At the end of March 2023, the Russian -language segment of the Internet bypassed the strange statement of the head of the Lithuanian parliament. We checked whether Similar Victoria Chmilita-Nilsen stated.

As reported in the news, at a meeting with the Patriarch Bartholomew, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament Victoria Chmilita-Nilsen “reproached God”. She allegedly stated: "It is completely unacceptable to us, the inhabitants of the city and the descendants of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, when God covers the imperialist aspirations of the Kremlin regime."

With a similar accent in the headings (for example, “complained to the Patriarch of God helping Russia”), media outlets have been distributed information such as Lenta.ru, Eurasia Daily, "News""Gazeta.ru","Moscow Komsomolets", TV channel"Tsargrad" And "Public news service". From Telegram channels, in which the news has become popular, we can highlight "Russia now"(328,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Leprosy"(114 000)"Special operation z"(93,000),"Gasparyan"(77 000),"The tape of the day"(65,000) and"Nikita Mikhalkov in Telegram"(46,000).

March 20, 2023 to the Republic of Lithuania with a three -day visit Arrived Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. He I laid the flowers To the monument to the victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania, He performed At an international conference on the role of religion in wars, he met with the first persons of the host country - the president Gitanas Nauceda, Prime Minister Ingrid shimonite and Chairman of the Sejm Victoria Chmilyte-nilsen.

The last of the mentioned meetings took place on March 22, dedicated to it Press release Published on the website of the Sejm of the Republic of Lithuania. As follows from the text, the conversation touched the five Lithuanian priests, previously deprived of the dignity from the Vilnius-Lithuanian diocese (subordinates the Russian Orthodox Church). Official reason - schismatic activity (they advocated the transition of local Orthodox to the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople), Unofficial version -The refusal to remember in the service of Moscow Patriarch Kirill because of his support for Russia's aggression against Ukraine. One way or another, in February the Patriarchate of Constantinople Restored Dug priests in the dignity, taking under their jurisdiction. This is the decision of the Vilenskoe-Lithuanian diocese Not recognized.

Victoria Chmilita-Nilesen thanked Patriarch Bartholomew for support, recalling that from the 13th to the end of the 17th century the Lithuanian Orthodox Church was part of the Kyiv Metropolis and thus obeyed the Ecumenical Patriarch, and the transition to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate occurred "in subsequent historical circumstances."

Further, saying that the current capital of Lithuania has always been known as a city of religious tolerance, the speaker of the parliament remarked: “In Vilnius, the word of God was spread by an expression of love, not a sword. Therefore, we, the inhabitants of Vilnius and the descendants of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, consider it absolutely unacceptable that the imperialist goals of the Kremlin regime be masked to the will of God. I told his Holiness that it was in this world that we see the position of the Lithuanian Orthodox. ”

Thus, Chmilita-Nilesen did not talk about God, “covering the imperialist aspirations of the Kremlin regime,” and did not complain about the creator of the Patriarch. Her thought - consciously or not - was translated incorrectly. The politician said that the Russian political regime masks its goals to the will of the Lord, covers it. Similar thought expressed And the patriarch himself during his visit to Lithuania.

Many Russian sites and Telegram channels, citing the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, referred to the publication of a news agency BaltNews. Indeed, as the analysis of “verified”, this media was the first to distribute the incorrect version of the translation of the words by Chmilita-Nilesen in his Telegram channel.

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