The Secret-Service Incompetence
Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas announced Wednesday the resignation of his cabinet. In Lithuania, the political crisis sparkled in the wake of campaign to spot the bond between the country’s authorities and secret services of Russia.
The political patriarch of Lithuania, Algirdas Brazauskas, 72, handed in to President Valdas Adamkus yesterday his resignation along with the resignation of the cabinet. This move of Brazauskas was prompted by decision of Lithuanian popular Labor Party, which announced the withdrawal from the parliamentary coalition and recalled five ministers on accusation of cooperation with Russia’s special services.
The recent furor in the Lithuanian media is fueled by the scandals around top-ranked policy makers of the Labor Party, including its leader Viktor Uspaskich. The party is suspected of having received huge sums of money from Russia’s secret services and big business.
As to Uspaskich, he wasted no time to flee to his native Arkhangelsk region, Russia, once his party became the concern of Lithuanian secret services. The investigation against the Labor Party was a political order, Uspaskich said from Arkhangelsk, delegating the chairman’s authority to his deputy.
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