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The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Director, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. How the intentions to limit broadcasting of some Russian TV channels in Lithuania corresponds with Freedom of Speech, we asked Vilpišausk...
Vilnius Regional Administrative Court on Friday rejected the request by Lithuania's Radio and Television Commission to halt broadcasting of the Russian-language TV channel Ren TV Baltic's programs. The commission had asked to suspend broadcasting of programmes produced outside the European Union for...
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (RTCL) decided on Wednesday to demand that two Russian TV channels acknowledge that several of their programs spread biased information. Otherwise, the Lithuanian TV and radio watchdog will initiate a complete ban on broadcasting of the two Russian ch...
Most people in Lithuania take a look at the news at least once a day, a survey shows. They use different channels to get their news from, which might account for varying views they take on events like the Ukraine crisis.
Repeated violations of the law may lead to suspension of rebroadcasting of RTR Planeta and NTV Mir Lithuania channels for up to one year, says Edmundas Vaitekūnas, the head of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission.
The Russian state's control of Russian media is well known and thus, it is not surprising that the Russian media had often been used as Moscow’s tool abroad. The prevalence of the Russian language and the sizeable Russian minorities in Estonia and Latvia facilitate receptiveness to Russian language ...
TV rebroadcaster Viasat plans to halt the broadcasting of Russian TV channels if the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania decides to ban rebroadcasting of such channels, the company's CEO for the Baltic countries and Finland said on Monday.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has recently called Russia a terrorist state. She is not alone in saying so.
Since the beginning of war in Ukraine, the concept of propaganda has become a keyword in the agendas of Lithuanian politicians and the media. The ruling majority of the Seimas and the president (together with the right-wing groups in the opposition) are taking diametrically opposite positions in the...
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania has very limited powers of fighting propaganda, its chairman Edmundas Vaitekūnas says.
Just after Lithuania regained its independence, Kęstutis Eidukonis, a Lithuanian who had completed the US military service in Panama, began to correspond with the government and proposed to create a register of ships after the Panamanian example. When he came to free Lithuania for the first time, th...
The Lithuania Tribune spoke with Nerijus Maliukevičius, lecturer and researcher at Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science. A half a year ago Lithuania had placed a ban on the Russian made TV programmes in Lithuania. The ban had been lifted already, never the ...
It is hard to find anyone in Lithuania who does not believe that Russia's propaganda campaigns in the Baltic EU member state have been growing in intensity.
Media experts say the new Russian-language public broadcasting television channel, approved by the Estonian government last week, must win over viewers with quality programming about everyday life in Estonia.
