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LITHUANIA - A BOX WITH CASH

By Ruta Vaitkute · 4 parts · 13 h 33 min · English

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Lithuania, 1990 to 2026: the first republic to leave the Soviet Union, on the frontier between Russia, Belarus and Europe. A gang leader who had a newspaper editor shot became the last man the country executed. Two banks with Russian-born owners failed within fifteen months; one owner was found in 2025 living in Brittany on a Ukrainian refugee's papers and pleaded guilty in Vilnius, while the other lives under asylum in Russia, never tried in person. A business group, two parties and their politicians were convicted of bribery; cigarette balloons from Belarus closed Vilnius airport. Covers Vladimir Antonov, Raimondas Baranauskas and Snoras, Vladimir Romanov and Ūkio bankas, Raimondas Kurlianskis, Eligijus Masiulis and MG Baltic, Viktor Uspaskich and the Labor Party, and Boris Dekanidze and the Vilnius Brigade.

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  1. Part 01

    3:05:10

  2. Part 02

    3:45:12

  3. Part 03

    3:01:40

  4. Part 04

    3:40:54

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