{"id":516945,"date":"2026-02-12T22:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=516945"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:58:54","slug":"kuchynski-describes-provocation-in-vilnius-cafe-where-is-my-money-i-ll-beat-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/kuchynski-describes-provocation-in-vilnius-cafe-where-is-my-money-i-ll-beat-you","title":{"rendered":"Kuchynski Describes Provocation In Vilnius Caf\u00e9: \u201cWhere Is My Money? I\u2019ll Beat You\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Head of <b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b>\u2019s office in Vilnius and adviser to the democratic forces leader <b>Denis Kuchynski<\/b> said he had been attacked in the Lithuanian capital. According to him, several weeks ago in a caf\u00e9 a man who was with MEP <b>Petras Gra\u017eulis<\/b> attempted to provoke a fight, LRT reported.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cA couple of weeks ago, when Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was still in Vilnius, I was sitting in a caf\u00e9 with a member of the Seimas. We were talking, we had a meeting near the Seimas, and I see that at the next table your MEP Petras Gra\u017eulis is sitting with some person. And after that (\u2026) the person he was sitting with, apparently a Belarusian, approached and tried to provoke us, was filming and said: \u2018Where is my money? I\u2019ll beat you,\u2019\u201d<\/i> Kuchynski said on the Lrytas programme \u201cDecoding The Essence with Dovydas Pancerovas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHe tried to fight us, provoked me (\u2026). His intention was to fight me. Gra\u017eulis sat and watched,\u201d<\/i> he added.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that after reports about a reduction in the level of security provided to Tsikhanouskaya in Lithuania, the possibility of her relocating to Poland was discussed. The government\u2019s decision to transfer responsibility for her protection from the service ensuring the security of top officials to the police was criticized by representatives of Lithuanian opposition parties. Ultimately, Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s office this year officially announced the expansion of its work in Warsaw. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is now in Poland, although part of the office continues to operate in Vilnius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s office in Vilnius and adviser to the democratic forces leader Denis Kuchynski said he had been attacked in the Lithuanian capital. According to him, several weeks ago in a caf\u00e9 a man who was with MEP Petras Gra\u017eulis attempted to provoke a fight, LRT reported. \u201cA couple of weeks ago, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/698ebda247229.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Kuchynski Describes Provocation In Vilnius Caf\u00e9: \u201cWhere Is My Money? I\u2019ll Beat You\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516945","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\/516945","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516945\/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=516945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}