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With the Lithuanian parliament set to launch its scrutiny of LRT, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that it is important not only to dispel existing doubts, but also to ensure that no doubts about the public broadcaster's activities arise in the future.

Council of the Lithuanian national radio and television LRT decided on Tuesday that candidates for LRT top executive will be required to have a master's degree.

The information submitted to Lithuanian parliamentarians may contain shortcomings, as the parliament was requesting too many documents within an excessively short period of time, says Žygintas Pečiulis, chairman of the council of the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT.

Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), says that a parliamentary scrutiny of the finances of the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) is "necessary and inevitable" because of the "chaotic" way in which the public broadcaster provided its answers to la...

A group of members of the European Parliament have expressed their concern over the Lithuanian parliament's decision to set up a parliamentary commission to scrutinize the activities of the public broadcaster Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT).

Mindaugas Raguotis has stepped down from the post of director of the lrt.lt news portal that is undergoing restructuring.

Top management of the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT has started restructuring the news portal lrt.lt, which will be the duty of the LRT Internet Department currently under development.

The Lithuanian State Tax Inspectorate, or VMI, has taken administrative action against producer and journalist Edmundas Jakilaitis following an inquiry by Agnė Širinskienė, a lawmaker of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU).

Audrius Siaurusevičius, the director general of Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT), says that plans by Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), to make public LRT documents made available to lawmakers prove that the politician seeks to control the p...

The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union has gotten slightly ahead of the opposition conservatives on the popularity list, topping it again, shows a survey conducted by RAIT pollster for BNS.

The Lithuanian National Audit Office (NAO) intends to ask the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) Council for information about LRT's activities and risks and external audits before deciding on whether to carry out an audit of the public broadcaster.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė criticized on Monday the Seimas for setting up a special commission for parliamentary scrutiny of Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT), saying that the public broadcaster's financial activities could be probed by the National Audit Office or the Public Procurement Offic...

Audrius Siaurusevičius, the director general of Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT), says that parliamentarians have set up a commission parliamentary scrutiny of the public broadcaster with the aim of leaking information to the media.

Lithuania's parliament on Friday decided to conduct a parliamentary scrutiny of the economic, financial and management operations of the national broadcaster, Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT).

Lithuania's law-enforcement should conduct a check of the use of state funds by the national broadcaster LRT, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.