Lithuania’s media watchdog has blocked broadcasts by Russian TV channel RTR Planeta on grounds of inciting hatred over Ukraine.
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Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.[1] Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies, religious organizations and the media can also produce propaganda.
The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission took a responsible step on Wednesday to ban broadcasts of the Russian-language RTR Planeta channel for three months, Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. Meanwhile Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius cautions that bans won't solve the pr...
The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission on Wednesday instituted a three-month suspension of broadcasts of the Russian-language television channel RTR Planeta.
Lithuania's Radio and Television Commission will Wednesday decide on issuing a temporary ban on all broadcasts of Russian-language channel RTR Planeta in the country.
Over the last decade, Russia has had plenty of time and resources to test and perfect its propaganda machine, which has achieved an unprecedented level of maturity, while Western democratic media has been in decline, says Christopher Walker, executive director of the National Endowment for Democracy...
The European Union's (EU) institutions intend to work out a strategic communication plan by June to “challenge Russia's ongoing disinformation campaigns”, heads of EU states and governments have agreed in Brussels.
As Russia wages war in Ukraine, attacking not just military targets but also basic common sense with aggressive misinformation and propaganda campaign, information has become a security issue. Faced with new and quite unprecedented challenges, big media is approaching a moment when it will need to h...
In response to informational pressure of the Kremlin-supported media, the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT plans new programs for Russian-speakers in Lithuania and hopes to launch a program focused on explaining sources of propaganda and its methods of working.
In an effort to fight Russian propaganda efforts and provide alternative sources of information for Russian-speakers, the United States and Europe must coordinate their actions, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has said in the US.
They say that a so-called information war is raging and that we're in it. A war is a war - there are friends and enemies, military action, military logic and discipline.
Lithuania's State Security Department said on Monday it observed “increasingly obvious” Russian attempts to instigate an information war and spread its propaganda in the Lithuanian media and social networks.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Linas Kojala, Analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre. There are some voices in the West that current sanctions against Russia are not working. Conversely, it supposedly consolidates Russian society. Is there anything else we could do in terms of tha...
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Prof. Dr. Julian Lindey-French, Senior Fellow, Institute of Statecraft, Netherlands. Lithuania and the Baltic States are engaging in information war with Russia and we are trying to convince our western partners that the issue is very serious, do you thin...
The European Union will set up a special communications team to counter Russia's propaganda campaign, which will also offer objective information about processes and events, it was decided during Thursday's meeting of EU foreign ministers, according to Latvian Foreign Ministry Parliamentary Secretar...
The Lithuania Tribune/EN.DELFI TV would like to present you with Andrey Illarionov’s confrontation with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. A. Illarionov asked Khodorkovsky five questions after his key note address to the audience of the Snow Meeting and the Vilnius Forum of Intellectuals. The event took place on...
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (LRTK) and representatives of the Russian-language TV channel NTV Mir Lithuania disagree on the application of Lithuanian laws.
The Russian Federation’s propaganda and other aggressive actions in the information space have recently been the subject of buoyant discussion within the context of events in eastern Ukraine. Crucial, however, to an in-depth and factual debate on this subject is to take a look at the historical cont...
A proposal by Lithuania and three other countries to draft an action plan to fight Russian propaganda received backing from EU institutions and member states on Monday, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says.
A Vilnius court on Thursday ruled to suspend broadcasts of the Russian-language Ren TV Baltic in Lithuania for three months.
There have been two positive developments in the so-called information war last week. On Friday, Vilnius Administrative Court rejected the request by the LRTK (Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission) to sanction a three-month licence suspension for Ren TV Baltic, a Russian TV channel, to broadca...
