{"id":516715,"date":"2026-02-12T14:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=516715"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:26:34","slug":"kuchynski-speaks-about-tsikhanouskaya-s-letter-to-ruginiene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/kuchynski-speaks-about-tsikhanouskaya-s-letter-to-ruginiene","title":{"rendered":"Kuchynski Speaks About Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s Letter To Ruginien\u0117"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Last year, after the Lithuanian government decided to lower the level of security for <b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b>, she sent a letter to Lithuanian Prime Minister <b>Inga Ruginien\u0117<\/b>, but received no response. This was said by Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s diplomatic adviser <b>Dzianis Kuchynski<\/b> on the Lrytas program <i>\u201cDecoding the Essence With Dovydas Pancerovas\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe are grateful for such support, for the fact that the criminal police protect us and ensure that we can work in Vilnius (\u2026), but until the end of last year we were looking for a compromise \u2014 how it would be possible to act if we fully remained in Vilnius. We were looking for this compromise, Tsikhanouskaya wrote a letter to the prime minister, but we did not receive an answer,\u201d<\/i> LRT quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there was also an attempt to arrange a meeting, but it did not take place. At the same time, Kuchynski noted support from Lithuania\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the presidential administration.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe tried to meet, but somehow it did not work out\u2026 On the other hand, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the presidential administration we had many meetings and many conversations, we were looking for what could be done. From this side, we can say that the Foreign Ministry did everything it could \u2014 we have status, diplomatic support (\u2026). And from the presidential side as well,\u201d<\/i> he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, after news emerged about the reduction of Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s security level, her possible relocation to Poland began to be discussed in Lithuania. The government\u2019s decision to transfer her protection from the service responsible for guarding senior officials to the police was criticized by representatives of Lithuanian opposition parties. Ultimately, Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s Office officially announced this year that it was expanding its work in Warsaw. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is now based in Poland. However, part of her office continues to operate in Vilnius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, after the Lithuanian government decided to lower the level of security for Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, she sent a letter to Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginien\u0117, but received no response. This was said by Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s diplomatic adviser Dzianis Kuchynski on the Lrytas program \u201cDecoding the Essence With Dovydas Pancerovas\u201d. \u201cWe are grateful for such support, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":503948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/698dc6ff3fffb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Kuchynski Speaks About Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s Letter To Ruginien\u0117"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}