The Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD) has warned of possible provocations and violent incidents on May 9, when Russians mark the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.
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Yuliya Shatilova, a journalist from Zvezda, a TV channel controlled by the Russian army, has been barred from entering Lithuania.
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania will on Wednesday evaluate possible violations by the Russian TV channel Russia-24 (Rossiya 24) and decide on broadcasting restrictions.
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania will on Wednesday consider introducing restrictions on the Russia-registered TV channel Russia-24 (Rossiya 24) broadcast in Lithuania.
Just over a month after restrictions on the broadcasting of RTR Planeta in Lithuania ended, the country's TV watchdog has again received a complaint about a program of the Russian TV channel allegedly inciting to war.
The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) has opened an inquiry into the amount of Russian content broadcast on the country's TV channels.
The Lithuanian decision to ban broadcasts of the Russian television channel RTR Planeta for instigation of hatred is not in violation of the European Union's (EU) law, the European Commission said on Friday.
Lithuania's Justice Ministry has banned the use of the Lithuanian name in titles of the Lietuvos Laikas and Litovskoye Vremia Lithuanian- and Russian-language broadcasts.
The number of viewers news broadcasts on Russian-language television channels has declined by a third in Lithuania, shows a poll published by the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.
The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission has suggested blocking access to websites who have failed to notify it about broadcasts of rebroadcasts of television programs to users in Lithuania.
The West now faces bigger problems than Ukraine’s future or Russia’s plans for its neighbours. The growing threat of terrorism makes Russia more and more indispensable to its Western partners. That’s dangerous for the Baltic states because there’s no way that the Kremlin will renounce its aggressive...
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania has not established any gross violations by the Russian-language TV channel NTV Mir Lithuania and will not impose any sanctions as the key problematic show is no longer aired, commission chairman Edmundas Vaitekūnas said on Wednesday.
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania plans to evaluate actions of the Russian-language TV channel NTV Mir Lithuania, the watchdog's chairman Edmundas Vaitekūnas says.
The Lithuania Tribune spoke with Nerijus Maliukevičius, lecturer and researcher at Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science.
Lithuania banned a Russian TV channel, RTR Planeta, last week, becoming the first European Union member state to take this step in an attempt to tackle what it calls Russia's information war. However, even supporters of the move say that bans alone will not solve the problem.
The Lithuania Tribune spoke with Col Aivar Jaeski, Deputy Director at STRATCOM. Oxford dictionary defines propaganda as ‘ideas or statements that may be false or exaggerated and that are used in order to gain support for a political leader, party, etc’ Could we possibly call information which is spr...
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...
