of the church the first few years were very good. The that's where we saw a lot of growth of the church so if we stay today we have how. It's very still small very small. We have evolved eight hundred people total in the church in. Lithuania would have five branches to in the city of illness. Among the city of columnist cliveden showed is the biggest cities where we have a small branches of the church at the moment Answering a question about the Would be to say the coincided not serve so i have never been to a young woman and relief society everything else absolutely. They're nice and so. I think it is mentioned. We've got to give a shout out to landed who originally connected us. But is it You've served as a district. President narrow which is similar to a stake president to is still a district. Are there any stakes. in lithuania. There is no stakes. Unfortunately lithuania but yes i served as district president By even had chance to serve as a concert to domitian president that because in lithuania when we speak about mission president. He's not only presiding over the michigan's but he's more like acting like a stake president for us but now we have a local district presidency in the branches. Run by the members and in that district princi- reports to the state or the mission. President of right. Yes yes yes. Ucsf admission president again. Another interesting thing. might be for people to learn about our mission. Our mission has four countries. And we speak five languages so lithuanian baltic mission has lithuania latvia. Estonia and belorussia saas part of their mission. And as you know belorussia still kind of close to the missionary efforts in serving their but we speak. there's lithuanian speaking mission is latvian. Speaking missionaries estonian belorussian and russian speaking missionaries in the mission. Bios start imagine. Is lithuanian languages. russia yes. There is a lithuanian language. Even though there is about three million of us we have our own language. Honus yes you speak. Lithuanian and russian ending lithuanian. Russian english and focus on thrill that one in for good measure. Imagine you see a lot of the same missionaries since they're not rotating through the entire mission. There they're all staying within lithuania Yes this is the interesting part. If you call those russian speaking you might serve in any of the four countries but if you sir if you call to speak a certain language which is Lithuanian for example than you are probably will be serving lithuania. This for four different cities mentioned before nice and in what temple district argument another hard question to answer because in villainous branches illness. I build a second. I don't like to divide us by the language but villains second dominant language is russian. And because of that. We chose to belong to kiev ukraine temple when the muscles the district's go to finland Temple interesting so the word in its branch that you're part of the bride's she has so the ranch that you're part of they speak russian in their services in mostly with speak russian. We have some american english speaking people and our branches who have a lot of people from ukraine which due to the situation ukraine have decided to be great. Listen to way and are very strong members. And i don't know what i would do without my hence members of the churches be very hard for us. Wow that's great. that's awesome so you've been assume you've been the branch president to may be sister. It's it's the second time in prison. That did something wrong. That i use all things. I did wrong when i was first time. Serving the lord gave me a second chance. That's great in It's been two years now. great awesome. Is everything tells me. Just the the coronavirus situation. There is still doing any in person meetings at this time of allah. Very hard topic for us because we haven't been together for a year now march sixteen two thousand twenty. That's when the church stopped and we haven't been the we never been released to go to the church meeting all our meetings held via zoom so it's only zoom meetings at the moment catching and how is just in general in lithuania. The dacoven cases in things seem to be on a positive.
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