TALLINN, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - Lithuania's parliament speaker said Wednesday he would cut short a scheduled foreign visit over a government crisis in his country.
Seimas Speaker Viktoras Muntianas, now in Estonia, said he would cancel a June 1-2 visit to Finland to help resolve the crisis that erupted in Lithuania earlier on Wednesday after Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas and five Cabinet ministers filed their resignations.
The ex-ministers are all members of the Labor Party, whose offices were raided by Lithuanian law-enforcers last week over suspicions of fraud and that it was being bankrolled by Russian special services.
Its leader, controversial Russian-born businessman Viktor Uspaskich, described the raid as political motivated.
