Lithuania has stripped Russian ballerina Ilze Liepa of her Lithuanian citizenship after she openly praised President Vladimir Putin, the news website Delfi reported Thursday, citing an adviser to the Baltic country’s president. In a decree signed by Lithuanian President Gitanas Naused, 59-year-old Liepa was stripped of her Lithuanian citizenship, which she received in 2000. “Questions about I[lze] Liepa’s citizenship arose after an interview appeared in which she does not hide her sympathies for Vladimir Putin,” Delfi wrote. The news outlet added that the dancer “calls the war in Ukraine a special [military] operation, and openly despises the Western world and values.”
Source www.themoscowtimes.com
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