Event 121

{
  "category": "Sanctions",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Multiple direct quotes from the LRT article and visible names/dates substantiate the event as an information operation targeting Lithuanian and regional officials.",
  "countries": [
    "Lithuania",
    "Russia",
    "Estonia",
    "Latvia"
  ],
  "country": "Lithuania",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "Russia has placed Lithuanian Culture Minister Simonas Kairys, Klaipėda Mayor Arvydas Vaitkus, and other Lithuanian politicians and public figures on its wanted list, reportedly in connection to actions linked to the dismantling of Soviet monuments.",
  "event_time_utc": "2024-02-13T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "Reported by Mediazona and covered by LRT.lt.",
    "Includes named Lithuanian officials and public figures.",
    "Accusation relates to actions involving removal of Soviet-era monuments and memory politics.",
    "Estonian Prime Minister among wanted persons indicates broader regional dimension.",
    "Russian official statement clarifies pretext as 'hostilities towards historical memory and our country'."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "Russia has placed Lithuanian Culture Minister Simonas Kairys, Klaipėda Mayor Arvydas Vaitkus, and several dozen other Lithuanian politicians and public figures on its wanted list, Mediazona, a Russian independent news website, reported on Tuesday.",
    "It has emerged that Russia has announced a 'search' for 29 Lithuanian citizens linked to the dismantling of Soviet monuments and the January 15 Soviet crackdown case.",
    "Lithuanian officials are under similar scrutiny, with 25 individuals, including Klaipėda’s Mayor Arvydas Vaitkus, his deputy, 13 city council members, officials, and two historians who supported removal or demolitions, appearing in the 'wanted database', the Mediazona report reads.",
    "Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is also included in the wanted database.",
    "These people are wanted among those accused of hostilities towards historical memory and our country,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.",
    "\"I'm glad that my work to dismantle the ruins of Sovietisation has not gone unnoticed,\" Kairys told LRT on Tuesday."
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2194643/russia-puts-29-lithuanian-politicians-public-figures-on-wanted-list"
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Ru Wanted List",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "Reported by Mediazona and covered by LRT.lt.",
            "Includes named Lithuanian officials and public figures.",
            "Accusation relates to actions involving removal of Soviet-era monuments and memory politics.",
            "Estonian Prime Minister among wanted persons indicates broader regional dimension.",
            "Russian official statement clarifies pretext as 'hostilities towards historical memory and our country'."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Russia puts 29 Lithuanian politicians, public figures on wanted list",
  "location_text": "Lithuania",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_121_1763916712_7a646591.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "RU 'Wanted List'",
  "political_disruption_countries": [
    "Laws",
    "in",
    "RU",
    "about",
    "EE",
    "LV",
    "LT",
    "policy",
    "makers"
  ],
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2194643/russia-puts-29-lithuanian-politicians-public-figures-on-wanted-list"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Russia has put 29 Lithuanian politicians and public figures, and some from other Baltic states, on its wanted list for actions related to the removal of Soviet-era monuments.",
  "url": "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2194643/russia-puts-29-lithuanian-politicians-public-figures-on-wanted-list"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "",
  "Attack Type": "RU Wanted List",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "EE;LV;LT",
  "Date": "13-Feb-24",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "RU 'Wanted List'",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "Laws in RU about EE LV LT policy makers",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "Russia puts 29 LT politicians, public figures on Wanted List. Note ~150 ?????? policy makers, in sum were placed on Wanted lists now. ",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2194643/russia-puts-29-lithuanian-politicians-public-figures-on-wanted-list",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}