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Russia has launched cases against Lithuanian law enforcement officers hearing the January 13 cases for propaganda reasons, Lithuanian political scientist Nerijus Maliukevičius said on Monday.

Swedish media group MTG's decision to sell its Baltic business, including Lithuania's television group TV3, to US-based Providence Equity Partners will allow maintaining Western business traditions in the media market, a Lithuanian communication and media expert said.

Seen as one of the most important Russian financed propaganda channels, the news agency Sputnik has so far been releasing their reports in more than thirty languages. The two year old Kremlin information project will be releasing “diverse opinions” in Lithuanian from now on as well, states is websit...

A survey by the Levada Center, an analytical centre based in Moscow, has shown that 34% of Russians still believe that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia joined the Soviet Union willingly in 1940. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Russia's decision to withdraw the majority of its forces from Syria, announced on Monday by Vladimir Putin, has analysts questioning what the rationale behind the move was. Was this practice for Putin before another attack in Ukraine or the Baltic states, or was it an even more crushing defeat than ...

A recent propaganda video, said to be produced by Islamic State (IS), names 60 countries as enemies of the terrorist organization. The flags of Lithuania and Estonia, too, briefly flash in the video, making it the first time that the Baltic states have been mentioned as targets of Islamic State terr...

After 14 hours of tough talks, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have reached an agreement on what to do about situation in eastern Ukraine, where hostilities have already claimed over 5,400 lives. However, the leaders did not hold a customary joint press conference.

The two-thousand-strong protest rally in Moscow this week, triggered by a court sentence for anti-Kremlin campaigner Alexei Navalny and his brother, shows that, despite all the effort, Vladimir Putin's regime has not completely crushed the opposition in Russia. A Maidan in Moscow is probably Putin's...

A sentence for the Kremlin's most famous critic Alexei Navalny was pronounced earlier than everyone expected. This might have been done to deflect protests by Navalny's supporters, who were planning to take to the streets of Moscow in January, but also due to economic pressures, says a Lithuanian po...