Lithuania's Interior Ministry has moved to strip a Russian-Lithuanian ballerina of her citizenship after she praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Baltic countrys mediareported Monday.Ilze Liepa is a dual Russian-Lithuanian citizen who performed at the Bolshoi Theatrein the 1980s and 1990s.The 59-year-old, who received Lithuanian citizenship in 2000,saidduring a Russian-language YouTube interview published last November that she was ashamed of Western policies toward Moscow, contrasting them with Putins service to the motherland.Ilze Liepas public statements are considered to discredit the state, Lithuanias Interior Ministry was quoted as saying by the news website Delfi.The Interior MinistryaskedLithuania's civilian intelligence agency, the State Security Department, to initiate proceedings for stripping the ballerina of her Lithuanian citizenship, according to Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT).The Security department was also asked to check some 800 naturalized Lithuanians for threat[s] to national security and support for the actions of the aggressor state [Russia], LRT said.Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania governments all EU and NATO members have harshly condemned Russia for its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and are among the most stalwart supporters of taking a hard line against Moscow.