The Kremlin on Fridayaccused Lithuania of provoking a territorial disagreement over the Kaliningrad area after the Lithuanian president criticized a local museums decision to relabel one of its places committed to an 18th-century Lithuanian poet.The Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Artsrenamed itsKristijonas Donelaitis Memorial Museum to theMuseum of Literature at Chistye Prudy.
The museumhouses a Lutheran church and the home where Donelaitis lived and worked in the mid-1700s.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda took to social networks toslam the museums brand-new name as yet another inappropriate attempt at rewording history.Even though the old inhabitants of Lithuania Minor, now part of the so-called Kaliningrad [region], are long gone, the last indications of Lithuanian culture there should be protected, Nauseda wrote on X on Wednesday.Lithuania Minor is a term used by historians and ethnographers to explain locations of modern-day Lithuania, Poland and the Kaliningrad area when they were still parts of Prussia.
Kaliningrad takes its name fromMikhail Kalinin, a Bolshevik revolutionary who served asthe head oftheRussian Soviet Federative Socialist Republicand later of the Soviet Union.No matter how tough Russia tries, Karaliaucius will never end up being Kaliningrad! he included, utilizing the Lithuanian name for the city, which Soviet soldiers recorded from Nazi Germany during World War II.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov cast Nausedas remarks as part of a wider territorial dispute by Lithuania, a member of both the European Union and NATO which supports Ukraine in its efforts to defend against Russias invasion.Lithuania is a hostile and hostile state towards our country.
It ends up to have territorial claims to name a few things, Peskov informed reporters.This justifies our deep concerns and all current and future measures to guarantee the security of our state.Earlier on Friday, Russias Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharovacalled Nauseda a cardboard fool with damp historic fantasies.