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Acting Chairman of the Liberal Movement and Mayor of Vilnius Remigijus Šimašius is distancing himself from the MG Baltic business group, whose vice president, Raimondas Kurlianskis, is suspected of bribing former Liberal Movement chairman Eligijus Masiulis.
The Immovable Cultural Heritage Assessment Council, part of the Department of Cultural Heritage, voted on Tuesday to recommend that Soviet-era statues, that used to stand on the Green Bridge in central Vilnius, be crossed out of the list of protected heritage.
The Culture Heritage Assessment Council plans to deliberate on whether the Soviet sculptures formerly located on Vilnius' Green Bridge should retain their legal protection.
The new chairwoman of the State Cultural Heritage Commission will look into the fate of the soviet Green Bridge sculptures that were removed from central Vilnius last summer.
Early Monday morning, two of the four Soviet era statues on the Green Bridge of Vilnius were removed. In their place, pots with blooming flowers were placed.
Member of Parliament Kęstutis Masiulis has approached Minister of Culture Šarūnas Birutis requesting to change the principles of how the Immovable Cultural Heritage Assessment Council (NTPVT) and other expert groups are formed.
